Word: greenbrier
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Comedian Garry Moore, 52, recuperating in Bermuda's King Edward VII Memorial Hospital after a "very mild heart attack" Evangelist Billy Graham, 49, recovering at West Virginia's Greenbrier hotel from a moderate case of virus pneumonia; New Jersey's Democratic Governor Richard J. Hughes, 58, resting at Philadelphia's University of Pennsylvania Medical Center after surgical removal of a cataract in his left eye; Comedian Bert Lahr, 72, rallying at Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center from severe pneumonia that put him in a coma; Communications Theorist Marshall McLuhan, 56, also convalescing at Columbia...
...today's budding executives -and got a job with the Chicago branch of Cadillac. Soon his name was entered in G.M.'s "black book"-a loose-leaf binder with profiles of the 700 or so brightest comers in the company-and he was tapped to attend "the Greenbrier group," a triennial meeting in West Virginia where key managers debate grand strategy. Rising on the company escalator, he was moved up to general manager of Cadillac in the 1950s, the era when its cars sprouted their sharpest fins. When, in 1962, he leaped over several seniors to become executive...
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...ability, and his performance is reviewed and recorded by superiors every six months. Several hundred who show the greatest potential are listed in a confidential "black book" and methodically shifted from one job to another to test that potential. The best in the black book eventually rise to the "Greenbrier Group," a select party of executives who are invited every three years to a top-secret meeting in Greenbrier, W. Va., where they study G.M.'s past, reflect upon its present and try to chart its future...
Last week one of the Greenbrier...