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Denmark's Godtfred Kirk Christian sen, 47, is fond of remarking that even the best is none too good for children, and he should know what he is talking about: the worldwide success of his Lego toymaking business has all the ingredients of a modern-day Hans Chris tian Andersen fairy tale. An anomaly among internationally minded Danish executives, Christiansen speaks no for eign languages, bases his family-owned enterprise not in Copenhagen but in the remote Jutland village of Billund (pop. 1,300). Nonetheless, his up-from-nothing business has annual sales of more than $30 million...
...Daughter. Christiansen business got its start in Billund during the early 1930s when his father, a carpenter unable to find work in the depressed village, began making wooden toys in his workshop. Naming his enterprise Lego, a contraction for the Danish leg godt (meaning play well), Ole Kirk Christiansen peddled his toys by bicycling about in the surrounding countryside. When Godtfred reached 14 he dropped out of the village school to join his father, after World War II helped swing Lego into the manufacture of plastic toy animals...
...critics say Kirk has unhesitatingly used the tax-supported Florida Development Commission to promote the political development of Claude Kirk. Indeed, the commission reprints his speeches in handy brochures, distributes them widely, and has run up vast bills for photography and publicity. When newspapers revealed last week that the commission had picked up the $1,628 tab for Kirk's honeymoon flight to Germany this fall with his wife, the irrepressible Governor denied nothing and refunded the money forthwith. "Very good reporting," he said. "Suppose a political enemy instead of the press had found it? That would have been...
...Kirk, say his critics, has so confused his own destiny with that of the state that his philosophy should be called "egostatism." Indeed, the Governor cheerfully maintains that what is good for him must perforce be good for Florida. If in the process the former Democrat should find himself the Republicans' vice-presidential choice to bring the South into the fold, he obviously would not mind that either. To that end he grabs every chance to castigate...
...Americans could agree. In October, Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey advised the nation's 4,081 draft boards to strip deferments from students and others who interfere with the draft. Since then, Congressmen, judges and university presidents, including Yale's Kingman Brewster and Columbia's Grayson Kirk, have protested the decision. Kirk even suspended on-campus recruiting by the armed services pending a reversal of Hershey's harsh decree. Massachusetts' Senator Edward Kennedy last week said the new procedure would make draft boards "both judge and jury," and it was not surprising that young people...