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Continental is headed by French-born Michel Fribourg, 59, a shrewd, aggressive executive, whose family founded the firm in Belgium more than 150 years ago. Cargill was started a little over a century ago by W.W. Cargill, a Wisconsin farm lad. The company's present chairman, Irwin E. Kelm, has the distinction of being the first chief from outside the Cargill and MacMillan related families, who still hold 90% of the stock...
Turning to Gold. Five Cargill heirs hold top jobs in the company today, but the current president is the first up-from-the-ranks outsider, Erwin E. Kelm, 51. With a sharp eye for the grain that can turn to gold, Kelm enthusiastically favors selling wheat to the Reds. "Trade tends to beget trade," he says, "and this might well help the relationship between the countries...