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ALEKSEI KOSYGIN, 58, was only 13 when the Bolsheviks seized power, and is one of the best examples of the new breed of Soviet technocrat who relies less on Communist dogma than on practical results. A wartime premier of the Russian Soviet Republic, Kosygin entered the inner Kremlin circle under Stalin, lost the dictator's favor in 1948 and remained relatively unimportant until 1959, when Khrushchev turned Kosygin's experience as an economic planner to use as the head of the State Planning Commission. During a tour of France two years ago, Khrushchev openly referred to his traveling...
...industry gets into the Common Market, American executives are being thrown into increasingly intimate contact with Europe's managerial class-and are finding it a different breed. European industry, reports University of Wisconsin Professor David Granick. is run by a species of businessman almost extinct in the U.S.-men bound by strict traditions of social class, aloof toward subordinates, and profoundly skeptical of the U.S. notion that corporate management is a separate branch of knowledge that can be learned in business school...
American university presidents are a strange breed. Stranger still are American university presidents-emeriti, a group that has variously found its way back to the classroom, into public office, into business, or back to the farm. Some presidents-emeriti become Experts on American Education and write reports, usually thanks to the Carnegie Foundation. Harold W. Dodds, President of Princeton University from 1933 to 1957, has accomplished the ultimate: he has come up with a report for the Carnegie Foundation on college presidents...
Such motives reflect the persisting segregationist attitude that Negroes are not only unequal to caucasians, but are germs which breed trouble wherever they happen to be as well. In a very real sense, these Southerners are trying to do more than solve the Negro problem by elimination: within their own frame of reference they are attempting to wage biological warfare on the North...
However, the Crimson regained its hold touch by the fourth inning, and sent the hapless Bears back to Providence with a 6-4 defeat to breed over...