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...past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...
...totalitarian methods. Nonetheless, Europe's expanding middle class is discovering to its horror that its sons and daughters are increasingly hostile to industry, "the System" and even to the established left of organized Communist parties. Says Francesco Forte, president of Italy's state-owned ENI oil colossus: "Marx has suddenly emerged as the official philosopher for the younger generation in Western Europe...
...Amexco hardly needs currency crises to prosper. Diversification is turning it into more of an insurance and banking colossus than a travel company. Fireman's Fund, a group of life and property insurers that American Express acquired in 1968, accounted for nearly two-thirds of the company's $1.6 billion revenues last year. In addition Amexco runs an international banking division with $1.8 billion in assets, manages five mutual funds, and owns 25% of Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, a major Wall Street investment house...
...officers described the deal as merely "an investment," presumably meaning that they do not plan to try for full control of the $5.5 billion-a-year food colossus. Having watched the price of A. & P. stock drop from 30 to 16⅞ over the past two years, Bluhdorn might be counting on the company's highly touted WEO (Where Economy Originates) discounting campaign to turn earnings around, after which he could sell off at a profit. Trouble is, while WHO has boosted A. & P.'s sales, it has so far savaged A. & P. earnings. The company lost more...
...items in its capacious memory bank-a monthly mailing list in the case of the mailorder house-and electronically direct either nearby or distant copiers to reproduce material. The major questions are how soon such a system can be developed, and which of two corporate titans-IBM, the computer colossus, or Xerox, the copier king-will...