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...female complement; she directs Ananda Marga's women's liberation sector. Shrii Sarkar has assumed the burden of his own obligations during his entire life. As a younger man, he worked as an accountant at a railway factory (he gave lectures during lunch hour); now, as prime mover and Guru of Ananda Marga, he and his family refuse all gifts and live instead on the meager profits from his cheaply printed books...
...part Morton makes no secret of the fact that he has long wanted the job. "It's a tremendous opportunity to move the power of the bureaucracy," he says. Morton has always been a mover within established systems. A Yale graduate, he successfully managed his Kentucky family's milling business and one of his older brother Thruston's campaigns for Senator. In the early 1950s, he moved to Maryland to be a gentleman farmer, but in 1962 he decided to run for Congress. Affable and articulate, he soon became a popular legislator, serving first on the Interior...
Individual Faculty members from both the right and the left were beginning to stake out their own territories in Faculty meetings. Hilary Putnam was the SDS man on the Faculty, Martin L. Kilson, Professor of Government, was the Young People's Socialist League representative: Mendelsohn, a young political mover named Mark Ptashne, lecturer in Biology, and George Wald. Higgins Professor of Biology, became the Moratorium spokesmen...
...major mover in the securities markets, Howard Stein is deeply concerned by Wall Street's difficulties. He has brought together, and acts as quarterback for, a group of seven leading moneymen, who travel from many parts of the U.S. to meet regularly, usually at Dreyfus' Manhattan headquarters, to discuss inflation and the economy, the problems of the brokerage business and the future structure of the exchanges. Among the men who attend the four-hour sessions are Thomas Reeves of Investors Diversified Services, Wellington Fund's John Bogle, Mellon Bank's Lloyd Pederson, InterCapital's Fred Stein (no kin), and Kidder...
...down as chairman of the supervisory board, which was established to keep an eye on management during the switch away from family control. Abs' successor is Berthold Beitz, 56. a gregarious supersalesman who had been Krupp's general manager for 14 years. Since Beitz was the prime mover behind Krupp's disastrous financial policy, the promotion represented something of a comeback...