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...major British industry. Laborites hooted at the Conservatives' assurances that Chrysler would not be allowed to increase its Rootes holdings substantially without government sanction. Last week, in a rather full circle, the Labor government found itself bestowing its blessing on a Chrysler takeover. Minister of Technology Anthony Wedgwood Benn announced approval of additional purchases of Rootes shares that will give Chrysler more than a two-thirds interest in Britain's sputtering, fourth-largest automaker...
...Managerial skills are lacking. "Here we have brilliant individuals and almost never brilliant organizations," says Italian Physicist Massimo Bernardini. U.S.-style teamwork between research, production and financial men remains the exception-and Europeans still have a lot to learn about advertising and marketing too. Anthony Wedgwood Benn, Britain's Minister of Technology, lists "seven new deadly sins" afflicting the British economy, among them "industrial amateurism" and "status hunting." Habitually, corporations pick top managers and directors not for ambition, skill or diligence but for their social qualifications. This sin of amateurism is certainly not confined to Britain...
...giving between husband and wife, that is virtually an index of the success of a marriage. Only in the closest of unions would a husband succeed in buying the right kind of antique Wedgwood vase; and if he knows the correct size for a half-slip, he almost knows too much. On the other hand, it takes more than love-profound intuition and knowledge of character-for a wife to choose the right necktie for her husband. In marital giving, moveover, there is a subtle language: the pingpong table as a gentle hint to the husband who does not spend...
Soft on Anarchy? In Parliament, Labor M.P. Hugh Jenkins demanded action from Postmaster General Anthony Wedgwood Benn, warning that "piracy is an aspect of anarchy, and when the government condones that, as it has in effect been condoning it for the last few years, gangsters soon take over." Wedgwood Benn agreed with relief. He announced that legislation was finally being drafted to outlaw the pirates, probably by making it legal to prosecute advertisers who use them, or newspapers and magazines that print their schedules. Notably absent from his statement was any indication that the socialist government planned the simplest tactic...
...potter of uncommon conscience, Wedgwood supported both the French and American Revolutions, though he well knew that they would hurt his business. An ardent antislaver, Wedgwood sent Ben Franklin his historic medallion showing a chained Negro pleading, "Am I not a man and a brother?" And he became Evolutionist Charles Darwin's grandfather. At Josiah Wedgwood's burial place in the Stoke-on-Trent church, his epitaph reads: he "converted a rude and inconsiderable manufactory into an elegant art and an important part of national commerce." More than that, he annealed common clay with an uncommon love...