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Dates: during 1960-1969
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B.M.C., which claims that the Japanese cars are poorly trimmed and underpowered, has fought Honda's efforts to establish a dealership network. Says Lester Suffield, B.M.C.'s deputy managing director in charge of sales: "Of course we are getting tough. It has taken us 50 years to build up our sales network, and we don't intend to give one inch on this vital issue." Especially grating is the fact that the little Japanese cars coming into Britain pay a 22% duty, while mini-size cars entering Japan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Threat from the East | 11/3/1967 | See Source »

...manager of concert performers, moved the family to New York. By Hal's fifth birthday, his parents were separated. Mother, who remains a major influence in his life (Geneen's father is now dead), sent him to a succession of boarding schools and summer camps. At Suffield (Conn.) School, the older boys got Springfield rifles for military drill while the younger ones got only wooden ones. "So there I was," he recalls, "the smallest kid in the school, carrying my little wooden rifle with one hand, and trying to keep my puttees up with the other...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Double the Profits, Double the Pride | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...persevered, graduated from Suffield, afterward got a job as a page on Wall Street, where he developed an enthusiasm for finance. At night he studied accounting. At Manhattan's Lybrand Ross Bros. & Montgomery, where he was an accountant for eight years, Geneen became known as a hard-driving young man whose grasp of business, recalls Lybrand Partner Philip Bardes, "went far beyond the balance statement." Geneen next moved through corporate-finance jobs at American Can Co., Bell & Howell and Jones & Laughlin Steel, combing their ledgers, as a colleague of those years later put it, like "a bloodhound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Corporations: Double the Profits, Double the Pride | 9/8/1967 | See Source »

...SUFFIELD...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jan. 31, 1964 | 1/31/1964 | See Source »

Last week independent preparatory schools set up a similar clearing house, called the Secondary Schools Admission Center at Suffield Academy, Suffield, Conn., to put applicants for grades seven and up in touch with schools that still have room in September classes. The service is free to students who take exams of the Secondary School Admission Test Board, costs $1 registration fee for others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Second Chance for College | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

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