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...Treasury Secretary Henry Fowler took another tack. Contingency planning, he said, should begin as soon as possible and involve poor nations as well as rich. By last week's vote, the Ten agreed not only to continue seeking some kind of reform but also to broaden deliberations by including the 20-member executive board of the International Monetary Fund. Half the board is drawn from Group of Ten nations, but the other members represent African, Arab, Asian and Latin American countries, which will now be able to insert poor-nation needs and notions into the debate and perhaps break...
...selling Kents have slipped. Last year Cra.mer moved aside for Manuel Yellen, who became chairman of the company and chief executive officer. In his $50,000-a-year job with Royal Crown, Cramer will be able to return to the foreign market he understands so well, will try to broaden overseas sales from R.C.'s present small base of 22 countries, bring the growing company into closer competition with bigger Coca-Cola and Pepsi-Cola...
Oppenheimer set up a director's fund that has provided short-term professorships for such untypical Institute intellectuals as Critic Kenneth Burke and Psychologist Jerome Bruner. But Oppenheimer has resisted pressure to broaden the Institute's scope with the argument that it is better to do a few things well. Justifiably, he can claim that the Institute has achieved "massive preeminence" in theoretical mathematics. It was at the Institute that Von Neumann developed his games theory, and his speculations on programming, which proved essential to the development of the computer. Hermann Weyl polished his "group representations" approach...
...Electronics (6,600,000 telephones) now controls 30 operating U.S. companies, and its Automatic Electric Co. is the largest supplier of equipment to independent companies. Telephone operations account for 45% of General's $2 billion revenues and 63% of its profit, and President Leslie H. Warner intends to broaden that end of the business even more...
...Ircom, jointly signed to build a 20-story skyscraper in Uganda's capital of Kampala. A group of three other Ro man companies, including a firm called Vianini, in which the Vatican is the largest shareholder, recently won a $40 million order from the Libyan govern ment to broaden 1,483 miles of coastal highway and erect 46 bridges...