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...very clear idea of what he would never do: Richard Kimball would never work for a large corporation, he would never work in New York City and he would never live in the suburbs. Today, Kimball is the assistant corporate secretary for the Exxon Corporation and commutes to his downtown Manhattan office every day from his home in Chappaqua...
Although he was skeptical about his decision to join Exxon in 1957, Kimball writes now that he is sure the decision was the right...
...fabricated "organizational" man has never reared its ugly head. But what is noticeably lacking from the often lengthy autobiographical sketches in recent 25th reunion books is a sense of obligation to anything higher than thyself and thine organization. The same people who describe their successful efforts in helping Exxon sell ever more gasoline and accrue ever-increasing profits, and who detail their travels abroad and the cultural events they witness in their leisure, have little or nothing to say about their contributions toward making our society a better place in which to live. Nor do they express concern...
...after Indira Gandhi had proved that a Watergate was impossible in India, the year that the United States became the world's largest democracy. It was the year Kuwait surpassed the United States in per capita income and Italy beat France in per capita wine consumption. The year Exxon became the world's largest corporation and the Comoro Islands the smallest member of the U.N. It was the year everyone heard of South Molucca...
...gross national product, 86% of its revenues and 97% of its exports. During the debates that led up to nationalization, the government shunned emotional rhetoric and consistently rejected far-left demands that it eject 21 foreign oil companies without compensation. For their part, the companies, headed by Exxon, accepted with only minimal grumbling a shade over $1 billion-10% of it in cash and most of the rest in five-year Venezuelan government bonds-for equipment and concessions that they value at $5 billion. Said one official of the former Exxon subsidiary, Creole Petroleum: "Venezuela has reached the point where...