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Opel is a quintessential product of IBM. The holder of an M.B.A. from the University of Chicago, he started out as an IBM salesman in Jefferson City, Mo., and has spent his entire 32-year career at the company. A scholarly-looking man known to his colleagues as "the Brain," Opel commands the company's work force of 341,279 employees from the firm's headquarters in Armonk...
NONFICTION: The Eisenhower Diaries, edited by Robert H. Ferrell Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, Dumas Malone ∙The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot ∙Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough ∙Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman ∙Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg
...Clemente in 1969. But Nixon, unlike Reagan, took along most of his staff, wore a coat and tie constantly, designated his home the Western White House and clearly ran the Government from there, as people and paper shuttled constantly cross-continent on red-eye flights. When President Thomas Jefferson was criticized for his long vacations, he cited George Washington as his precedent for escaping the swampy capital in August and September. Said he: "Grumble who will, I will never pass those two months on tide-water...
Shortly after midnight last Wednesday, five cases of Dom Perignon 1970 champagne (price per bottle: $100) were uncorked in a banquet room of the Hotel Du Pont, located in the same gray granite building as Du Pont and Co.'s headquarters in Wilmington, Del. Chairman Edward Jefferson had gathered some 60 top advisers, secretaries, chauffeurs and the pilots of the company's jets to celebrate Du Pont's victory in the greatest takeover struggle in American corporate history. Only 160 miles to the north, in Stamford, Conn., Conoco executives met in Chairman Ralph Bailey's office...
NONFICTION: The Eisenhower Diaries, edited by Robert H. Ferrell Jefferson and His Time: The Sage of Monticello, Dumas Malone ∙ The Lord God Made Them All, James Herriot ∙ Mornings on Horseback, David McCullough ∙ Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, Jacobo Timerman ∙ Within the Whirlwind, Eugenia Ginzburg