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First to arrive this Friday will be Nikita Khrushchev and his plump, matronly wife Nina, aboard a special train from Moscow. After meeting Austrian officials and inspecting an honor guard, the Khrushchevs will motor to suburban Purkersdorf, where the Russian embassy maintains a comfortable villa. Next morning, by jet from France, President Kennedy and Jacqueline are scheduled to touch down on Vienna's Schwechat airfield. After exchanging amenities with Austria's President Adolf Schärf, the Kennedy motorcade will wind through the heart of Vienna and to the U.S. embassy residence in suburban Heitzing, an iron-fenced...
...Chicago, the visitors were taken on a motor tour of the suburbs, passed a trailer court and asked how much rent the tenants paid and how they disposed of their sewage. Daniil Kraminov, editor of the weekly Za Rubezhom (Abroad), was interviewed by Sun-Times Columnist Irv Kupcinet, and noted, with some malice, an example of nepotism in the U.S. press: "Our delegation visited the New York Times, and we learned how you have to be a son-in-law to get promoted. Adolph Ochs made his son-in-law publisher and now [Arthur Hays] Sulzberger is making...
...successor to one of the auto industry's most flamboyant figures, the Ford Motor Co. chose a reflective intellectual. To replace Top Stylist George Walker (TIME cover. Nov. 4, 1957), Ford named as a vice president and the industry's youngest styling director Eugene Bordinat, 41. Bordinat, who styled the Comet and the 1961 Lincoln Continental, is convinced that the U.S. public does not know what it wants in car styling and must be led to good taste by the professionals. The direction in which he will lead: "I like to try to keep things as simple...
...constructive and wholesome for the entire industry." Coals & Cricket. By the time Cresap appeared, the subcommittee was already digging into the possibility that there had been price fixing not only in heavy equipment, the only field covered in the Government's original conspiracy charges, but in electric motors as well. The new dis closures came from William F. Oswalt, who headed General Electric's motor and generator department until he was forced to resign in March. Oswalt testified that on two occasions he discussed prices with competitors at meetings designed "primarily to establish motor reratings," added that...
Armed with this information, Kefauver asked Cresap, who was hired by Westinghouse in 1951 after serving the company as a management consultant, if he had ever investigated his own motor division. He had not-nor had he thoroughly investigated the four Westinghouse departments involved in the heavy-equipment conspiracy, or even spoken with his convicted executives about their part in it. When both Kefauver and Michigan's Senator Philip Hart questioned how Westinghouse could effectively plan to prevent recurrences if it had not made a detailed investigation of the past, Cresap insisted: "I am not making a thorough investigation...