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When Gray became United's chief executive in 1972, the company was known chiefly for its Pratt & Whitney jet engines. Since then, he has expanded by buying several firms, including Otis Elevator in 1976 and Carrier, the air-conditioner manufacturer, in 1979. Over the years, Gray's opponents have reportedly called the slow-speaking but fast-moving Georgian a robber baron, a buzzard, Dracula, Jack the Ripper and King Kong. Few of his takeover thrusts have been thwarted, however...
...Gordon W. Rule, 75, civilian chief of procurement for the Navy who was a relentless, irreverent Government cost cutter; of cancer; in Arlington, Va. Often battling with military, congressional and corporate brass, he saved uncounted taxpayer dollars from 1963 to 1976, most notably when he carved $100 million from Pratt & Whitney's bill for F-111 jet engines...
...were terse, sometimes merely a clipped "Yes" to senatorial inquiries that were often more speech than question. He had two bulging briefcases at his feet, but never once reached into them to search for a paper that would provide an answer. Confident, but with no hint of arrogance, George Pratt Shultz, 61, provided a reassuring display of his Washington-wise competence as he went about winning unanimous confirmation by the Senate as the 60th U.S. Secretary of State...
...York, was another such friend; Lorena Hickok seems merely to have been the most important of Eleanor's attachments. By the time their friendship was cooling, in the early war years, the First Lady had two other favorites: Joe Lash and his wife-to-be, Trude Pratt...
...amazement was tinged with apprehension too. Not, to be sure, because of any misgivings about the ability of the man that Reagan chose as Haig's replacement. As Secretary of the Treasury and economic-policy coordinator in the Nixon Administration, George Pratt Shultz, 61, earned a reputation as a team player who could win cooperation from officials with strongly divergent views; he might be able to avoid the bureaucratic battles that gave Haig so much trouble in bringing "consistency, clarity and steadiness of purpose" to American foreign policy. Though Shultz has no formal diplomatic background, his negotiations with foreign...