Word: firmnesses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Boyden, too, is after challenging situations. Abroad, the firm is chipping away at the fusty once-with-a-company, always-with-a-company notion of European executives. One Boyden man has been prospecting a relatively untapped resource: overseas-based U.S. managers who would not dream of returning to the rat race back home, yet might be good candidates for foreign subsidiaries of other U.S. companies...
...lives in noisy defiance of mainland inheritance taxes ("they offend my nostrils"). With his 96% stockholding, he runs Cope Allman with a spare, 25-man head-office staff "because I dislike middle management and all that sort of thing," likes to make patriarchal, publicity-grabbing visits to the firm's 15,000 worldwide employees. He frankly favors a personality cult as good management policy, "as long as the personality doesn't get too far from the cult...
...outfit developed by doing busi ness with American companies, and their know-how has brushed off onto our shoulders," says Jose Mendoza Fer nandez, 42, director of Bufete Industri al, Mexico's leading engineering firm...
...satisfied with Bufete are its U.S. customers that they rely on the firm when considering further expansion in Mexico. Celanese Corp. of America has used Bufete for 26 jobs, Diamond Alkali for seven, Du Pont for 14, and General Motors for two. Among Bufete's present projects: a $20 million pulp and paper plant for Kimberly-Clark in Veracruz and a $30 million Kodak filmmaking plant at Guadalajara...
...close enough to touch for a stretch, parapsychology, at least, seems to derive an infusion of new energy. It was so during the "spirit photography" vogue of the 1860's and '70's, which commenced in 1861 when one W.H. Mumler, an engraver employed by a Boston jewelery firm and in his off hours an amateur photographer, first claimed to have stumbled upon the ability to produce images of the dear departed standing or clustering behind a portrait sitter. After Mumler, a deluge of spirit photographers, most notably Mssrs. Beattie, Hudson and Bournsell of London, Duguid of Glasgow, Bland...