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Price Instability. The Senate subcommittee bore down hard on another top G.E. executive-Vice President Arthur Vinson, a member on the inner-circle Executive Office who until last year was in charge of nine G.E. apparatus divisions and, as such, was George Burens' direct superior. All of the 19 price-fixing conspiracies in which G.E. was involved were in his divisions...
Burens testified that Vinson visited him in his office at the Philadelphia plant in 1958. Burens was at odds with other G.E. apparatus division chiefs, who complained that his refusal to fix prices with competitors weakened the price structure in the electrical apparatus market. According to Burens, Vinson told him, "We cannot go on with this price instability. You are affecting other divisions in the group." Burens says that he replied that he had "tried [price fixing] and found it did not work." Burens says that Vinson replied: "I have assurance this time that it will work. I have talked...
...Maribel Vinson Owen started her two daughters skating when they were two years old. Mrs. Owen had been nine times United States figure skating champion, and she hoped to train her daughters to succeed...
...Colorado Springs, Boston's pert Laurence Owen, 16, daughter of nine-time Champion Maribel Vinson Owen, twirled to victory at the national figure-skating championships to replace the retired Carol Heiss as the queen...
...haven't got any illusions." Milwaukee-born, Minow was named the outstanding graduate of Northwestern University's law school in 1950, went to work as an administrative assistant to Illinois Governor Adlai Stevenson after a spell as clerk to the late Supreme Court Chief Justice Fred Vinson. An aggressively loyal Stevensonian, Minow campaigned for the Governor (now his fellow partner in the law firm of Stevenson, Rifkind & Wirtz) in both 1952 and 1956, did his best to try to persuade Adlai not to fight Kennedy for the 1960 presidential nomination...