Word: interests
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Francisco Examiner before coming to Architectural Forum in 1951. In 1954, he went to work full-time for House & Home and rose to become managing editor before its sale in 1964. Next step was TIME, where he specializes in economic affairs. Outside the office, a major interest is the Blue Hill Troupe, which stages Gilbert & Sullivan operettas in the New York area. For Blue Hill, taxes pose no problems at all. As the troupe's constitution puts...
Where to Meet? Ojukwu's government announced that the "people of Biafra look forward with interest to a visit by the British Prime Minister." Yet a meeting between the two leaders is complicated. Wilson can scarcely visit Ojukwu in Biafra and thereby award tacit British recognition to the rebel government. Ojukwu is unlikely to accept alternative talks aboard a British warship such as Wilson and Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith held last year...
...income tax surcharge was covered by their withholding taxes. The federal budget will soon shift to a slight surplus after three years of inflationary deficits. At this point, top Administration officials figure that present measures will begin to bring inflation under control-perhaps without another dose of higher interest rates...
...canniest practitioners. In time, he parlayed nerve and some fancy forms of financing into control of a string of businesses in such diverse fields as retailing and men's wear, building products and theaters. Now that conglomerates are running into all sorts of head winds, Riklis' own interest seems to be veering from making mergers to simply managing his $2 billion annual sales complex...
Riklis is not swearing off mergers entirely, but he is showing an unusual interest in such mundane goals as cutting costs and expanding markets. By internal growth alone, he figures that in five years he can more than double his profits, which he estimates will come to about $47 million in 1969. Since he took over Schenley (1968 sales: $550 million) last fall, he has shaved its operating costs by $10 million. He did it partly by firing surplus executives and partly by setting up inventory procedures that, he says, are at last forcing wholesalers "to learn how to order...