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Clearly Gyllenhammar is no run-of-the-line auto magnate. He came to Volvo without any experience in manufacturing of any kind. He studied at both the University of Lund and London University, spent five months in 1960 with a law firm in Manhattan, then joined a small Swedish insurance company. He later followed his father as managing director of Skandia, Sweden's largest insurer. He is married to the daughter of the former Volvo chief executive, but no one in the company doubts that Gyllenhammar would have made it to the top without his family ties. Generally acknowledged...
...ROGER A. LUND...
...froze prices; now they are going through the roof. It is much too early to tell how well the four-week-old 1972 model year will turn out, but it is clearly off to a fast start. "It is our best introductory period in history," says Robert D. Lund, Chevrolet's general sales manager. Adds Ben Bidwell, Lincoln-Mercury general manager: "Our dealers have never seen anything like today's boom...
...farm still run by one of his brothers, Jarring, 62, was called into the army on the eve of World War II. He was posted to the Swedish embassy in Ankara because of his knowledge of Turkish, which he had learned as a student at Sweden's Lund University. On a later assignment in Teheran, he spent off-duty hours hiking the countryside on language-studying trips. Once, when he had wandered across the Uzbekistan border by mistake, he reportedly spent a couple of nights in a Russian jail. One of his favorite relaxations has been the compiling...
Alluding frequently to Marxist doctrine, Carmichaol said that the first step for the world's African people was to control a portion of lund-"Mother Africa." From there, he said, "we expand... to crush the monsters of imperialism" like the United States...