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...last year when they followed their boss, Semon E. ("Bunkie") Knudsen, from General Motors to Ford, where Knudsen had become president. Three weeks ago, Chairman Henry Ford II fired Knudsen, telling him that "things just didn't work out." Last week Johnston, 44, a top salesman whom Knud sen had made marketing manager of the Lincoln-Mercury division, resigned in protest over the dismissal of his chief...
Interest in pornography has declined markedly since Denmark's carte blanche began, and sales of all forms of blue stuff have correspondingly declined. Says Minister of Justice Knud Thestrup, who led the effort to legalize pornography across the board: "Publishers who printed the books tried to counter falling sales by price reductions, but even this was not successful." One of those publishers is Stig Vendelkjaer, whose titles include I, a Woman. "I have 500,000 unsold books in stock," he complains. "Heaven knows how I shall ever get rid of them." Hardest hit of all, perhaps, are the obsequious...
...more than $300 million, and at least another $200 million in contracts is planned for coming months. The projects are being carried out by four private U.S. construction and engineering firms that have banded together in a giant venture called RMK-BRJ. The four: Raymond International of Manhattan, Morrison-Knud-sen of Boise, Idaho (sponsor of the combine), Brown & Root of Houston and J. A. Jones of Charlotte, N.C. RMK-BRJ employs 1,433 American civilians and 22,710 Vietnamese on 40 major projects and 100 lesser ones...
...contract that yields low profits but eliminates the hazard of loss. More important, this system gives the contractor an incentive to get the job done as quickly as possible. The amount of the fees involved is a closely kept secret. Says the combine's overall boss, Morrison-Knud-sen Vice President Lyman D. Wilbur, who runs the operation from a windowless, green-painted office at No. 2 Duy-Tan Street in Saigon: "We think it's too little and the Government thinks it's too much...
...best of our overseas stringers find themselves collaborating these weeks on an international story that has special nuances in their countries: the marriage of Denmark's Princess Anne-Marie to Greece's King Constantine. TIME'S man on this story in Copenhagen is Knud Meister (cable address: TIMEISTER), one of Denmark's best-known journalists. A top staff member of Copenhagen's leading daily, Berlingske Tidende, he is also author of many books. For the past year, Meister's daughter, Birgit, 22, who wants to follow in her father's journalistic path...