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...Harvard Law faculty is sepectacular. It is awesome--even frightening. In no other school, including the rest of Harvard, is there such a concentration of brilliance as in the Law School's close-knit, tribal, Faculty...
...softly carpeted executive suites of the Aluminum Co. of America have been governed since 1957 by a close-knit fraternity of men who grew up in the shadow of the late Arthur Vining Davis, for half a century the domineering chief of the world's largest aluminum company. In those eight years, in a series of frequent but gradual transitions, Alcoa's chairmen have three times passed on their duties as chief executive shortly before retirement. Last week, nearing 65, Chairman Lawrence Litchfield Jr. relinquished his duties as chief executive officer, a position he has held for only...
...group that is led by Kappel and President Eugene J. Mc-Neely, 63, a stern taskmaster who supervises operations and personnel and has followed Kappel into three executive positions since 1949. This top team is known to company insiders as "the Cabinet." It is made up of an extremely close-knit and like-minded group of men (median age: 57) with strikingly similar backgrounds. They feel most comfortable with their own kind, even to the extent of lunching together every day in the 22nd-floor executive dining room. Three-quarters of them come from small towns, only a handful went...
Twice Lucky. As he moved up in the Ukraine party hierarchy before World War II, Brezhnev attracted Khrushchev's attention. Like his mentor, he joined the close-knit wartime coterie of political officers on the crumbling southern front. Rising swiftly after the war, Brezhnev was elected in 1952 to the party's Central Committee and Secretariat, became a candidate member of its executive arm, the Presidium. In 1954, he got his big job in Kazakhstan. Blessed by adequate rainfall and an eager labor force, he brought in the first two successful Virgin Lands harvests, returned to Moscow...
Henceforth, Diem's path was increasingly beset by missed opportunities and aborted chances. To some extent, he became a captive of his own close-knit family. Brother Nhu, without holding elective or appointive office, became the intellectual power behind the regime, as well as the organizer of its secret police. Brother Can supplied muscle, running central Viet Nam like a warlord. Brother Thuc, Archbishop of Hué, offered spiritual guidance, undismayed by occasional, barely concealed reproofs from the Vatican. To the band of brothers was added the indomitable sister-in-law, Mme. Nhu, whose dedicated feminism resulted...