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...speculation was that Newberg had been caught in unauthorized negotiations with American Motors' President George Romney about a Chrysler-Rambler merger. Romney promptly denied it. Chrysler Stockholder and Chief Gadfly Sol Dann (TIME, May 2) hinted to reporters about shady dealings within the company, fired off a telegram to the Chrysler directors requesting them to "name the certain corporate policies upon which they differed, and specify which of these men was attempting to correct or remove any acts of corruption." Chrysler's reply: "No comment...
Hardly had Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert gaveled the annual meeting to order last week than Detroit Lawyer Sol A. Dann, owner of 5,100 Chrysler shares and a self-styled management "gadfly," started a harangue that lasted better than half of the 2½-hour meeting...
...better himself, the critic decided that he belonged onstage: "Like missionaries who go among the savages and must be prepared to face being eaten, we independent newspapermen and honest politicians should be prepared for the worst." Peru's economy was in such sorry shape that the sol had dropped from 19 to the dollar to 31.5. The simple act of making Beltrán Premier checked the decline. Then Beltrán stopped the currency printing presses that La Prensa had long cartooned as a loathsome, hairy-legged machine. He ended food subsidies, tightened tax collections, dropped surplus bureaucrats...
...Hardened Sol. By the end of 1959, after eight months in office, Beltrán had written an impressive record. He repaid a Peruvian debt of $14.5 million to the International Monetary Fund. Foreign exchange reserves climbed to $11 million. Exports topped imports by nearly $25 million. The sol hardened...
...knows which side is sol, or as a cat Knows which gray spot is mouse, or when, in Boris...