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Sixth Sense. Flick rode high under the Nazis, with enough holdings in coal and steel to make him a reichsmark billionaire. During his imprisonment, 75% of his wealth was confiscated, and after his release Allied authorities forced him to sell the remainder of his coal interests. At first this seemed a bitter blow, but when the coal industry hit a depression in 1958 Flick turned out to be set with plenty of cash. With an unerring sixth sense for economic trends, he resisted advice to concentrate all he had in steel, decided that most growth would be in autos, chemicals...
When German Industrialist Friedrich Flick reached his 80th birthday this month, he celebrated by donating more than a million dollars to charity and scientific research. Flick's generosity is one result of a remarkable accomplishment: the reconstruction of his personal fortune. Just 13 years after his release from Landsberg prison, where he served five years of a seven-year term for using Nazi slave labor in his factories, Flick once again heads Germany's biggest and most powerful industrial empire. He controls an interlocking maze of 156 companies in autos, steel, chemicals and paper whose annual sales total...
Strong Advice. At 80, Flick still has a ramrod-straight back. Virtually his only relaxation is strolling alone, head down, through the vast park surrounding Haus Hobeck, his spacious 15-room villa near Düsseldorf. On the job he avoids all small talk, turns out a prodigious amount of work each day at the 100-man headquarters of his holding company on two rented floors in Düsseldorf. He is frequently on the phone to such key managers as Walter Hitzinger of Daimler-Benz, constantly amazes them with his grasp of intricate details...
...uncompromising Flick never gives direct orders, but his managers have learned that any "advice" he gives is as good as an order. His oldest son, Otto-Ernst, 47, made the mistake recently of questioning the old man's judgment, started a court battle to change the way in which Flick had decided to dispense his wealth after his death. Beaten in court, Otto-Ernst no longer has any connection with his unforgiving father's industrial combine. His more obedient younger brother, Friedrich-Karl, 36, is now the heir apparent...
...editor sits at his console, staring at a whole bank of television-type screens. With the flick of a switch he can call up the image of all the elements of his newspapers-wire service copy, a reporter's typescript, carefully catalogued material from the morgue. Wielding a tiny electronic stylus instead of a pencil, he changes words, makes erasures, shifts paragraphs. Every move, every judgment is recorded in the console's electronic memory. The job done, the editor presses a button and the corrected copy jumps into view, set and spaced just as it will appear...