Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...panel truck and an automobile collided at Memorial Drive and Western Avenue, a block east of the married students' dorms, at 3 p.m. The impact of the collision flipped the Oldsmobile through a green iron fence and into ten feet of the Charles...
...they sold out to seemed likely to stage an even bigger drama of his own. At 39, Vienna-born Charles G. Bluhdorn is already a millionaire (TIME cover, Dec. 3), has swiftly built his Gulf & Western Industries into a $300 million collection of auto-parts companies. Last week G. & W. moved to add another by a merger with Universal American, which does a $150 million business in tools, auto parts and machinery. Bluhdorn makes no secret of his urge to make Gulf & Western even bigger. As he handed Siegel and Martin a certified check for their $11.8 million, he observed...
Lungi & Computer. The younger Indians are underpinning their companies with Western techniques as well as partners. Indian family companies always believed in nepotism, found jobs for every relative around. Today's executives bypass their in-laws for professional managers. Keshub Mahindra is proud of the fact that only five of 12,000 employees are related to him; Mahindra has linked his plants with Telex communications, keeps track of production with PERT (for performance evaluation and review technique), which was originally devised in the U.S. to coordinate production of the Polaris weapons system. Charat Ram took the lead in founding...
Since 1946, when the International Air Transport Association was set up by the Western world's major airlines, the organization has been headed by Britain's Sir William ("Dick") Hildred, now 72. Under Hildred, IATA has set standards for everything from meals to airplane-seat sizes. From his headquarters in Montreal, Hildred has long courted controversy, and both friend and enemy agreed that above all he was a fare...
This wild West spoof is stacked with enough sagebrush clichés to make it high Campfire. Runty Dingus Magee, who goes around building a reputation as a desperado by taking credit for other people's crimes, is sometimes a delightful composite of all western bad men; at other times, he is merely a hapless, scheming little schnook. As a result, parts of the book are rollickingly funny parody, while other parts are slapstuck...