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When Fred J. Borch was named executive vice president of General Electric 15 months ago, the implication was as blaring as the horn on a G.E. diesel locomotive (TIME, Aug. 10, 1962). The post has existed only off and on in G.E.'s history, and is usually reactivated to accommodate an heir apparent. By picking Vice President Borch for it, the board cleared the way for the retirement of Ralph Cordiner, chairman and longtime chief executive. Cordiner has wanted to retire to his 1,800-acre West Florida cattle and citrus ranch, but postponed his departure long enough...
...only three years away from mandatory retirement at 65, General Electric Co. last week made an important top-management appointment. Up to the powerful executive vice presidency for operations−a post once held by Cordiner and by former G.E. President Robert Paxton−moved Brooklyn-born Fred J. Borch, 52, who has been vice president of the G.E. consumer products group. Borch, who started with G.E. as a traveling auditor, will take from Cordiner full responsibility for directing manufacturing and marketing by all five G.E. operating groups. More important, the promotion marks him as a prime candidate to move...
...European students are trying desperately to prepare themselves for the leadership expected of them," said Otto Borch, University of Copenhagen student in an exclusive interview with a CRIMSON representative last night...
...Borch, who helped edit an underground newspaper in Denmark during the Nazi occupation, stressed the tremendous amount of reconstruction to be done before Continental universities resume even a semblance of their former stature. As an example, he cited the University of Warsaw, where only one of 48 buildings remains intact after the devastation wrought by the Nazis. The lone survivor, ironically, is the University library, without its books...
...Borch is in the United States as one of seven European students who are being sent throughout the country by the World Student Service Fund in an attempt to acquaint American students with the plight of the future leaders of Europe...