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...Trevi. But Communist newspapers raised a hue and cry about "clerical intolerance," and some of Italy's leading non-Communist papers joined in. Said Turin's liberal La Stampa: "The truth is, not many Italians are horrified by the sight of a girl in shorts." Added the largest newspaper in Italy, Milan's conservative Corriere della Sera, "They are proposing tourism in long pants and hard collars. They will not prevail...
Much can be said for the inside board, to which many big and forward-looking firms still cling steadfastly. They argue that only the president and his executives-men intimately familiar with the corporation's daily operations-can make swift, sure policy decisions. International Shoe Co., the largest U.S. shoe manufacturer, has a 100% inside board to run its highly technical business; the U.S. petroleum industry also leans to inside boards, whose members know all the tricks and pitfalls of their risky business. Says Harmon Whittington, president of Anderson, Clayton & Co., world's largest private cotton broker...
...only private, nonsubsidized European airline, Icelandic is a homegrown business, owned by 700 stockholders in Iceland. Beginning in 1944, when two young Icelanders who had flown with Canada's R.C.A.F. trudged across the country's largest glacier to salvage a crashed Stinson seaplane, it started out as a creaky air service between coastal fishing villages, sent its first DC-4 from Reykjavik to Copenhagen in 1947. It got a transatlantic permit from the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board in 1952, and chose Nick Craig, a Pan American sales executive, as board chairman, president and chief executive. "I did everything...
...denies he ever authored an original P. & G. idea, claims "everything we do is created, adjusted and tested" by his "team." ¶ Dr. Wilbur G. Malcolm, 55, a bacteriologist turned business executive, will take over as president and chief executive of American Cyanamid Co., the nation's seventh largest chemical company (1956 sales: $500 million), succeeding Kenneth C. Towe, 64, who moves up to the newly created position of board chairman. Born in Moscow Mills, Md., Malcolm astonished his family by shooting up to 6 ft. 3 in. in his early teens, earning the lifelong nickname "Weed," whizzed through...
...group that calls itself "the oldest and largest Protestant communion" turned out in Minneapolis last week for an impressive show of strength. The Lutheran World Federation was holding its third assembly (the first in the U.S.), and before its ten-days' sessions were over, some 100,000 people were expected to join the 252 official delegates from 57 church bodies in 29 countries, representing more than two-thirds of the world's 70-odd million Lutherans...