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Sir: The events of the past few weeks have provided Mr. Meany with a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fulfill the promise of his past accomplishments and become the statesman that labor so desperately needs. Regrettably, he chose not to seize that opportunity, proving once again by his childlike...
By his own account, Richard Charles Gerstenberg got his first big break at General Motors by helping justify the company's price increases in hearings before the Office of Price Administration during World War 11. "I spent months in Washington working on the detailed end of the assignment," he...
Gerstenberg, who must retire within three years under the same rule that cleared the way for his election, will aim mainly during that period to improve G.M.'s net profits. During the first three quarters of 1971, they rose to $1.4 billion; or a margin of 6.7% on sales...
Off-Field Activities. And scared a lot of owners. Two years ago, when the Red Sox traded Ken ("the Hawk") Harrelson, the American League's Player of the Year, to the Cleveland Indians, Woolf craftily advised the flamboyant outfielder to "retire," on the grounds that the move would jeopardize...
Died. Colonel Rudolf Abel, 68, head of a Soviet spy network in the U.S. between 1948 and 1957; of lung cancer; in Moscow. Though he was later to deny that espionage consists of "riproaring adventures [or] a string of tricks," Abel had his share of both. He was an accomplished...