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...from high school). The corporation bearing his name has grown fourfold in ten years; in 1965 it grossed $110 million-a 27% rise over 1964. The charitable foundation he established without fuss or ballyhoo has generously endowed educational and cultural activities in Southern California. Yet for all his laurels, Walt Disney at 64 is still the busiest man in Hollywood...
...sure, Walt stopped drawing his own cartoons in 1928, and has not piped the voice of Mickey Mouse on a sound track in years. He has even cut his workday from 14 hours to ten. But his calendar for last week included 30 conferences at his production lot in Burbank or at his research-and-development facility in Glendale, a back-to-backbreaking schedule with time out only to sip Sanka poured from his silver carafe...
King Bee. The official corporate leader of all this activity is Walt's brother Roy, 72, who is president and board chairman of Disney Productions. Walt calls himself the executive producer, "the little bee who goes from one area to another, gathering pollen and sort of stimulating everybody." Obviously he is the head bee. One ex-Disney executive notes that, for all its 3,300 employees, the corporation is still a one-man show. "Everything in that plant goes through Walt and with his blessing. The king is king, as far as he's concerned. He okays ideas...
...Cabinet, Johnson named hard-driving Robert E. Kintner, 56, who just three months ago left his $200,000-a-year job as president of the National Broadcasting Co. (after a well-muffled company dispute). Less surprisingly but no less provocatively, he named as a special presidential assistant Walt Whitman Rostow, 49, a Kennedy-picked M.I.T. economic history professor who served as a White House aide before but left in 1961 to become a State Department policymaker because he did not get along with McGeorge Bundy...
...spring for Nate Oliver has provided a possible answer to Walt Alston's infield problems. Oliver will open the season at second base, with Jim Lefebvre moving over to third. Tommy Davis should be back in left field, although his ankle remains somewhat suspect...