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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Henry C. Alexander, 67, architect of the merger that created Morgan Guaranty Trust, the country's sixth largest commercial bank (assets: $11 billion); of a stroke; in Manhattan. Alexander accepted a partnership in the faltering house of Morgan in 1939, and shook up the stodgy banking community by aggressively scouring the country for new accounts and training a new generation of bright young employees to follow his lead. By 1959, Morgan was a growing, $915 million concern, and Alexander had the stage set for his greatest coup: merger with $3.13 billion Guaranty Trust...
Executive Infighting. The most damaging threat to Mekong development has come from the United Nations. Eager to borrow big money from Robert McNamara's World Bank and other international banks the U.N. shook up the Mekong management two months ago in a way intended to heighten its appeal to Western capitalists and Asian Communists alike. Dr. C. Hart Schaaf, 57, an outspoken and visionary Indiana professor who in ten years as chief executive became known as "Mr. Mekong," was reassigned to Ceylon. U.N. executives felt that the chief should be non-American, particularly if the project is ultimately...
...climbed down to the pool area afterwards, and diving coach Harold Miroff came by with a wide grin and shook my hand, congratulating me. Then I hung around so that I could ask the Army coach what he though of the meet and could see a few Cadets walking around in uniform. And I thought about the profitability of going into the barber business in the West Point area...
...agricultural policy was introduced that called for a single six-nation market with uniform prices for most farm products. Hailed as the Common Market's finest achievement, the policy has not worked as well in practice as it did on paper. French devaluation and German revaluation shook the price structure. Instead of eliminating marginal farmers, the Six have kept them in business through a tangled network of supports and tariffs...
...militants continued to provoke the police, it became clear that the marshals had done all they could. A leader from the Mobe marshals conferred with the captain of the police. They looked out on the crowd. The Mobe marshal sadly shook his head...