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...Nikita Khrushchev's desk was an ear of American corn, sent him by a U.S. seed company. On the nearby boardroom-type table were two bottles of mineral water: one from the North Caucasus, one from the South Caucasus. Khrushchev, wearing two Orders of Lenin medals on the left lapel of his dark suit jacket, waved his visitor to a chair at the table, took another for himself. "What," he asked, "would you like to discuss?" Replied Minnesota's endlessly ebullient, hardheadedly liberal Democratic Senator Hubert Humphrey: "Many things." And for 83-hours last week Nikita Khrushchev...
...Rides Again? Last week, presumably weary of the boardroom battle, neutral Director Reid resigned his umpire's job. With him went two other directors. General Dynamics' President Frank Pace Jr. and Manhattan Attorney George A. Brownell,* both of whom have voted with President Vogel. Appealing to his stockholders for help, embattled President Vogel warned that the dissidents planned to put Contractor Tomlinson in as Loew's chairman, with TV Man Meyer as president. He also charged, as a final shot, that the man behind it all was none other than longtime M-G-M Mogul Louis...
...Economist Gaitskell's program is "deliberately designed to have the minimum of eventual real effect, while instilling the maximum of interim uncertainty in every boardroom in the country...
...Britain's Socialist Novelist J. B. Priestley in The Magicians and the U.S.'s Republican Novelist Howard Swiggett in The Power and the Prize. Priestley's book is suave, but wanders off into drawing-room speculation; Swig-gett's novel is crude, though closer to boardroom politics...
...crowded, oak-paneled boardroom of Washington's Riggs National Bank last week, the long ownership battle over the American President Lines, Ltd. finally came to an end. On a bid of $18.4 million, the line, with its 17 passenger and freight ships, went to A.P.L. Associates. Inc., a company formed by California Oilman Ralph K. (for Kenneth) Davies...