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...Vincent de Roulet, a corporate executive and Ambassador to Jamaica since October...
...happens, all of these good people are more or less right. But what are they talking about? The Harry Emerson Fosdick-Norman Vincent Peale Reader"! A new rendering of the Kama Sutra with footnotes by Mick Jagger? The Bhagavad-Gita as interpreted by the Rev. Billy Graham? Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Hereafter But Were Afraid to Ask? Not so. They are talking about an illustrated parable concerning a seagull who learns aerobatics. They are talking about a volume so small that Winnie the Pooh could carry it in his hip pocket, and so unfleshly that...
That drastic proposal, which would cause one of the biggest business divestitures in U.S. history, seemed to leave nearly everyone magnificently unmoved. A total breakup of the company, scoffed IBM Chairman T. Vincent Learson, "will never happen." IBM's lawyers accused the Justice Department of attempting to complicate and stall the case further by expanding its complaint beyond the company's domestic operations to include its fast-expanding international business as well. Even investors, after an initially skittish reaction that sent the company's stock tumbling 14 points, rallied behind Wall Street's perennial darling...
...long been common to reward big contributors with ambassadorships, despite their lack of diplomatic experience. Large donors who made it under Nixon include Kingdon Gould Jr., who gave $22,000 and became ambassador to Luxembourg; Guilford Dudley Jr., $51,000, Denmark; John P. Humes, $43,000, Austria; Vincent De-Roulet, $44,500, Jamaica. A big giver under President Eisenhower, Maxwell H. Gluck, was embarrassed at confirmation hearings for his ambassadorship to Ceylon when he could not name that nation's Prime Minister...
...Vincent Learson, chairman and chief executive of the corporation for only 15 months, chose his 60th birthday to announce that he will retire next Jan. 1. He will be replaced by Frank T. Gary, 51, now IBM's president. Learson's departure, in fact, is little more than a routine management turnover. Back in 1966, when he became president, he expressed his intention of stepping down at 60. Learson will leave the corporation in brimming health; IBM's first-half net income rose 22%, to a record $618 million, on record revenues of $4.7 billion...