Word: allenated
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After protracted, secrecy-shrouded deliberations, the company chose as Chambers' successor Sir Peter Allen, 62, one of four I.C.I. deputy chairmen. Allen promptly promised that he will bring "no abrupt-or even, for that matter, gentle-changes of policy...
Chairman-Designate Allen will be primed to greet that boom when it arrives. A stout, genial chemist with old-school ties (Harrow, Oxford's Trinity College), Allen is a steam-railway buff who has written six books (Narrow Gauge Railways of Europe, Steam on the Sierra) on the subject. A former head of I.C.I.'s plastics division and Canadian operations, he is also a cost-conscious businessman who is quick to criticize corporations for "gathering information that is not needed, collecting useless statistics and disseminating unimportant knowledge...
Only a year younger than his predecessor, Allen plans to serve exactly three years as chairman. After all, says he, "anything less would be absurd, and any longer will see me an old-age pensioner." I.C.I.'s profit picture is expected to brighten during those three years. If it does not, Sir Paul's actions may be to blame, but Sir Peter will wind up paying for them...
...PHILIP ALLEN KEITH...
...equal parts H. L. Mencken and Charles Maurras, add the crusading zeal of Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, the wit of Fred Allen, the voice and presence of John Barrymore, the charisma of Bing Crosby, and you have the Caudillo of conservatism, William F. Buckley Jr. [Nov. 3]. Now if only the Conservatives could persuade him to seek the G.O.P. nomination for U.S. Senator next year or enter him in the lists against Javits or ex-Mayor Wagner, New Yorkers would have a choice instead of the traditional Tweedledum-Tweedledee Liberal shell game...