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...partners. Indian family companies always believed in nepotism, found jobs for every relative around. Today's executives bypass their in-laws for professional managers. Keshub Mahindra is proud of the fact that only five of 12,000 employees are related to him; Mahindra has linked his plants with Telex communications, keeps track of production with PERT (for performance evaluation and review technique), which was originally devised in the U.S. to coordinate production of the Polaris weapons system. Charat Ram took the lead in founding the All-India Management Association to help develop new talent. Says he: "There...
...Bend had not seen such commotion since Pancho Villa tromped over the border in 1916, and it was hardly prepared for the crush. Extra telephone lines and fast-transmission Telex machines were jammed into ranger headquarters at Panther Junction to handle press copy, and a car stood ready to rush outgoing material to the airstrip 120 miles away. For Lady Bird's five-hour raft journey through the wild gorges of the Rio Grande, rangers had floated box lunches, soft drinks and coffee, and portable toilets to the sand bar where the party was to stop for lunch...
...bartering requires shrewd contacts and lightning communications. The largest, oldest and best-known barterer is Lausanne's Andre & Co., an 88-year-old firm that last year handled transactions worth $1 billion. Brothers Georges and Jean Andre have 5,000 worldwide agents, a fleet of 15 freighters, leased telex lines to North and South America and, reputedly, Switzerland's largest telephone bill. Bartering has particularly profited from increased East-West trade because Comecon nations like to do at least part of their dealing in merchandise. In their latest transaction, the Andre brothers shipped diesel engines to Yugoslavia...
...such questions, no answers were forthcoming, for U.S. public relations officers fell silent after some initial muttering about the plane going astray "in bad weather." Later, it was suggested that the Telex line that was to relay the flight plan was out of order, and the French might have gotten a garbled version. This did not alter the fact that there is a blanket prohibition against foreign air photos of French soil without permission of the government; even when the U.S. wanted photos of the American cemetery at Ste.-Mère-Eglise last year, it had to get approval...
...have leased only one of the six channels; the Associated Press and United Press International are among those who will be using the other five), our new capability out of Saigon adds another facet to a vast communications network that is unique in magazine publishing. Via leased-wire Teletype, Telex, commercial telegraph and cable facilities, this network links the TIME-LIFE News Service's 32 bureaus in the U.S. and abroad, whose staff and special correspondents file an average 3,500,000 words a month into the clattering cable room on the 25th floor of the TIME & LIFE Building...