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Nikita Khrushchev, to whose realistic appraisal of the totality of thermonuclear warfare and respect for human life you and I, as well as a billion others in the northern hemisphere, owe an expression of gratitude that we are still alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Dec. 28, 1962 | 12/28/1962 | See Source »

...other than to propagate, project or proclaim something. What else can he do? And if he is a truly great artist, this something will be of fundamental value and meaning to all peoples, at all times, and in all places. Baldwin is such an artist and we owe him far more than Cowan is willing to grant

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: James Baldwin | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

...certainly did not mean to criticize Baldwin for rocking the boat, or to deny that we owe him a great deal. If Mr. Kilson misunderstood me I can only apologize, and question whether it was my words or his presuppositions that occasioned the misunderstanding. Martin Kilson Lecturer in Government...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: James Baldwin | 12/7/1962 | See Source »

Hunting for executive talent, state-run companies often raid private industry. When Norway after the war determined to expand an aluminum plant that the German occupiers had built, the government sought the services of slender Aage Owe (pronounced Oh-veh), the chief of a privately owned margarine monopoly. Engineer Owe accepted the presidency of the firm-which became known simply as The Aluminum Co.-only after he won the right to hire his own staff ("I wanted to have the same advantages as my privately owned competitors. I didn't want state bureaucrats...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Europe's Businessmen Bureaucrats | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

Plowing all the profits into modernization instead of paying dividends as some politicians wish, Owe, who is now 68, has increased yearly sales to $53 million and production to 160,000 tons. That is twice the combined output of Norway's four private aluminum companies-and almost all of it is exported to bring in much-needed foreign exchange...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World Business: Europe's Businessmen Bureaucrats | 11/30/1962 | See Source »

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