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...presidential campaign, and Richard L. Herman, former national committeeman from Nebraska. From the left are former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and Robert Douglass, a New York attorney who is close to Nelson Rockefeller. In the center are Bryce Harlow, an old White House hand (now a lobbyist for Procter & Gamble) who was an adviser to Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon; former Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, a longtime congressional ally of Ford's; and another old friend, Leon Parma, group executive for Teledyne, Inc. in San Diego, who served as the top staffer on the G.O.P. congressional campaign committee for twelve...
...Mary E. Procter '63, Terry F. Lenzner '61 and Adele Simmons '63 met with the residents "to see whether Harvard's community relations people are doing the best job that can be done." Brett Donham '60, of the Cambridge Civic Association, said yesterday...
...show to demonstrate how a chemist will link molecules together to make fibers for, say, Du Pont. Sometimes I float my wife in the air to emphasize the lightness of a fabric." Conjurer Milbourne Christopher, historian of the art, has floated a cake of soap in mid-air for Procter & Gamble, and produced a sales manager out of an empty box for American Motors...
...only after 14 months of deadlock and costly delays in introducing productive machines. Also, too many managers are convinced that people do not want to work and need tight supervision. Yet experiments in rotating assignments and granting more on-the-job autonomy to employees have increased output at Procter & Gamble, IBM and AT&T, among many other firms. At Motorola, portable beepers for paging doctors and others are no longer assembled on lines; one worker gets the satisfaction of putting the whole unit together. At Kaiser Aluminum's plant in Ravenswood, W. Va., maintenance costs and tardiness fell after...
...lean as its 6-ft. 1-in., 172-lb. boss. Worldwide billings for its clients, which include Chrysler, Goodyear, Eastern Air Lines, General Foods and Procter & Gamble, rose from $493 million in 1970 to $563 million in 1972. That figure automatically climbed to $627 million with two acquisitions. Last February, Y & R bought out Sudler & Hennessey, the nation's largest ad agency in the medical-magazine field (billings: $34 million). Last week Ney picked up Wunderman, Ricotta & Kline, which has billings of $30 million and is the largest agency in direct-response advertising, the field in which consumers order...