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...letting workers organize their jobs themselves instead of by the book might seem self-evident, since they know their own tasks better than anyone else does. It is most easily adopted in smaller companies, and it has been shown to improve production, quality and profits. Donnelly Mirrors of Holland, Mich., removed all its time clocks, put everyone on salary, and turned shop-floor decisions over to its employees. The company, which had sales of $14 million last year, has raised its profits roughly 20% annually in recent years and has lowered prices 25% since 1952. It has also given...
...major foreign investors-who have concentrated on oil and minerals-are from the U.S., Japan, West Germany, Holland, and Britain, in that order. Their investments total nearly $2 billion in actual or planned ventures...
..../Dragoti Ltd. Two films, Dirty Little Billy, a saga of Billy the Kid, and Spoiled Priests, about a Catholic priest who leaves his order, will go into production within the year. Most of the photographic, writing and editing talent for Billy will be drawn from the W.R.G. staff. Lois Holland Callaway's ventures are in keeping with the canny flamboyance of its president, George Lois. The three-year-old firm founded Mantle Men and Namath Girls, a glossy employment agency aimed at young job seekers. The placement agency's three Manhattan offices grossed $2,000,000 in their...
...good deal more could have been done in the way of such niceties as plot and character, but the atmosphere can hardly be faulted. That is not surprising, considering that Robert Stone Pryor is a pseudonym for Cecilia Holland, at 26 the well-known author of four well-wrought and successful works of romantic historical fiction: The Firedrake, 1966; Rakóssy, 1967; The Kings in Winter, 1968; Until the Sun Fails, 1969; and most recently Antichrist, released this spring at almost the same time as Cold Iron. A former graduate student in medieval history at Columbia and a onetime...
...members of Parliament. It also called off a conference of U.S. and West Indian Black Power leaders early in July. After radical workers and students sacked Willemstad, capital of the island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles, last year, one of their leaders, Stanley Brown, explained: "Holland has a hell of a debt to Curaçao -something similar to the Germans' debt to the Jews. They didn't kill us, but they stole our culture...