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Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Frederic G. Donner, 56, and President John F. Gordon, 59, moved longtime (eight years) Executive Vice President Louis Clifford Goad, 58. In charge of G.M.'s automotive, body and assembly, and parts divisions since 1951, Cliff Goad has jurisdiction over all of G.M.'s general-staff activities: distribution, engineering, manufacturing, personnel, public relations, research and styling...
...curriculum prescribed by the nation's Ministry of Education, including instruction in the Greek Orthodox religion. But the school is not an austere learning factory, as most Greek academies are. President Davis has spread the six-year Greek secondary-school program through seven years, has planned courses to goad students to independent thought, promoted an unheard-of give and take in classrooms. Davis will leave the school and Successor Rice with an encouraging financial boost; fortnight ago the Ford Foundation announced that it would give Athens College $250,000 for scholarships and salaries of Americans who will teach...
...weddings, wakes and funerals, Smith says. "I get a good idea of who's in the mob and whom they're dealing with, and what's new." Other reporters, possibly in envy, suggest that this kind of intimate coverage can only goad gangland into throwing something more substantial than Joey Glimco's cud. But big (6 ft., 210 Ibs.), confident Sandy Smith has built no barricade around his Woodstock home, where he lives with his wife and four children. "If you cover the mob," he says, "you expect to get cursed and spat...
...Chance has not been a Catholic long enough to wear his new religion with serenity. At best it is a spiritual goad; at worst it is a scourge that keeps him in torment and sometimes torments his friends. He finds himself in North Africa for a vacation, an opportunity to think about his recent conversion and about his new status of widower. Yet he is already sitting in judgment. In a bar he is telling a Belgian prostitute he has just met that "making men happy" is wrong. A Catholic too, she replies: "You are obviously a convert. They...
...activity and criticism of the Senate Democrats can be useful nevertheless if it provides a spur and goad to the executive branch. Their interest in foreign policy may provide the basis for a collaboration similar to the powerful combination of executive and legislature which developed American policy towards Europe under the previous administration. If the young Democrats can pressure the administration into a new, dynamic outlook, the benefits will be vast...