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...government introduced a system of proportional representation under which he would have had to win a clear majority to return to power. Since no other party is willing to join a Jagan government, the British hoped that the election would result in a coalition headed by Attorney Forbes Burnham, a moderate, pro-Western leader whose People's National Congress Party is backed by his 190,000 fellow Negroes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Guiana: Cheddi's Last Stand | 12/18/1964 | See Source »

...party is not a Communist party." Is Cheddi himself a Communist? "If you mean to each his own," he says, "then I am a Communist. But if you mean denial of freedom, then I am not." Chance for a Coalition. Cheddi's chief opponent, Negro Leader Forbes Burnham, considers this pure doubletalk. A graduate of London University, Burnham is an able, experienced politician who would strengthen the colony's ties with the U.S. Chances are that Jagan will win the most votes, but not the 51% majority he needs to form a government. In second place will come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: British Guiana: Cheddi Against the Field | 11/27/1964 | See Source »

...Venus. Westinghouse produces salt-water-conversion plants that can make 50 million gallons of fresh water a day and bacteria-killing bulbs that give no light the human eye can see, is also working on a nuclear engine that may some day power spaceships to Mars and Venus. Under Burnham, its money-losing heavy-electrical-equipment division is again profitable (thanks in part to price boosts), and its long-neglected consumer division will finish 1964 in the black ("but not by very much," says Burnham) for the first time in several years. Westinghouse has developed dozens of new consumer products...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: New Life in an Old Giant | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

There are still some skeptics who feel that Westinghouse has a fair way to go before it becomes as sharp and profitable as it should be; Burnham himself admits that the company is "just making a first step." Wall Street's revived interest in the firm has sent its stock from 29¼ to 43 since June, and two sophisticated investment companies, Lehman Corp. and the One William Street Fund, have just bought $9,800,000 worth of Westinghouse stock. For all that, Don Burnham will probably get no better testimonial than the one offered last week by former...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: New Life in an Old Giant | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

April and was not replaced. Said Price: "Don Burnham is realistic and down-to-earth, and he did a few simple things that made a wonderful world of difference. The company now has "a spirit of confidence and loyalty to a degree that didn't exist before...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: New Life in an Old Giant | 10/30/1964 | See Source »

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