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Three Roads. Now there are three roads open to Kennedy. He could pick an able man from the second echelon of Latin American experts (such as Ambassador to Brazil John Moors Cabot or ex-Ambassador to Cuba Philip Bonsai) and build him up to first rank by going to great personal lengths to stress the importance of both man and job. He could reach outside the ranks of Latin American specialists for a big name that would by itself prove the importance he attaches to the job. Or he could agree to Berle's terms...
...precocious undergraduate at Harvard, Mailer was making his plans, and when the Army drafted him, early in 1944, his only concern was where he would be sent ("I worried whether a great war novel would be written about Europe or the Pacific"). After serving in various rear-echelon jobs and, briefly and proudly, as an infantry rifleman on Leyte and Luzon, he returned to the U.S., wrote The Naked and the Dead in 15 methodical months-exactly according to plan...
...expert in management, he always thinks there is more to learn. He attends the seminar for chief executives at Colgate University each year, and takes his higher-echelon executives (average age: 43) to out-of-the-way resorts for several days of intensive soul searching, often splits them up into groups for what he calls war games. (The customary enemy: A.M.F.) If a plant lags in production, Bensinger likes to take a hand at running it to see if he can iron out the trouble...
...want to be pushed around by the great powers. The Big Five of neutralism-Tito of Yugoslavia, Nehru of India, Nkrumah of Ghana, Nasser of Egypt, Sukarno of Indonesia -are magnetic, colorful and messianic personalities, but too much so. The most effective work has often been done by second-echelon diplomats: men like Burma's U Thant, Nepal's Rishikesh Shaha and Tunisia's Mongi Slim...
...forced resignation of President William C. Newburg (TIME, July u), who was discovered to have owned interests in Press Products Inc. and the Bonan Corp., both Chrysler suppliers. The rattles show no sign of going away. Company auditors were investigating just about everyone in Chrysler's top echelon in search of financial links to Chrysler's suppliers. Irate stockholders, spurred on by the poorest first-half earnings of the big three automakers, threatened to sue the company. Tipsters-often ex-employees with imaginary gripes against Chrysler-flooded the front office with charges against dozens of executives. Moaned...