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...raise. He quickly had to arrange a $290 million line of credit, as he says, "just to keep the company afloat." All but a few of White's high executives had left; to replace them, Knudsen recruited from the senior ranks of GM, Chrysler, Ford, Borg Warner, Sperry Rand and W.R. Grace. Then he consolidated the company's many truck lines, which were engaged in a debilitating competition against each other. After selling off Diamond Reo, he pulled together the four remaining lines-Autocar, White, White Freightliner and White Western Star -under one marketing group and advertised them...
...king without subjects, a drunk who drinks to forget his shame of drinking, a businessman who has deluded himself into thinking that he owns the stars. Yet though it is a "message" book. Saint Exupery's prose is so delightfully disarming that even the most devoted of Ayn Rand's flock could swallow...
...WITH COMMENTS on that issue he ends the collection. The book is neither the story of the progressive disappointment of a Rand Corporation Department of Defense insider, nor is it a comprehensive examination of American Indochinese policy. Rather, it is Ellsberg's multifaceted and discontinuous response to the impact and nature of American policy in a variety of arenas...
...trivia is very intriguing. The idea of the Chief Justice of the United States meeting reporters who have come to visit him in the middle of the night with a long-barrelled pistol is a novelty of considerable entertainment value. Descriptions of the Rand Corporation are interesting, though they tend to focus more on the place's interior decoration and mickey-mouse office rules than its serious functioning. But by itself the trivia is insufficient to carry the book, and aside from that there is not that much there...
...nine months since its inception, the Libertarian Party nationally has grown to a paid membership of 1500. Approximately one third characterize themselves as "free market anarchists," despite the Party's limited-state platform, while the rest describe themselves as followers of Ayn Rand, Milton Friedman or Robert Heinlein...