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...vociferous critic of Ford and General Motors for their way of operating abroad through directly owned subsidiaries, American Motors President George Romney, 54, ardently argues that to avoid stirring up xenophobia abroad, U.S. corporations should move into foreign markets unobtrusively in cooperation with local businessmen. True to his credo, Romney will now enter the Common Market in a cooperative deal that requires no capital investment by him. Beginning next month, France's government-owned Renault auto company will start building the Rambler Classic in its Belgian plant. Major parts will be shipped from A.M.C.'s U.S. plants...
...stress the unifying elements of Christianity while diplomatically playing down differences. "So," he remembers, "I took the breakfast menu and wrote out a new formula." Last week in New Delhi the Council adopted Visser 't Hooft's breakfast-menu definition as the Council's new credo. It reads...
Cooperation. With this credo, La Générale has built up a 15-ft. by 45-ft. library of stock certificates, which represent effective control of corporations worth $1 billion to $2 billion. Through a pattern of interlocking directorates as intricate as a piece of Brussels lace, La Générale controls 10% of Belgium's economic life-including one-third of its steel and coal production, three-quarters of its nonferrous metals output, and chunks of its banking, electricity, transport and armaments. With a bare 17% of its investments...
Clearly, Mr. Wilson does not approve of his seedy characters and their restless travels. But having decided to write as an Angry, he has deserted detachment and abandoned the garden; as a result, of course, his book is as wearisome as his characters. The actor, who mouthes a Bohemain credo, is particularly trying, and one is required to read so many pages of his awful shoutings: "They're [presumably the untroubled middle classes] all hypocrites and frauds. They spend their money so they can buy television sets and washing machines, but the one thing they can't buy is human...
...misanthrope in this business," says Mauldin. "A real son of a bitch. I'm touchy. I've got raw nerve ends, and I'll jump. If I see a stuffed shirt, I want to punch it." Mauldin's professional credo: "If it's big, hit it. You can't go far wrong...