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PHILIP SCHORSH, son of a German tycoon, hippie-radical, deportee from the United States, Harvard Business School student, and cause celebre, was one of the more bizarre luminaries in the Harvard firmament a couple of years back. A doctoral candidate given the boot for not even beginning his thesis, Schorsh struck back by claiming to be writing a thesis on what was wrong with the Harvard Business School...
Watkins had been openly pressing for the top spot for some time, but Eaton had refused to budge. The spare, white-haired tycoon's position was further weakened because of the carload of enemies he has made at the White House. He was a vigorous critic of the Viet Nam War and called President Nixon a "dictator"; for imposing wage-price controls. Eaton is a veteran of boardroom battles during a career of more than half a century, in which he has controlled such major corporations as Republic Steel and Goodyear. He may not be through yet. He still...
...crooked way he rose to wealth: he married it, in Priscilla Wheelan (the Wheelan family was sole owner of American Photograph Corp. and Riggs was handed one of its executive positions). He settled down in the corporate saddle for several lazy years -- now that's hardly your tycoon's rugged individualism. There is as well the other matter of his marriage: the simple, gentle soul his wife remembers walked out of it with a $1,000,000 settlement. And if you still need convincing -- though perhaps this isn't playing fair -- just take a look at the guy. Notice...
Economic Curbs. Gelbard, an aluminum tycoon who immigrated from Poland, is instituting Perón's economic policies, which so far include price controls and cutbacks as well as restrictions on foreign investment. U.S. business interests, with a total $1.3 billion in direct investment, are nervous about the curbs. But the U.S. Government, which opposed Perón's first election bid in 1946, has been treading softly this time. It has even leaked stories indicating its acceptance of him as the best hope for his country's stability...