Word: drives
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Carlson still has so deep a respect for a dollar that he continues to pump his own gas at a self-service station. But he generously donated $1 million to the drive, of which he is codirector, to raise $20 million for the Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs at the University of Minnesota. He is active in other charities and has finally delegated enough authority to set aside time for regular sessions of swimming and tennis. But the companies remain his passion. A pillow on Carlson's gold-striped sofa reads: "I love this business. Sit down...
Thomas was at Yale at the time and maintained a house in Woods Hole, Mass., where he and his wife retreated on weekends. He used the driving time from New Haven to consider ideas; then he spent the weekends writing his column longhand on ruled pads, finishing it by the time he was ready to drive home on Sunday night. "I wrote three or four pieces this way," says Thomas. "Then I called Ingelfinger and told him that I thought I had done enough. He said that he wanted me to continue and persuaded me that I should...
Except under the best of conditions, anyone traveling the $91 million highway will be roughing it. In winter, the road will be untenable without constant snow removal; in spring, it will be a morass of mud. Only in summer and fall will passage be relatively easy without four-wheel drive. Nor does the highway offer much in the way of roadside facilities. The Yukon government has established two maintenance posts at miles 41 and 123, and at mile 231 the privately owned Eagle Plains Hotel stands as a kind of halfway house. Other than two Indian villages, there...
...some observers it all seems risky. One is former Inuvik Mayor Jim Robertson, who predicts a flood of tourists. Says he plaintively: "We'll be the biggest used-car lot in the world. Every fool in an air-conditioned Cadillac will want to drive here, and one way will be enough. They won't go back over that road. They'll dump their cars here and fly home...
...president has also stepped on toes trying to straighten out the network's tangled management structure. Said one executive: "She has a Mother Superior complex." Chipped in another: "I understand that at IBM they don't fire people, they just reorganize in such a way as to drive someone out. That is exactly what is going on here...