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...other ambitious Arab businessmen. He tripled his total staff to 500, is converting his business from handwritten, single-entry ledgers to computers, has trained a corps of crack salesmen and sent his technicians off to Beirut, England and the U.S. for training. Handling dealerships for such companies as Chrysler, Kaiser Jeep, Gulf Oil, Philco, Whirlpool and National Cash Register, Bader has ridden on Kuwait's boom. Last year his sales included 1,000 cars, 4,000 air conditioners (the Kuwait temperature goes up to 125°), three jet planes, and $600,000 worth of N.C.R. equipment. He is building...
...shock of her loss to kill him, but he continued his work with undiminished vigor. By his casual count, he had earned 24 honorary degrees, 10 decorations. 32 awards, and belonged to 33 scientific societies. Last week, while visiting Aachen, the city where he made his mark in the Kaiser's Germany, the old professor died of a heart attack. He was 81. He had lived with aviation since its infancy and had woven the bright thread of his thought through every strand of its history...
...black umbrellas at Ophelia's burial; a Laertes who waves a revolver in Claudius' face and a Claudius who gets the revolver and slyly pockets the cartridges, like a silent-movie badman. If Guthrie seems to scramble his props, mixing candles with flashlights, snap-brim fedoras with Kaiser Wilhelm helmets, it may be that he means to suggest the wild and whirling confusion of Hamlet's brain, the visible signs of time uncontrollably out of joint. But apparently even the most forceful director can control only the circumference of Hamlet and never its center. The decisive tone...
...Henry J. Kaiser, 80, and his son Edgar, 54, have entered into a unique agreement with the Steelworkers union, believing that the best way to keep labor costs reasonable is to peg them to production costs. Last week Kaiser Steel Corp. released the first results of its radical new bonus plan, under which workers divvy up 32.5% of whatever the company saves by cutting costs or increasing productivity. To 3,930 employees went bonuses averaging $79 each for March, when the company was able to save $962,000 against expenses in 1961, the base year. Bonuses ranged from...
...back buying and wiped out the backlogs of orders; automakers have reduced production by 30% and laid off 3,000 workers. Argentina has attracted 26 auto companies in the past four years, but only twelve of them survive; of those, several are in deperate shape and the four biggest-Kaiser, General Motors, Ford, Fiat-together have an annual capacity of 180,000 cars in a nation where only 100,000 were sold last year. In Uruguay and Chile, Ford's assembly plants are almost at a standstill because of an embargo on imported parts caused by a dollar drought...