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...Breed. Are Randall's fears real? Some businessmen think so. Says Union Tank Car President Edwin A. Locke Jr.: "A sort of philosophy has grown up that an executive should have a clear desk and sit around and do nothing but think. This is absolute nonsense." But there are others who think that Randall describes a passing generation of corporate leaders. Said William H. Rentschler. chairman of Chicago's Stevens Candy Kitchens: "The new breed is not that way. They take a much more active role in public life and are much more conversant with what...
...carried four Southern states in 1952 and five in 1956. Richard Nixon won three in 1960 and polled 4,700,000 votes in the South - only 400,000 less than John Kennedy. As the surprising G.O.P. sentiment bubbled up, virtually without local leadership, the party began attracting a new breed of politician- furrow-browed, button-down, college-trained young amateurs who, one by one, took over control of the state parties from apathetic and aging professionals. The new wave is now in command of Alabama, Mississippi, and South and North Carolina. The four rebel state chairmen...
...efforts of the new breed have already paid off in small ways. In the last two years, Republicans have elected a mayor in Mobile, put the first two party members in the South Carolina legislature since Reconstruction, and sent Texas' John Tower to the U.S. Senate. Southern Republicans talk of doubling their number of Congressmen from seven to 14 this November, a hope that may prove forlorn. Clearly, the new breed has a long way to go. But at least and at last it has made a beginning...
...their speech, their ease of bearing, the firm-lipped gravity of their faces. Actors McCrea and Scott give the action strength and substance. The western has always been a stance as well as a story, and when actors with the unforced dignity of McCrea and Scott go, the old breed of western will go with them...
...Strategic Aerospace Division of the Strategic Air Command, is a rarity; Atlases, even without warheads, cost nearly a million dollars apiece and are not to be treated casually. Yet in an age when an intercontinental thermonuclear strike order could be received at any moment, a key warrior breed will be the missileer, whose fighting environment, neither sea nor sky nor foxhole, will be a concrete blockhouse or an underground fortress. His ties to the world outside will be electric wires. TV screens, knobs, dials, microphones, buttons and bulbs. He will be the man who presses the button...