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...Francisco's venerable Levi Strauss & Co. (Levi pants) has long held out against sales contests, gimmicks and giveaways, convinced that the only way to boost sales is to get the salesman to work harder. Last week Strauss & Co. broke tradition and decided to give its salesmen one big reason to work harder: a sales-incentive program for its staff that pays them a cash bonus for new accounts or sales over quotas. In so doing, it joined the growing number of U.S. firms that are putting new stress on sales-incentive programs to combat the recession...
...brother of Cinemactor J. Carrol Naish, graduated from Fordham in '29, learned the industry from the bottom (he started as a mechanic) before he joined Convair in 1947, became executive vice president in 1952. ¶Walter A. Haas Jr., 42, vice president of San Francisco's famed Levi Strauss & Co., stepped up to president, succeeding his uncle (by marriage), Daniel E. Koshland, 65. Haas represents the fourth generation of Strausses to run the 108-year-old firm that has made "Levi's" a synonym for all blue jeans. Son of Board Chairman Walter A. Haas, he graduated...
Frank H. Westheimer, Research Professor of Chemistry, received the largest individual grant, $42,000. Others to benefit from the Foundation grants include George B. Kistiakowsky, Abbott and James Lawrence Professor of Chemistry; Herbert W. Levi, Associate Curator of Arachnology; R. Duncan Luce, lecturer on Social Relations; Paul C. Mangelsdorf, Chairman of the Institute for Research in Experimental and Applied Botany...
...scrawny cowpoke draped over the bars of the end stall looked like anything but a big money man. His ancient riding boots were scuffed and patched; the brown leather chaps over his faded Levi's had seen better days. But he had the casual swagger of a champ. He ran a cool eye over Gold Dollar, a mean-looking palomino, and climbed aboard. Outside the chute, San Francisco's Cow Palace echoed to the voice of the announcer: "The first three-time all-around cowboy champion in history-Jim Shoulders...
...Good luck.' " As the tanker passed through the narrow and disputed Strait of Tiran, the captain ordered the flag dipped in salute to the UNEF troops garrisoning the Egyptian base at Sharm el Sheikh. UNEF fired an answering rocket in recognition. "A historic day!" cried Israeli Finance Minister Levi Eshkol as the tanker began pumping its cargo into newly finished tanks on the barren shore. Israeli crowds went wild with excitement, dancing the Hora, and the national radio interrupted its Sabbath music program to announce the great news...