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CONSUMER ACTION: Consumers could help themselves?and society?by complaining more about shoddy goods and slapdash service. When it comes to complaining, most Americans are really members of the Silent Majority. Ari Kiev, head of Cornell Medical College's social psychiatry program, figures that the atmosphere of the faceless society...
These karate chops to the corporate system are from a new book, Up the Organization, a breezy assault on business inefficiency clearly destined for the best seller list. The publisher, Alfred A. Knopf, has ordered a printing of 100,000, a run usually reserved for sex-saturated novels. The author...
The Mexican airport greeted us with a heavy dose of colonial atmosphere: Yanqui colonial atmosphere. Dark-skinned Mexicans handling the bags, light-skinned Mexicans behind the counters in ties and jackets speaking English. Multinational corporate fingers all over-Avis, Hertz, Coca-Cola, Haig and Haig. The FBI hit us at...
ITT has already spread into hotels (Sheraton), car renting (Avis), home building (Levitt & Sons), book publishing (Bobbs-Merrill) and bread (Continental Baking). Why would this aggressive giant want slow-moving Hartford Fire? One likely reason is that the insurance company has a valuable portfolio of securities that might be used...
Married. Nora Avis Hope, 23, comedian Bob's raven-haired daughter and youngest of his four adopted children; and Samuel Boyd McCullagh Jr., 23, assistant director of admissions at the University of San Francisco; in a Roman Catholic ceremony in North Hollywood.