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...major acquisitions, denies with some justice the common charge that he is a raider. Says he: "We wouldn't even come close to raiding, but this is used as a demagogic epithet by inadequate managements as their way of keeping their position. In a situation like Swift, which has leadership in the meat-and-carton industry and yet shows a consistently low return on investment, what has happened in the way of management over the past 30 or 40 years has been the raid." After moving in on a struggling company, Simon's first act is usually to cut back...
After the first five furlongs of the 1 3/10-mi. Preakness, Tom Rolfe was nine lengths back. Isador Bieber's Flag Raiser (odds: 5-1) was straining for the lead, with Lucky Debonair and a longshot named Swift Ruler (42-1). Lucky Debonair's jockey, Willie Shoemaker, knew he was in trouble: "I was getting into him pretty good, but he wasn't giving me anything." Rounding the turn for home. Flag Raiser was in front-but there was Tom Rolfe ranging up to take the lead...
That's the sort of tabula rasa author-director Don Owen has constructed. His ill-concealed secret is that he himself hasn't the foggiest what poor Peter needs. Nor have any of his actors. More discipline? More freedom? Less pressure? More responsibility? Love and approbation? A swift kick in the rear...
Thus, the danger was cited-but the remedy remained a "Meeting of Consultation." OAS meetings have never in the past been known for swift or decisive action. In more than six years of blatant Castro subversion-by-export, the OAS has had scores of meetings' managed at most to suspend trade with Cuba except for food and medicine, and bar diplomatic relations with Havana (Mexico has ignored the latter...
...little excitement, Coach Jack Barnaby tried a few variations in the doubles. Sophomores Dick Appleby and Brian Davis downed Gallinato and Swift by the baffling score...