Word: abrams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first political show trial since Stalin's death took place in February of 1966. Two novelists, Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel, were charged with circulating "anti-Soviet" propaganda after they had sent their novels abroad to be published (under the pen names Abram Tertz and Nikolai Arzhak). They were condemned, under Article 70 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Republic, for "dissemination of slanderous inventions" with the purpose of "subverting the Soviet regime." Since then, an even more general law has been passed removing the need to prove subversive purpose. Sinyavsky got seven years' hard labor, Daniel five. Their...
...highest management levels. Michigan State University Professor Eugene E. Jennings, an expert on executive mobility, estimates that, apart from family-dominated companies, one-fifth of today's corporate presidents have been with their present firms for less than three years. Last year New England Mutual Life Insurance hired Abram T. Collier away from John Hancock as its new president. Gillette lost Stuart Hensley, now chairman of Warner-Lambert Pharmaceutical. Wayne Hoffman quit New York Central and stepped aboard as chairman of Flying Tiger Line. This week David C. Scott, formerly executive vice president of Colt Industries, takes over...
...Pritzker. "There would be too much conflict of interest and not enough time." That is quite an understatement. By astutely minding their own business, the entrepreneurial Pritzkers have put together a portfolio of business interests with assets approaching $500 million. The Pritzkers-Jay, Brothers Robert and Donald, plus Father Abram and Uncle Jack-run one of the nation's largest and least-known family enterprises...
...means a family of innkeepers, the Pritzkers rely on good managers who are paid generous stock options and bonuses to make them "think like owners." Still, the Pritzkers are skilled operators. Abram, now 72, first discovered the family touch back in the Depression, when he found that he could make more money dabbling in real estate than laboring with the law. Leaving legal chores to subordinates (among them: Arthur Goldberg), Abram tended to business. He bought into, among other things, Chicago's appliance-making Cory Corp., which he served as chairman until last year, when Hershey Foods Corp. acquired...
Murphy warned that "you cannot build a society on feeling alone. Only a proper blend of reason, action and feeling will build a better world." At Brandeis, retiring President Abram Sachar urged students to develop a "special kind of quiet courage: not to be driven into impulsive or capricious action, and to learn to live with crisis, since that is the only way you will live through it." Students worldwide, he said, "have been at the very heart of the greatest and most promising revolution in human history. And when revolutions come, they inevitably tear into the valuable, the precious...