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...That l%." Above all else, Neil McElroy is an expert organization manager coming to a Washington job where only an organizer can make a dent. Cincinnati's Procter & Gamble is the company of the organization man. People do not work for Procter & Gamble; they live it. The work product of each employee is measured as carefully as the chemicals in a detergent formula. Superiority, not seniority, is the basis for promotion-and the basis on which Neil McElroy was named president...
Although this number will not completely solve the graduate housing problem, it will make a sizeable dent in it. Moreover, the existence of so many good apartments will make the Cambridge landlord a little less cocky. Specific sites have not yet been chosen; in an official brochure, however, the Administration states that it "has in mind fairly high buildings with adequate play and parking spaces, near parks and good schools...
Died. Martin T. Lacey, 75 (less one day), iron-jawed, dent-nosed sparkplug (since 1903) of the New York labor front, kingpin Teamsters union leader who fought the Beck-Hoffa-Dio racketeers for his New York Teamsters' Joint Council 16 presidency but lost it to Hoffa's pal, John J. O'Rourke, last January; of a heart attack in his sleep; in Washington Township...
Last week's decision of the Supreme Court will not cripple G.M. nor will it knock a dent in Du Pont's business. G.M. will probably keep right on buying from Du Pont so long as the price and product are right. What will hurt is the order to get rid of stock that pays a handsome $126 million annually in dividends. Through Christiana Securities Co., Delaware Realty & Investment Co. and individual stockholdings, the Du Pont family owns 28% of Du Pont itself, and in turn some 18 million shares of General Motors stock worth $756 million...
...years of resdence there, first as Secretary of War and later as Vice-President, made little dent on Oakly, but left Calhoun financially embarassed. His wife's propensity for entertaining eventually forced him to relinquish the Georgetown estate for the less demanding routines of the Washington boarding houses...