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...waterbuck are sold, the auction has raised $1.5 million, well down on last year's $3.3 million, but a sign that conservation efforts are working. Says Gaisford: "As people stock their farms, demand is bound to go down." I decide a straightforward approach to buyers is safest. Rob Le Sueur, owner of Nambiti Game Conservancy, four hours' drive west, is with his manager Mark Hamsmeyer, checking out two white rhino. They are looking for rhino and hippos to stock their new park. "What do you look for in a hippo?" I ask, figuring that I can't go wrong with...
John Helmeke Le Sueur, Minn...
...administrative whiz who came to Polaroid ten years ago from the Nestle Co., Wyman had been widely regarded as the heir apparent. But just before McCune's promotion was announced, Wyman quit to accept the president's job at the Green Giant food company in Le Sueur, Minn. Wyman denied strenuously that he had had a falling out with Land, but he was clearly tired of waiting. The attraction of Green Giant, he explains, "really is a matter of running something myself...
Convenient Deaths. Fortune and a delicate skill in personnel placement did wonders for his position: both his teacher, Vouet, whom he was to replace as dean of Parisian artists, and an early rival, Eustache Le Sueur, conveniently died. Sighed Le Brun: "Death has relieved me of a thorn in the foot." Astutely, he promoted a French Academy in Rome, and with characteristic magnanimity dispatched his chief surviving Paris rival, Charles Errard, to be its rector...
Founded in 1903 by Le Sueur merchants who wanted to stimulate the town's tired economy, the company started with a single product-corn-and did not add peas to its line until 1907. Cautiously, it added asparagus in 1939, waited another 19 years before putting beans on the market. Only recently has Green Giant hopped boldly into new products. "There is just so much market for canned peas and corn in this world," says President Lurton Eugene Felton, 63, "and we were so concentrated, we were vulnerable." So diversified has the company's line become that even...