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Crowell Collier & Macmillan, Inc., as the firm is now known, currently commands 5.3% of the $561 million textbook market. Chairman Hagel, a veteran of McGraw-Hill and the Scripps-Howard chain, who joined Crowell Collier as a consultant in 1957, next moved into another basic-education marketing area: home study. For $3,194,000 he bought a 96% share of the LaSalle Extension University of Chicago, a correspondence school, expanded its courses, and more than quadrupled sales by 1965. He went on to buy the Free Press of Glencoe, Inc., 111., and Science Materials, Inc.; he also invested in Famous...
...other side of the globe, Time Inc. President James A. Linen was concerned with the founding of a new university at Pattani, in southern Thailand. Linen was visiting Thailand as guest of Foreign Minister Thanat Khoman, and during his stay was honored by the King, who made him Dvitiyabhorn (Knight Commander) of the Most Noble Order of the Crown. Linen first met Thanat during TIME'S news tour of Asia last winter, when the Foreign Minister's vigor and his views of the U.S. role in Asia made a sharp impression on the U.S. business executives who were...
Fred Harrinqton, 53, Wisconsin. He spends half his time away from Madison on projects in which his IBM memory, crisp voice and instant answers keep countless meetings moving toward decisive conclusions. He is an adviser to HEW Secretary John Gardner and the Peace Corps, chairs the Universities Research Association, Inc. (Argonne National Labs), which is building an atomic accelerator. He taught history at Wisconsin, rose from department chairman to president in ten years, has held the job three years...
...year saw sales jump to a record $20.9 billion, with its backlog of orders hitting an $18.6 billion peak. This was the same industry that, after its post-Sputnik missile and satellite surge, felt its fortunes sag. As recently as 1964, the management consultant firm of Arthur D. Little, Inc., declared flatly: "Aerospace is no longer a growing market." Today the Little expert who presided over that report readily admits: "The Viet Cong made a liar out of me." This is true-for the moment. Without question, the U.S. military buildup in Viet Nam gave new life to the aero...
...Corp.'s hot twin-jet F-5 fighter, and the company is developing deep ocean bases for the Navy, building three broadcasting stations in Ethiopia, and teaching budgetary accounting to the Nicaraguan government. Comsat has just placed a $35 million order for 24 satellites with Cleveland-based TRW Inc. Martin Marietta last month won the first production contract, for $12,085,430, for the Walleye glide bomb, a missile that is hauled high by a plane, then unleashed to swoop on an enemy with television guidance...