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...Chief Executive Ling, 44, the Wilson deal was the zenith of a sensational rise that began in an electrical shop in 1946. With $3,000 in capital and a battered pickup truck, Ling contracted to lay wires in buildings springing up in prosperous Dallas. He learned finance, went public, issuing 800,000 shares in his little company-keeping half for himself-at $2.25. Next came his first acquisition: an electronic-vibration-equipment maker, for which he paid $19,000 cash and assumed the company's debts of $66,000. After a series of small takeovers, Ling was ready...
...poorest of Sinclair Lewis' Midwestern novels, written in the late 1920s. Its businessman anti-hero is Lowell Schmaltz, who lives in Zenith, admires George Babbitt, and delivers endless monologues on Calvin Coolidge, cafeterias, motor trips, radio, etc. Coolidge sample: "Maybe he isn't what my daughter would call so 'Ritzy' ... he may not shoot off a lot of fireworks, but you know what he is? He's SAFE...
Howard proves to be executive material, becoming expert at self-effacing chuckles and patterning his sales messages on the speeches of Richard Nixon. He moves on from Fraser-Blau to the folks at Ritter Pfaud, from the Zayre Corp. to the Udylite people, finally reaching zenith with the "management group of Mr. Grunewald's organization, a firm widely respected for its pioneering work in the development of inert ingredients...
...Project's lunar excursion module. ICs are used in the new ground-surveillance radar system at the Atlanta airport and are being designed into most new military and commercial computers. Within the last year, the tiny chips have also begun to find their way into consumer products. Some Zenith hearing aids and RCA television sets now use integrated circuits, and General Electric will soon market an integrated-circuit clock radio...
...century Africa. They show the degradation of U.S. slavery, profile such authentic but little-known Negro leaders as Suffragette Mary Church Terrell and Abolitionist Frederick Douglass. They span the terrors of lynch law and report on today's freedom marchers. Best of the supplements are Doubleday's Zenith Books, written in a sixth-grade vocabulary but with an adult perspective...