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...Angus Dun, retired bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Diocese of Washington, D.C. . . . C.L.D...
...businesses go broke? Taking an annual pulse count of U.S. business, Dun & Bradstreet last week blamed the great majority of business failures on incompetent or inexperienced management. Of 15,782 failures in 1962, 91.3% were due directly to management fumbles that caused poor sales, a poor competitive position, crushing overhead or inventory problems. The highest industrial failure rates were among the makers of furniture, electrical machinery, shoes and transportation equipment; on the retail level, the failure list was headed by children's and ladies' wear stores, sporting-goods shops and furniture stores...
...Banner. The U.S. plans to "proceed in company with the OAS," said President Kennedy last week, and would consider sanctions on Haiti only if present negotiations failed. A task force, with U.S. Marines aboard, maneuvered in the Gulf of Gonaïves within sight of Haiti's dun-colored mountains. Helicopters from the carrier Boxer could put them ashore in minutes. Yet the U.S. is anxious to avoid any unilateral intervention that would inevitably revive memories of the 1915-34 U.S. Marine occupation of Haiti. If intervention is required-to protect foreign nationals or to prevent a bloody...
...Anaconda Vice President Justice Lockwood, Phelps Dodge Copper President Edgar P. Dun-laevy, Cerro Vice President Richard H. Lewin, Scovill Sales Manager Maurice Liston, Mueller Vice President Alfred C. Dappert, Bridgeport Brass Vice President Richard L. Allen, and John M. Dumser, assistant to the president of Bridgeport Brass...
Four miles down the red clay road, Morfett discovered a second bivouac, "swarming with thousands of Russians. Some were dressed in physical-training gear and were doing calisthenics. Others wore greenish fatigues. Two teams were playing volley ball." Between neat rows of dun-colored tents, Morfett caught glimpses of field kitchens and chow lines, and beyond sat "military vehicles-lorries, trucks with mobile radar units, armored cars. Some of the trucks still bore Russian-language lettering." Ringing the camp were Cuban soldiers manning freshly dug anti-aircraft emplacements...