Word: chief
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first, the atmosphere grew so tense that the resplendently robed Honorable Chief Festus Okotie-Eboh. Finance Minister of the federal government of Nigeria, felt obliged to do a bit of prodding. "Why are we so solemn?" he cried. "Let's cheer our speakers and try to be happy!" The 175 delegates to the opening meeting of the newly created U.N. Economic Commission for Africa had first to find out whether they could even get along with one another...
Tandem Tactics. At Brisbane the Chief led off for the U.S. against Anderson, and from the first serve it was obvious that he found the match interesting. Before the astonished eyes of 18,000 Australian partisans, Olmedo charged repeatedly for killing volleys, managed an upset victory 8-6, 2-6, 9-7, 8-6. Then Barry MacKay lost as expected to Australia's Cooper to tie the match score. But next day Olmedo teamed with Ham Richardson in the doubles against Anderson and Neale Fraser. The U.S. pair promptly lost the first two sets, had to rally desperately...
...girls," he grinned. In voluble Spanish Gonzales suggested Olmedo's strategy: keep the ball low on the wet court, use lobs to drive Cooper back from the net, move around to upset the Aussie's second service. It worked. Charging to the net, the Chief forced the attack, punched his volleys accurately, won 6-3, 4-6, 6-4, 8-6. Almost single-handed Alex Olmedo had won the Davis...
...widely considered one of the chief strongholds of the organization man. Ralph Cordiner is an organization man with a vital difference: he has made the organization conform to him. ''When I took over in 1951,'' he recalls, "I told lots of people immediately that this company was not going to be a sinecure for mediocrity. The old G.E. had a reputation as a good and complacent place to work if you kept your nose clean. I wanted to get rid of that idea and create more risk and opportunity." Says G.E. Director and Wall Street Broker...
Cordiner shares his responsibilities with an executive office composed of President Robert Paxton, 56, and 13 vice presidents. The heads of the nine service divisions (e.g., accounting, management consultation, marketing) report directly to Cordiner, bear the chief burden of long-range planning and research. To Paxton, himself an old operating man, report such operating-group executives as Arthur F. Vinson. 51, head of G.E.'s important heavy industrial goods section, James H. Goss, 51, head of consumer products, and Cramer V. LaPierre, 54, boss of defense and atomics...