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...calls her by her middle name, Maria-Gladys, after all, is a show business celebrity. In the industry there is some gossip that success has already created a wedge in the Pips' solidarity. "When vocal groups are hungry, you can't split 'em with an ax," Cousin William once remarked. "As soon as success comes, all it takes is a butter cutter." Gladys scoffs, maintaining that she is content to remain one of the boys. "I'm not afraid to stand alone professionally," she says. "I simply don't want...
When Jonathan Scott was brought in as the first outsider ever to head the 116-year-old and no longer Great Atlantic and Pacific Tea Co., observers knew that he would swing the ax like no insider ever could. Last week, after only a month on the job, Chairman Scott, 44, took a tradition-shattering step toward revitalizing a company that long ago lost its place as the monarch of U.S. food retailing. He knew that A. & P.'s secretive, sometimes smug management had determinedly followed outmoded policies. It failed to invest in modern suburban supermarkets but held...
Lindbergh, on the other hand, always had an ax to grind, and made sure his analysis of, say, air force developments in Europe, conformed with his position that Germany could not of the war. Upon his return to the United States from Europe in 1938. Lindbergh told everyone who would be futile, that German air strength made war over the Sudeten crisis a non-viable proposition for England, France, and Russia. He endorsed the appeasement at Munich that ceded Czech territory to Germany, and paved the way for the occupation of Czechoslovakia the following year. Cole says that there...
...party organization in my factory." This sounded a little limiting, but at least one of the students in the school said he liked the team. "I used to think it was useless to study," he said. "Anyway, I would have to go to the countryside with an ax, so what did I need general knowledge for? I used to fail math and foreign language and was just average in everything else except sports, so the workers' propaganda team worked with me, discussing what the old society was like and why we need to seize power now, and when...
...before Thanksgiving until Jan. 6. Only its plant in St. Louis will produce cars. The move, which came as no surprise in view of Chrysler's 120-day inventory of unsold cars, means layoffs and bleak Christmases for 64,200 workers. White-collar workers also face the ax; fully 20,000 will be temporarily dropped at Chrysler. All company officers, from the vice-presidential level up to and including Chairman Townsend, will take December pay cuts. An angry Douglas Fraser, chief of the U.A.W.'s Chrysler Department, blamed the company for "irresponsible" overproduction, noting that the company...