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...other farmers. At 17 he headed for Omaha, studied accounting while scouring floors and cleaning tables for board and tuition, got his first job as an accounting clerk with General Motors Acceptance Corp. Later, after Boyd served as a Nash sales executive, he ran his own Nash, then Buick dealerships in Sioux City, Iowa, and Alliance, Neb. In 1954, George Romney recruited Boyd as his special assistant, whose chief responsibility was beefing up American Motors' dealership system...
Though French courts must finally decide the Consten-Grundig case, they are expected to go along with the EEC precedent, which may affect more than 30,000 exclusive-dealership arrangements...
...Asked for an opinion on the case, the EEC in Brussels brushed aside bitter German protests, decided that the Grundig-Consten deal created "a monopoly within French territory" in violation of Common Market free-trade accords. The Market's court of justice in Luxembourg thereupon ruled the exclusive dealership illegal...
...failure rate is high enough even without the resentment from foreign competitors that the American abroad often faces. Nonetheless, the appeal of setting up business overseas is undeniable. Says Peter Pach, who went to Italy to break into opera as a basso and stayed to set up an auto dealership catering to tourists in Rome: "In Italy, I have a somewhat unique position. In America, I would be just another car dealer...
...appointment -a token of President Kennedy's warm thanks for work during West Virginia's 1960 presidential primary-seemed assured. Only Winston Prouty had doubts. He thought it might yet be interesting to hear from an ex-partner in Roosevelt's Washington foreign-car dealership who sued F.D.R. Jr. and the Fiat Motor Co. for $9,000,000 a few years ago. The rest of the committee, both Republicans and Democrats, seemed mighty pleased when Junior vowed: "I will try to be purer than Caesar's wife." There were Rotarian guffaws when Senator Magnuson quipped: "Well...