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...whole operation had gone better "than we had any right to expect." According to the Defense Department, 1,373 Americans and 5,680 South Vietnamese-many more than the U.S. had originally intended-had been removed. Another 32,000 desperate Vietnamese had managed to make their way by sampan, raft and rowboat to the U.S. ships offshore, bringing to about 70,000 the number evacuated through the week...
...sixth year, the O.B. program offers ten-day wilderness orientation courses and three-day raft trips to executives and middle managers anxious to gain greater confidence and emotional security by mastering physical challenges. As Charles C. Gates Jr., president of the Denver-based Gates Rubber Co., explains the idea: "The brain doesn't work well if the body is dead. People need physical as well as mental challenges throughout their lives." Outward Bound President Joseph
Despite the hardships, each year some 600 executives sign up for O.B.'s raft trips and another 60 for the more grueling ten-day hikes. In many cases the tab, ranging from $200 to $400 per person, is picked up by the company. Eastman Kodak, IBM, Gates Rubber, Adolph Coors Co., a beer producer, and Martin-Marietta regularly pay the way for their management personnel. William Coors, president of Adolph Coors, has himself scaled canyons and run rapids on ten O.B. trips. Robert H. Allen, president of Gulf Resources & Chemical Corp., has braved...
Renewed Energy. Many companies have adopted the O.B. program to meet highly specific corporate needs. When a feud developed between members of the research and production staffs at Johns-Manville, the insulating-and building-materials maker, President Richard Goodwin sent representatives from the two departments on a weeklong raft trip. Forced to act as a team on the river, the group quickly ended the rift. The trip is now an annual event. At the Gates Rubber plant in Denver, lower and middle managers who are being groomed for promotion are sent out into the wilderness to prepare them for greater...
...reasonable conclusion is that one can maintain a proper distance from the fate of a particular team and still love baseball. And I accepted this the afternoon after that disheartening loss in mid-September when I repaired to Fenway's rightfield bleachers--450 feet from the plate--with a raft of nonpartisan Harvard students. My team won that day, however, and I was right back on the band-wagon...