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From a fortresslike grey stone headquarters beside the Thames near Parliament, the directors of Britain's largest nongovernment enterprise supervise an imperial giant with bases in 48 nations. Led by lean, nimble Chairman Stanley Paul Chambers, 59. they run their decentralized, globe-circling operation with the same easy writing-paper informality with which it was founded. That and a tigerlike lunge for new business last week enabled I.C.I, to announce 1962 sales that rose 5% to $1.6 billion and earnings that jumped 14% to $91.8 million...
Choosing with Care. Preparing for the formal changeover this week, Pearson picked his Cabinet with care, balancing off the oldtimers who had stayed with him in the lean years against the bright newcomers he himself had recruited. The key job of Secretary of State for External Affairs goes to Paul Martin, 59, who lost the Liberal leadership to Pearson in 1958, but loyally stayed on as a foreign relations expert; Pearson's Finance Minister will be Walter Gordon, 57, a Toronto management consultant and close friend, who spent the week working on the budget Pearson has promised for June...
...picture and shove it. I'm getting out of here in the morning." But next morning the rebel would be found still unpacked, explaining sheepishly: "Aww, I decided to stay . . . But I gave Sam a piece of my mind." He had been spiegelized. Lawrence's Director, David Lean, alternately raged ("The s.o.b. doesn't understand me at all") or, spiegelized, praised ("I worked in Jordan for five months and never saw a foot of film. I didn't have to. I knew I could rely on Sam in London to tell me whether I was getting...
Power Seekers. This apparently was enough for Rab Butler. He called in Welensky and Southern Rhodesia's Prime Minister Winston Field, a lean, enigmatic farmer who is less interested in the fate of the federation than in seeing to it that Southern Rhodesia's 221,000 whites retain political control of the state's 3,00,000 blacks. Butler announced Britain's decision: no territory would be kept in the federation against its will...
...Lean at the Top. Under Managing Director Hakan Abenius, 60, a grave and quiet Swede who took over in 1948, the company is steadily branching out, has three plants abroad, and is now part of a consortium developing molybdenum deposits in Greenland. Last year Stora's sales were about $153 million, are expected to rise slightly this year. Despite its advanced age, Stora has avoided hardening of the arteries by keeping its upper echelon lean (only 16% of its staff are salaried white-collar workers v. 25% for the average Swedish firm) and its plants remarkably efficient...