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...support 13,000 cattle and feed lots that can fatten 100,000 at a time, Anderson is one of the largest landowners in the U.S. His annual gross of about $1,500,000 makes him more than a match for such legendary barons as Goodnight or King Ranch Founder Richard King...
...strength of our country is in direct relationship to the strength and skills of the men running its corporations." So says Manhattan's Sidney M. Boyden, 67, who manufactures nothing, markets nothing, manages a staff that is smaller (30 associates) than the average Boy Scout troop. As founder and president of Boyden Associates, Inc., he has supplied more big businesses with top managers than any other U.S. executive recruiter...
Teledyne, Inc. of Los Angeles has grown into a $400 million-a-year technological complex in only seven years by thinking big and moving fast. Founder-Chairman Henry E. Singleton, 50, who keeps a blackboard in his office for rapid-fire chalk talks on the intricacies of his company, obviously believes that those with whom Teledyne deals should move fast too. Earlier this month, Teledyne offered $40 a share for 7,500,000 outstanding shares of United Insurance Co. of America (assets: $303 million). United stock was then selling at $27. Last week, apparently because directors of the Chicago-based...
...Boer General Cronje, Baden-Powell was made the youngest major general in the British army. His military prowess was acclaimed in terms that would have been extravagant for Alexander of Macedon. He retired in 1910 after an otherwise uneventful military career. But no matter, he made a swell founder of the Boy Scouts...
According to co-founder Michael Yokel, an M.I.T. senior, the publication will focus debate on issues of concern to the New England. This is our primary goal, not to have a professional newspaper." Yokel is a veteran of Students for a Democratic Society...