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Among the others summoned by Carter were four possible candidates for Defense Secretary: Caltech President Harold Brown, former Defense Secretary James Schlesinger, Bendix Corp. Chairman Michael Blumenthal and Washington Lawyer Paul Warnke. Carter also interviewed Columbia Professor Zbigniew Brzezinski, who may become his national security adviser; Washington State Representative Brock Adams, a possible Transportation Secretary; former IBM Corp. Vice President Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, a possible Commerce, HUD or HEW Secretary; and black Georgia Representative Andrew Young, who insists that he wants to stay in Congress...
...contender for Treasury or Defense . . . Informal but hard-driving chairman of Bendix Corp., Michigan-based conglomerate in auto parts, forest products, other fields (sales: $3 billion) . . . Age 50 . . . Born in Berlin, fled Nazis with family to China, arrived in U.S. at 21 in 1947 with $60 in pocket; worked way through University of California, making Phi Beta Kappa; got Ph.D. in economics at Princeton and taught there . . . Was U.S. negotiator in the Kennedy Round trade talks in the 1960s (said one colleague approvingly: "The Europeans thought he was too tough") . . . Other business executives say he is good at delegating authority...
...name his Treasury Secretary as early as this week. The leading contenders apparently included Economist Charles Schultze, a former Budget director under Johnson; Andrew Brimmer, perhaps the nation's most prominent black economist and a former member of the Federal Reserve Board; and Michael Blumenthal, chairman of the Bendix Corp. and a former deputy assistant Secretary of State. Another possible choice was Irving Shapiro, head of Du Pont...
...keep going up. U.S. companies will probably schedule $13 billion worth of new stock issues for sale in 1976-already well ahead of the $9.2 billion actually marketed in all of last year. Stock splits are also on the rise; they have been announced by such companies as Bendix, Crane, Amsted, and U.S. Steel. Most important, corporate directors are encouraging investors by announcing the largest number of dividend increases in 20 years...
...countries doing business with Israel, the Saudi Arabian government has also required that corporations and government agencies entering into agreements with it not employ Jews for projects inside that country. At least four corporations and two government agencies are known to have complied with these restrictions: Ashland Chemical Co., Bendix Field Engineering Corp., Dresser Industries Inc. and International School Services, in addition to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Overseas Private Investment Corp...