Word: hamilton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HARVEY F. NICHOLS Hamilton, Mass...
Behind the rising clamor against overseas business ventures lay the fact that U.S. direct long-term investment abroad, which now stands at $34 billion, is increasing at an ever-mounting rate. Last week the management consultant firm of Booz. Allen & Hamilton reported that between mid-1960 and mid-1961, U.S. companies started 653 new businesses overseas, mostly in chemicals, machinery, food, and transportation equipment. Western Europe attracted more than half the new businesses, followed by Latin America and Asia. This year, the Commerce Department estimates, U.S. companies will spend $4.5 billion on overseas plant and equipment...
...management. Out as president of the kaleidoscopic Radio Corp. of America went John Lawrence Burns, 53, who took on the $200,000-a-year job under a ten-year contract less than five years ago. A top-drawer management consultant, Burns came to RCA from Booz, Allen & Hamilton, where he had been rated an expert on the problems of running big corporations and had included RCA among his clients...
...tough, austere soldier. Smiling broadly, Vice President Lyndon Johnson pumped General Park's hand on his arrival at the National Airport. Next morning, Park dutifully fulfilled the ritual of laying a wreath on the Tomb of the Unknowns, then talked with State Secretary Dean Rusk and Fowler Hamilton, head of the Agency for International Development. General Park outlined his five-year $2.4-billion plan for South Korea, indicated hopefully that he would like up to half of that sum to come from the U.S. Although Rusk and Hamilton made no promises and told him to rework his hastily drawn...
...handful of the volunteers drew hard ship posts. Ray Spriggs, 24, one of two Negroes in the group, has to walk eight miles from home to his school at Sekondi on the Ghana coast. Harvard Graduate Roger Hamilton, 22, teaching in the coastal village of Assinie, is cut off by tropical rains for nine months of the year, shares his house with a herd of goats and an occasional snake, sometimes needs eleven hours to Jeep 18 miles over Ghana roads to collect supplies. Hamilton has no complaints. Says he: "It's a good thing...