Word: marinas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Marina Whitman, the newly appointed chief economist of General Motors, I claims that she can almost cite the fateful day when the men who run New York City's banks declared: "O.K., fellas, we've got to let them in." Them are American women, and it was only half a dozen years ago that they began to be admitted, little by little, to the executive establishment. Whitman knows because when she meets groups of bankers, she sees more and more women junior executives, poised for that big leap up to higher management. But almost...
...business leaders of 1974 have generally been successful. Raymond Hay switched from an executive vice presidency at Xerox to the presidency of LTV. Gerald Meyers rose from vice president to chairman and chief executive of American Motors. Economics Professor Marina Whitman will start next month as chief economist and vice president at General Motors. The biggest losers among the businessmen were Arthur Taylor, eased out of the presidency of CBS, and Richard Kattel, the boy wonder of Atlanta's go-go banking days, who resigned his chairmanship of Citizens and Southern National Bank. The Comptroller of the Currency...
...craft that combined the best and avoided the worst of both. After selling a few models to friends, Schweitzer left his job as vice president of a computer service firm, bought out Drake's interest and founded Windsurfing International Inc. Today the firm employs 80 at its Marina Del Rey factory and will turn out 12,000 boards this year. There are a wider, more stable version for kids and beginners ($595), the standard model ($745) and the "Rocket," with foot straps for better control at high speeds ($795). Sailrider Inc. of South Salem, N.Y., this year will produce...
...iron poet" of the Revolution had slumped temporarily when he put a bullet through his all too vulnerable heart at the age of 36. Obsessed with suicide all his life, he finally, for no clearly discernible reason, "did away with himself as he would an enemy," as another poet, Marina Tsvetayeva, remarked. Official reservations about Mayakovsky's posthumous status were dissipated by Stalin in 1935, when he declared him to be the most talented poet of the Soviet era. "Indifference to his memory and to his work is a crime," he added menacingly...
...TIME Board of Economists; Jesse Hill, Atlanta businessman; Reginald Jones, board chairman of the General Electric Co.; Lawrence Klein, economics professor at the University of Pennsylvania; Arthur Okun, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution and a member of the TIME Board of Economists; Harold Somers, economics professor at U.C.L.A.; Marina Whitman, economics professor...