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There is another potential winner. For Fred Sullivan, 63, the red-haired and compulsively energetic chairman of Walter Kidde, the sale of U.S. Lines completes an eight-year saga of frustration and expensive litigation. Sullivan, a Litton Industries alumnus who ran the conglomerate with Founders Tex Thornton and Roy Ash, has built Kidde from a sleepy outfit into a diversified firm (cranes, safety equipment, sporting goods, etc.) with 1977 sales of $1.5 billion and profits of $56.7 million. But the acquisition of U.S. Lines in 1969 for $104 million in cash and stock was, Sullivan admits, a grave mistake...
...European of comparable genius-considered his life in quite this way. Blake, who never thought he was a dreamer, meant everything he painted to have the instructive force of revelation. Each drawing and poem-whether small and limpid, like the Songs of Innocence or his woodcut illustrations to Thornton's Virgil, or epically obscure, like the cantos of The Four Zoas or the grand designs of Jerusalem-was imagined as part of a metaphysical system, a means of explaining the history and nature of the world in terms of the fall and redemption...
...Thornton F. Bradshaw '40, president of the Atlantic Richfield Company and a member of the Kennedy School's visiting committee, said yesterday, "Whether the growth in government pleases us or dismays us, there is little reason to believe that the trend is going to be reversed. Big government, for good or for ill, probably is with us to stay...
...just possible that out of this debate will come a new partnership between Government and business, closer than Carter himself has proposed. An articulate advocate of such an approach is Thornton Bradshaw, the thoughtful president of Atlantic Richfield. Despite his belief in capitalism, Bradshaw contends that the U.S. does not enjoy a totally free market in which competing and countervailing forces work, as Adam Smith would have it, for the ultimate benefit of the consumer. Instead, the U.S. already has developed an only partially free market characterized by a unique blend of private and Government forces...