Word: cole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...liability) as two separate holding companies that divide Unilever's assets but pool its profits. Each has a board of directors that controls the board of the other. This tail-chasing organizational scheme works only because the same men are on each board. Although Unilever Ltd. Chairman George Cole, 55, and Unilever N.V. Chairman Frederik Jan Tempel, 61, run the company from adjoining offices. Cole-a husky. low-key executive who started out as a $4.20-a-week junior statistician with United Africa 38 years ago-is popularly considered...
...knowing when to go ahead-and when to pull back. In Europe they are driving forward, particularly with frozen foods; but in Africa, they are dealing delicately with threats from the new nations to nationalize chunks of the highly profitable United Africa Co. (TIME, May 26). Says Co-Chairman Cole philosophically: "If they want things in their own hands, you help them do it. Then you find something else to do yourself...
...Committee also granted formal assent to the Lowell House Opera Society's rendition of Gay's Beggar's Opera, with David Cole '63 directing...
...John Parker, the director of the current production, has taken full advantage of the ridiculousness of the situation. His peers have scowls that could wither Mao, and their gait is eminently noble. Even more importantly, two of them are excellent comic actors. Mr. David S. Cole is the most susceptible of highly susceptible Chancellors--a perfectly dirty old man, he totters about, ogling near-sightedly at his wards in Chancery, and kicking fretfully at the traces of a ruined dignity...
Should the presidency go to either Engineer Cole or Engineer Knudsen, the chairman's job most likely would fall to a financial man in the tradition of present Chairman Frederic G. Donner, 59. Leading contenders at the moment: George Russell, 56, executive vice president for finance, and Vice President Richard C. Gerstenberg, 51, Russell's immediate subordinate. But for all participants in the great Detroit guessing game, one G.M. official last week had an amused warning: "Whatever you guess, no matter how logical, the odds are you're going to be wrong...