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Clay also has the dangerous habit of leaning back to avoid punches, and, given Liston's two-inch reach advantage, the chances are that Cassius will not be able to lean back far enough...
...opinion-particularly in trade policy toward Communist nations. One thing that Home did inherit from Macmillan was a belief that Khrushchev has renounced nuclear war as an instrument of foreign policy, and that the West would be better served by dealing with a fat Communist than with a lean and hungry one. Home, therefore, is anxious to expand trade with Communism. Britain is holding elections this year, and the idea is politically popular. But Johnson disagreed with his thesis. And, as it happens, he too is up for election, and in the U.S. increased trade is more controversial...
...axiom was one reason that lean, lively Rupert C. Thompson Jr., 58, accepted an invitation seven years ago to succeed Royal Little as head of Rhode Island's vast Textron Inc. Whenever bankers run a company, so went the axiom, the company goes to pot; Thompson, who had spent 28 years in New England banking, wanted to prove that it isn't so. As chairman, he completed Textron's move out of low-profit textiles and into broadly diversified manufacturing. Last week, grown to 26 divisions that produce everything from eyeglasses and iron cookware to rocket engines...
...Enough." Sloan makes it plain that he holds strictly oldfashioned, lean-hound-dog notions about how to run a company. "The final act of business judgment is intuitive," he says, and "no organization is sounder than the men who run it." He makes clear his belief that the chief responsibility of an executive is to make decisions-even at the risk of making wrong ones...
...banks of the River Nile, at a spot not far from the Sudan, crews of lean German engineers last week unloaded their heavy earth-moving equipment, unfurled their geological maps, and began plotting the most daring construction job undertaken in Egypt since the Pharaohs built the Pyramids. Carved in the sandstone cliff above the Germans' camp are the 3,300-year-old monuments of Abu Simbel - two cavernous temples and ten mammoth statues built by Ramses II. The job: to cut these relics out of the cliff side and lift them, piece by piece, to be assembled...