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...thing to wear a button that says WE TRY HARDER; it's another to prove it. When Board Chairman Robert C. Townsend of Avis Rent-A-Car turned up at his office in Garden City, N.Y., one day wearing his company blazer-the kind worn by Avis folks who deal with the public-a bunch of his subordinates started trying harder. They began wearing their own Avis blazers, red or blue, to the office. Soon supervisory personnel in Avis stations all over the world were wearing them. Last week a group of 16 of them posed happily for their...
Swimmer Dave Abramson '65 is a classic example of the falling athlete. He set NCAA freshman records in both the 220 and 440 yard freestyles and defeated Yale's Ed Townsend and Dave Lyons both on the same day Eventually Abramson became the team's captain, but he never reached the promise of his freshman year...
...March Point on Washington's Fidalgo Island, where three generations of the March family let their sheep out to graze on bucolic farm land, there are now Shell and Texaco refineries and there will soon be a $15 million Lone Star Cement plant. Near by, at sleepy Port Townsend, Crown Zellerbach has built a pulp mill...
...Chrysler reported that sales, at $1.441 billion, and profits, at $62.5 million, both rose to alltime highs during the first quarter. Lynn A. Townsend, 46, who took over the presidency of Chrysler in 1961, when the company was troubled by sagging profits and conflicts of interest among its officers, was now named chief executive officer as well, making him the obvious heir to the throne of Chairman George H. Love, 65, who plans to retire at year's end. Unlike other shareholders' meetings, which were plagued by professional hecklers, Chrysler's was quiet. About the only nuisance...
SWANS ON AN AUTUMN RIVER, by Sylvia Townsend Warner. One of Britain's master short-storytellers shows that she has lost neither her deft cruelty nor her wise compassion in picturing human fallibility...