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...Almost from its beginnings, Citicorp Center was envisioned as a place to shop and savor and feast at all hours, an In spot in the inner city. To Citicorp Chairman Walter Wriston, it will be "a living, positive part of the neighborhood, 24 hours a day, for decades to come. We would like to think of the Citicorp Center as the cornerstone of a new New York...
...clear shot at the top had the effect of discouraging the kind of compulsive overachievers who were attracted to its rival Citibank. Under the leadership of the aggressive Walter Wriston, Citibank overtook the Chase in 1968 and is now challenging the Bank of America for the No. 1 spot. While Wriston has vigorously recruited executives from far afield to put new zip into banking, Rockefeller has fostered a clubby-his critics say complacent-atmosphere in the Chase's upper echelons...
...Wriston's chief target is Government interference in the economy, which he believes has ruined or distorted every industry it has touched. Says he: "Shortages become a crisis when Government intervenes to frustrate the ability of the free market to function...
...life is a series of accidents," muses Wriston, reflecting on how he got into banking. The son of Henry M. Wriston, former president of Brown University and a State Department adviser, Walter Wriston took a master's degree at Tufts University's Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy and passed the exams to become a State Department officer. But during World War II he was drafted and ended up a Signal Corps officer in the Philippines...
...years later, says Wriston, "my dart hit the board." George Moore, Citibank's great postwar expansionist, picked the young Wriston to direct the important European operation. Wriston was so successful that within three years he was heading the bank's entire foreign operations. From then on, there was little doubt that the brash young Wriston would some day boss the bank...