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Eckert's trip to North Korea in April was his first, although he had been to South Korea in the late 1960s as part of the Peace Corps...
...very sad trip for me. I spent a long time in Korea during my 20s, and it was almost like going back to the 1960s without the hope [of economic development]," Eckert said...
...undated resignation letters that he could use if they tried to vote against him. His closest employees, according to one biographer, formed the Occidental Mouseketeers--with official membership drawings of a cowering mouse on a red carpet. But they weren't as beaten as the ITT execs of the 1960s and '70s, who were regularly grilled and even sickened in large meetings with CEO Harold Geneen...
...bought more companies than ITT's Geneen, who during the second half of the 1960s was called "the greatest businessman alive." ITT made telephone equipment, ran hotels, built homes, rented autos, sold insurance, made grass seed and rented billboards. He believed in big and swore that "if risk is a bucking bronco, a conglomerate is the best way to enjoy the ride...
...1960s The cold war and the Vietnam War feed the military-industrial complex. This decade witnesses the longest period of sustained economic growth in U.S. history...