Word: kappel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chrysler transmission had dropped out after only 2,000 miles and another beefed about a sticky car window. A.T. & T.'s 80th annual meeting in Philadelphia was interrupted by a woman who raced down the aisle in clown's costume to protest that Chairman Frederick R. Kappel had opened the meeting improperly. "Keep still long enough," barked Kappel, "and I'll answer your questions. This meeting is not being run by Robert's [Rules of Order]; it's being run by me." Three guards and a policewoman finally restrained the clown, but Kappel was constantly...
...Taft-Hartley law's section authorizing state right-to-work laws. Then, after sandwiching in a buffet supper for some 1,500 White House staffers, the President greeted 14 business leaders. As he always does, Johnson impressed the businessmen, and A. T. & T.'s Frederick R. Kappel spoke for them all when he reported that the President "is being extremely wise in his thoughtful evaluation" of the U.S. economy...
...friendly executive whose great strength is persuasion and persistence; his skill is convincing people that the impossible is possible-and then seeing that it gets done. Moving up from A.T. & T.'s vice chairmanship, he becomes the firm's chief operating executive under Chairman Frederick R. Kappel, who faces mandatory retirement at 65 in January...
...Washington operator: the Federal Communications Commission. Last week the FCC announced an annual $100 million reduction in long-distance telephone rates that will decrease A.T. & T.'s rate of return on interstate telephone operations from its present 7.9% to only 7% . A.T. & T.was obviously displeased. Chairman Frederick Kappel termed the reductions "out of step with the Government's efforts to encourage economic growth." But there is little doubt that subscribers will be happy to heed the call...
...Frederick R. Kappel...