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...Jamieson, Exxon's chairman since 1969, who started out in the oil business in the 1930s as a laborer in a small refinery in Calgary, Alberta. Last week's announcement that Jamieson, now 64, will retire on Aug. 1 signals a subtle change in style at the colossus of the major oil companies. More than any of their predecessors, Exxon's incoming management team are men who won their spurs not so much as oilmen as organization...
Since 1776 the U.S. has grown from a sliver of colonies along the Atlantic coast into a colossus whose shores are also washed by the Pacific and even the Arctic oceans, from a population of 2.5 million into one nearly 90 times larger, from a simple agrarian society into the world's most technologically sophisticated civilization. How did we get from there to here? How have we changed in our 200 years? And what do these changes portend for our future...
...early 1960s, in itself was another abnormality. It could not have lasted, and it did not. We had been a major power from about 1900 on, and then after World War I, the strongest single power. But we came out of World War II a kind of colossus, with more economic and military power than all the rest of the world put together. Even ten years after the end of World War II, with Europe and Japan both fully recovered from war damage and with their production higher than prewar, the American gross national product was 36% of the total...
...health insurance foretells the coming unified and centralized medical system. All this raises the spectre of a centralized medical empire with as democratic a structure as IBM. The doctor sees his or her role changing from line advocate for the poor, sick and downtrodden to bureaucratic head of this colossus. Herein we see the significance of Harvard's past and present discriminatory practices. Ultimately truly basic changes are needed. Institutional democracy with control of corporate complexes by those working in them and those being served by them is needed at Harvard and in medicine in general to finally give...
...Hoover did" or when he addressed the president personally as "prezz" or when he failed to take his borderhouse-reach while sitting at the table of New York's swankiest, it made good copy. Ruth was a big man back-dropped by stiffs who made him look like a Colossus...