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...nation's largest public school system last week fell victim to a collision between two significant contemporary movements: the justifiable, and not necessarily incompatible, yearnings for teacher power and for black power. All but a handful of New York City's 900 schools were twice shut down by strikes as the tightly disciplined United Federation of Teachers confronted a predominantly Negro community in an angry struggle over teacher assignments...
...promote their clients' products. A notable and reticent exception is Norman Hulbert Strouse, 61, chairman and for seven years chief executive of J. Walter Thompson, who quietly announced last week that he was going into early retirement. Closing out a 40-year career with the world's largest ad agency, Strouse wanted no fanfare and got none. From his corner office he sorted out personal belongings, which include 100 owls in a collection started in the days when a wise old owl was J. Walter's trademark. Strouse had a final cup of coffee and a last...
FORTUNE'S 500, an annual ranking of the largest U.S. industrial corporations, has long been a kind of Burke's Peerage of business. Less widely known is FORTUNE'S listing of the top 200 foreign industries. The results of the overseas survey, as published in the magazine's current issue, will come as an eye opener to most U.S. businessmen...
Although the move had the government's blessing, the merger between British G.E. and English Electric into Britain's sixth largest company (combined sales: $2.2 billion) raised fears of monopoly both within and outside the electrical industry. The new firm would rank among the world's five biggest electrical companies, accounting for 90% of Britain's output of railway locomotives and up to half of the country's turbo generators, switchgear and transformers. The potential of the new combine's market domination prompted executives of Plessey Co. Ltd., a smaller electrical firm, to denounce...
...million issue of Utah convertible Eurobonds offered to non-American buyers. The company will borrow another $50 million or so from banks in the U.S. and abroad. All the money will be used in the development of a promising new coal field in Australia, which represents Utah's largest single undertaking...