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Strong Advice. At 80, Flick still has a ramrod-straight back. Virtually his only relaxation is strolling alone, head down, through the vast park surrounding Haus Hobeck, his spacious 15-room villa near Düsseldorf. On the job he avoids all small talk, turns out a prodigious amount of work each day at the 100-man headquarters of his holding company on two rented floors in Düsseldorf. He is frequently on the phone to such key managers as Walter Hitzinger of Daimler-Benz, constantly amazes them with his grasp of intricate details...
Married. Jamila, 18, second daughter of Pakistan's ramrod President Mohammed Ayub Khan; and Prince Amir Zaib, 24, second son of the Wali of Swat; in Rawalpindi, Pakistan. Ayub's eldest daughter, Naseem, is married to the Wali's first son, the Waliad Aurangzeb, heir apparent to Pakistan's princely state of Swat...
Harkins, a onetime cavalryman and deputy chief of staff in World War II to hard-driving General George Patton, was nicknamed "Ramrod" because it was his job to see that Patton's orders were obeyed swiftly and efficiently. Boston-born, Harkins has a reputation for tact and diplomacy as well as drive and discipline, all of which he will need in the job ahead. The U.S. is committed to a three-stage "pacification" program in Viet Nam that calls for 1) anti-guerrilla training and military re-equipment of the Vietnamese army, 2) swift-moving offensive operations against...
...even where the government is strongest, North Italy's private industry manages to flourish. Though the state produces 55% of Italy's steel, Milan's Falck Steel succeeds by specializing in high-grade alloys. Periodic talk of nationalization of the electric power industry fails to faze ramrod-backed Giorgio Valeric, 57, managing director of Italy's largest utility, the Edison Group. Snaps Valerio: "We've doubled output in ten years, and we're still going ahead. Politicians are conservatives. We industrialists, we are the revolutionaries...
Died. General Robert Lawrence Eichelberger, 75, tall, rugged ramrod of the Pacific War who led the first successful U.S. ground offensive against the Japanese at New Guinea's bloody Buna Beach, later commanded the famed "Amphibious Eighth" Army in more than 60 amphibious assaults, and was the first U.S. general officer to land in conquered Japan; of pneumonia following surgery; in Asheville, N.C. A soldier's soldier who believed that "the best way for a general to find out what is happening is to go up where the bullets are being fired," West Pointer Eichelberger saw his first...