Word: tandem
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...consumer products group. Borch, who started with G.E. as a traveling auditor, will take from Cordiner full responsibility for directing manufacturing and marketing by all five G.E. operating groups. More important, the promotion marks him as a prime candidate to move−some day−into the tandem leadership of G.E. with President Gerald J. Phillippe, 52, who now heads all G.E. services, such as engineering and accounting...
Geneen, but in 1959, chafing under Adams' unwillingness to give him the presidency, Geneen jumped to I.T.&T. Upping his price, Adams next brought in. from Ford, lean, genial Richard Krafve (rhymes with taffy), 54, and soon set up a "tandem management" arrangement under which Krafve, as president, and Adams, as chairman, shared control of the company with neither having the final say. Explained Krafve: "If we were that far apart, one of us would just have to go." Last week, finding himself that far apart, Krafve resigned, leaving Adams to reassume the presidency. The reason: a series...
Switch in Portfolios. Even so, the experts are choosing their stocks with considerable care. In recent months, they have favored "defensive" issues that tend to advance in tandem with the population growth and the rising standard of living, e.g., food, cosmetics, tobacco, publishing, insurance, utilities and banks. As of last week, the bloom was off most of these rosy issues because prices have skipped far ahead of earnings forecasts. Now the experts are eying the industries that tend to curve along with the business cycle-oils, industrial machinery, rails, chemicals, paper-and which stand to profit if general business activity...
...naughty, nutty boudoir farce. The lover it celebrates (Jean-Pierre Cassel) is a gay young gigolo whose rich mistress (Micheline Presle) keeps him comfortable but also keeps him busy. Even so, the lover has enough libido left for a chic chick (Jean Seberg), and for several reels the tandem romance rackets merrily along. Neither mistress knows he has the other; he on the other hand is blithely unaware that both attend the same hen parties...
Sensitive Trio. The new guide brings together 78 sensitive business-cycle indicators and divides the bulk of them into three groups: "leaders,"' whose turns generally precede that of the economy as a whole; "laggers," which historically move behind the overall economy; and "coincident indicators." which move roughly in tandem with the general curve. The maze of wriggling charts is too complex for most laymen to cope with, but economists may well be able to use it to call economic shifts with greater accuracy and to alert businessmen to take effective contra-cyclical action. One theoretical case: if economists spotted...