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General Motors Chairman Frederic Donner figured that what is good for the U.S. is good for G.M., and vice versa. Dedicating a remarkable new plant at Fremont, Calif.-a factory that spews out Buicks, Pontiacs, Oldsmobiles, Chevies and two kinds of trucks from the same assembly line-Donner jovially sprang the news that the world's biggest manufacturer has just begun its most ambitious expansion in history...
...marked the end of the profit squeeze that U.S. industry has suffered for nearly a decade. Reason: already high consumer demand continued to grow strongly, while companies, aided by new computers, automation and sharper cost control, were able to hold down production costs. Says General Motors' Chairman Frederic Donner: "Rising industrial production, employment and consumer income engendered a high level of consumer and business confidence. 1963 was a good year for the economy, a fine year for the automobile industry and an excellent year for efficient producers in that industry...
...playwright's bleak study of mankind may be an allegory subject to highly colorful interpretations, it may only be an exercise in ambiguity. The movie falters, too, because the flaws of filmed theater become obvious when ever Director Clive Donner and Scenarist Pinter try most earnestly to "open up" the play in cinema terms. A room sealed against the real and imagined terrors of the outside world is the natural hell of Pinter's characters, and a legitimate theater is an intimate place to share them. To set them roaming into the street or off to a neighborhood...
...income of $1.522 billion on operating revenues of $9.5 billion. "The Bell System," said Kappel with ringing understatement, "has had a good year." But still to be heard from is another Frederic who has also had a good year. A month from now, G.M.'s Chairman Frederic Donner will issue his report on a year that was the best in Detroit's history. On the basis of projections from its record-breaking $1.08 billion net for the first three quarters, G.M. may well take back the title...
...imposition of such restrictions came "very close to resting the national economic welfare on a game of chance." Addressing the "Business Committee for Tax Reduction in 1963," a group formed at the Administration's urging and including such big names as Henry Ford II, David Rockefeller and Frederic Donner, Kennedy said Byrnes's rider would inhibit rather than stimulate investment, thus nullifying the purpose of the tax cut. "This nation," he said, "has had a recession on the average of every 42 months since the second World War-or every 44 months since the first World...