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California's Edgar Kaiser, 56, is an uncommonly sentimental tycoon. Whenever he sees his father, the legendary Henry J. Kaiser, 82, he greets the old man with a warm hug and a kiss. Two weeks ago, when Edgar was decorated with Brazil's Order of the Southern Cross, the tears flowed freely down his cheeks. On business matters, however, Edgar Kaiser is eminently dry-eyed. Finally stepping out of his father's long shadow, he has taken full charge of the family's 100-company empire and spread the business into 40 countries on six continents...
Rising on Risks. Next week Edgar Kaiser will jet from his headquarters in Oakland, Calif., to Venezuela, where Kaiser engineers head a consortium of companies from five nations that is building the $137 million Guri Dam. Meanwhile, Kaiser Aluminum is busy putting up new plants in West Berlin, Turkey and Japan. Kaiser Steel has just closed the largest trade deal in Australia's history: with a local partner, it will sell $600 million worth of iron ore to Japan over the next 15 years. Kaiser Cement & Gypsum this month opened a mill in Florida, and later this year will...
Like his father, Edgar rushes in where the timid fear to tread, following the company's slogan-"Find a need, and fill it." Optimism is the cornerstone of the Kaiser philosophy, and Edgar argues with folksy persuasion that the world's needs are bound to rise so fast that he would be foolish not to try to meet them...
Actually, the demands placed on modern stained glass exceed even those imposed on Gothic craftsmanship. For Berlin's Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church, Loire constructed 22,000 foot-square glass blocks. No two are alike; all are completely abstract. The canons of modern architecture can make a well-lit garage as well as a bright cathedral, but building to enlighten man's soul requires a special illumination. Says Glassmaker Loire: "A stained glass window should be something unreal-something between heaven and earth-which, in fact, it literally...
...three big aluminum producers are deep in real estate. Having invested $41 million in ten projects in six cities, Aluminum Co. of America is not only landlord to 9,000 Manhattan families, but also owns additional housing in Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Indianapolis, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Kaiser Industries and Kai ser Aluminum are part owners of a $20 million, 135-sq.-mi. site for a new city near San Diego. Reynolds Metals has completed 1,588 units of renewal housing in Cincinnati, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Richmond and Washington, D.C., has $397 million worth under way or planned in six cities...