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...pound tables and raise hell to get things done," says Link. "When the directors say tomorrow, I tell them I'm camping right here until you get going." When he was hired, he told Petrobrás brass: "I'm a capitalist and a strict believer in private enterprise. But leave me alone and I'll do the job." Link still feels that private foreign oil companies are needed in Brazil. "The more people you have looking for oil the better," he says...
...loss, such a forgetfulness of human brotherhood, such a certainty that a man's neighbor is merely a customer to be gained or a rival to be overthrown, and all these are inconceivable in the Catholic conception . . . There is an unbridgeable gulf between the Catholic and the capitalist conception of life...
...fault is not with the President or with the general moral tone of his Administration, or with Adams and his amazingly naive acceptance of favors from an East Boston, Mass. promoter and capitalist. Such things as this are done every day in the year by big business and small business without being publicized. Not until some enterprising newspaperman or researcher who is out to dig up the dirt on a political opponent gets a tipoff, is the unfortunate and embarrassed politician given the full treatment and held up to obloquy...
...later, a desk man in Moscow's police station 88 picked up his telephone, was astounded to find himself talking to a British newspaper man who grilled him in perfect Russian. Moscow's cops chatted amiably but guardedly with Zorza -particularly after he confided piously that his capitalist boss might dock him for wasting a call. But from their very nonchalance, Zorza deduced that the police were far from alarmed at this mob's violence and had no intention of stopping it. Zorza promptly said so in a front-page story in the next...
Equally flexibly, Fomento, unable in 1946 to find a capitalist to build a hotel, put up the pattern-setting Caribe Hilton with its own $5,000,000, brought U.S. Hotelman Conrad Hilton in to run it. Hilton made $1,000,000 the first year, was encouraged to go ahead with what is now his worldwide chain...