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Many of the Los Angeles Times's proudest achievements lie behind it, the work of a fiery Union Army colonel who charged into the city in the 1880s. From the editor's desk chair, Harrison Gray Otis directed Los Angeles' destiny as if that stretch of parched Western littoral were his private command. His editorials helped break the railroads' throttle hold on the city; his campaigns got a harbor built and brought desperately needed water 240 miles over the mountains from the Owens River. Before Otis died, the Times was a dominant Los Angeles institution. Like...
...Cover ) For seven generations, one European family has dominated an incredible part of all that money can buy. Its escutcheon-a profusion of noble coronets, intrepid lions and soaring eagles-is carved in stone amidst the proudest vineyards of Bordeaux. On the Continent's most prized race horses, its blue and yellow colors proclaim a devotion to the sport of kings that has produced profit as well as pleasure. From its London and Paris banks, the family's millions have been sent forth to back more than 100 business enterprises on six continents. Some of its stately dwellings...
...shalwar pantaloons, improved the service and the food. One of the few world-airline chiefs who can fly his own jets -and sometimes does-Khan has increased PIA's fleet to 20 planes and extended routes until they now stretch from Rangoon to New York. But he is proudest of PIA's vital role in linking Pakistan's divided nation-separated by 1,000 miles of India-and in bringing the advantage of modern transportation to a backward land. "Just think," he says: "many of the farmers flying in our planes have never worn shoes...
...Achievement. If President Kennedy himself were to have named the achievement of which he felt proudest, it probably would have been the signing of the nuclear test ban treaty...
...proudest thing Daimler-Benz has created since Walter Hitzinger, 55, took over two years ago as chairman of the vastly successful automaker (1962 sales: $900 million). Though the decision to build the 600 had been made earlier, Hitzinger sped it along in the belief that the company should resume its prewar practice of producing an "ultraprestige" auto for nobles and moguls. Production will not begin in earnest until next summer, but Daimler-Benz already has orders for more than...