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Focuses on political conditions in the U.S. during the 1970's. Incidents highlighting the shortcomings in leadership qualities of U.S. President Richard Nixon; Political significance of the Trade Reform Act of 1973; Others.

The article focuses on the growth of the pulp and paper company Riegel Paper Corp. under the leadership of president Frederick S. Leinbach. Topics discussed include the expected increase in sales in 1965, overexpansion of the company which led to the rise and fall of profits and investment on a mammoth paper machine in the North Carolina mill. Also included are the insights of Leinbach on his ability to lift earnings over the troubled period.

The article offers information on Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships (EEF) program which brings up-and-coming foreigners to tour U.S. It notes that the Eisenhower fellowships are given to men of proven professional talent who show real leadership in economic or social fields of greatest importance to their countries. It also mentions the efforts of Thomas B. McCabe of Scott Paper Co., who serve as chairman of the EEF, in guiding the fellowship program throughout its first 16 years.

Presents information on the lack of leadership qualities in scientists in the U.S. Reference of an incident that occurred at the international conference of agricultural economists at Cornell university, New York; Paper read by an English delegate, with Oxford behind him, which contained no figures and no practical details; View of the delegate that agricultural economists have not devoted to questions of policy the same keen and critical attention which they have devoted to questions of fact and theory; Claim that the scientific specialists by and large, do not know literature, philosophy, painting, music or poetry; Lack of English writing skills of the scientists; Lack of knowledge of the related sciences;.

This article presents information on the position of trade relations director, an increasingly important post for management. It explains that trade relations director are primarily tasked to handle and address problems that arise from the interaction of their company with other companies and business concerns. Selling to other companies have both dangers and opportunities and industrial companies can guard against these dangers through trade relations director. Companies which created this post include St. Regis Paper Co. and Johns-Manville Corp.

The article discusses U.S. legislators. Newsboys yelling "All the news about legislator Al Smith" and selling papers with no news of Al Smith; a hotel lobby where huge Al Smith posters grin at huger "Right with Reed" Signs; on the floor a thousand sweating men and women, panting, laughing, swearing, hunting for people they cannot find, waiting for the six little elevators that never have room; up and down seventeen flights of stairs an endless, plodding procession of folks who have given up hope of the elevators. On the mezzanine, Al Smith headquarters, Jim Reed headquarters, Texas George, Everybody's headquarters, all armed with gladhand welcoming committees, campaign literature, candidates' buttons, jammed with weary mobs wandering about wondering what to do next.

The article reports on the success of CIT Financial Corp. in the U.S. automobile financing industry. Despite of the steep competition among the huge businesses such as banks and carmakers in automobile industry, CIT had managed to turn its assets to become more profitable in the areas of personal loans, equipment leasing, and mobile home financing. Moreover, CIT became U.S.'s most grandly diversified bank holding company after it bought an ownership of the National Bank of North America.

The article proposes a method of conducting a business policy audit that will help executives determine the nature of a business problem and implement a course of action to solve the problem. The article presents an outline of the process steps and details the actions within the process, including defining the situation, considering the courses if action, adopting and inaugurating a plan, and devising a system of control. The author acknowledges that problems don't happen one at a time, and that this method requires constant readjustment when new factors come into play. The author places an emphasis on the time zoning aspects of the method, as well as the sequence, timing, balance, and convergence and divergence of forces on the process.

Less spectacular than the struggle in automobiles or steel but almost equally important to labor's future is the life-and-death battle between the American Federation of Labor and the Congress of Industrial Organizations now raging in the Pacific Northwest. Seattle and other Pacific Coast cities seem to be a testing ground for the most vicious attacks yet made by the federation leadership upon progressive unionism and the Congress of Industrial Organizations. Pushed out in front by William Green and American Federation of Labor the executive council is Dave Beck, regional vice-president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters. Beck is an ambitious, rotund little man with an unusual talent for employing strong-arm methods with telling effect. He has built up an empire of about 10,000 teamsters in the region around Seattle alone, where his power is most concentrated.

Focuses on the American Youth Congress' Citizenship Institute, held in Washington. Report that including its participants members of student, peace, civic, labor, farmer and fraternal organizations as well as the youth representatives of the Democratic, Socialist and Communist Parties, the Institute seemed at first sight a triumph of unity and militant action; Report that it did not achieve either of its two main purposes--effective publicity for the needs of youth, and the exchange of ideas and experience among young people from different parts of the country; Statement of the Youth Congress leaders that it is a glorified discussion group composed of any young people who cared to attend; Report that while the constitutional status of the Citizenship Institute in relation to the Youth Congress allowed the leadership to squelch controversial resolutions, it at the same time resulted in a lopsidedness in the political composition of the Institute which played into the hands of the Red-baiters; View that it was more a mass rally than a conference.

The article focuses on the issue on Fidel Castro's leadership in Cuba. It highlights the Cuban tractor deal, which represents a monumental propaganda setback for Castro, that was hotly debated in the U.S. It cites the statement of Argentine President Arturo Frondizi at a press conference about Castro's move to trade Cubans for tractors. It outlines the move of the publishers of Uruguay's biggest papers in Montevideo as well as the people in Brazil, Japan and Russia concerning the issue in Cuba.

The article discusses World War II casualties. Among the German troops in Tunisia was the 334th infantry division. On April 18, 1943, when the final struggle had begun but had not yet reached its climax, a military order was issued to the officers which may be considered a historical document. The text, with other papers from divisional headquarters, fell into the hands of the English. It is of interest for the light it throws on German collapse. The picture of demoralization that emerges from this order explains much that happened later. When the central authorities at Berlin learned of such proceedings in Tunisia, they must have been seized by panic for three days after the order was issued they acted with what may be in truth described as "extreme brutality," though perhaps the brutality was not actually as great as it seems.

The light that exists today in darkest Germany is to be found underground. There is opposition to Hitlerism, its terror, its aims, its Weltanschauung, opposition that is almost suicidal in its heroism and notable for the ingenuity of its organization and its activity. At present it does not rock the strength or vicious leadership of the Nazi structure; but it is direct; it is on the spot; although small, it is growing and although confused, it is achieving clarity. An estimate of this opposition, a sane survey of its forces, trends, errors, possibilities, is a necessity for all who fed that fascism is a world menace.

The article reports on the need for U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower to depend on several committee chairmen to get his legislative programs through the next session of the U.S. Congress in December 1953. It says that Eisenhower learned that having the leadership of the Senate and House was not enough because key committee chairmen such as Robert A. Taft (R-N.Y.) could still block proposals from reaching the House of Representatives. According to the author, Eisenhower is determined to exert more control over his legislative program.

The first week of the annual Convention of the American Federation of Labor in Atlantic City would seem to have demonstrated once more the backwardness of American organized labor and the inadequacy of American labor leadership as exemplified by the so-called "Gompers machine." This backwardness and inadequacy, obvious enough and disastrous enough in the piping times of peace, stand out with startling clearness against the world's present social unrest and are well-nigh fatal to the chances of an intelligent American movement toward reconstruction.

The article discusses the bid of John L. Lewis for the leadership of American labor under the American Federation of Labor (AFL). It indicates that there is no single formula the Lewis-led AFL can use to decimate Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO) as it points to District 50 as a useful recruiting mechanism. It describes Lewis as a colorful and fighting leader who returns to AFL with his reputation enhanced. It notes that Lewis is a valuable asset in AFL's war against the CIO whose District 50 can be a perfect weapon for cutting down its rival.

The article focuses on the polls of college editors. In the poll, Richard Nixon came in for a good deal of abuse from Stevenson supporters, as did the President's capacity for leadership. The world situation was used heavily as an argument by both sides. Lisenbower supporters maintained that their candidate's experience and prestige abroad made him essential at this time. Many Stevenson backers condemned Dulles' administration of foreign affairs. The majority of the editors reported that their papers dealt with national affairs to some extent, or encouraged student interest in politics in other ways.

The article discusses U.S. senatorial campaigns. Having worked so long and faithfully for others, Statesman William Frank McCombs has been trying to do something really worth while on his own account. Widely varying estimates of his chances of success float into Washington, but all agree. that, whatever the ultimate outcome, he will have made a highly creditable run, and that, if he gets the coveted Senatorship, he will have nobody to thank for it but himself. For he is running, not on the record of the Democratic party as a whole, or of U.S. President Woodrow Wilson as an individual, but on his own record of success four years ago, when the U.S. Presidential race was everybody's till he came into it with his good horse system.

The article focuses on the benefits which teachers receive from reading and gives suggestions for choosing books and periodicals. The demands upon them are heavy. Never has there been a time when teachers have had so much responsibility. The way they handled rationing problems is but an index of their growing responsibility in the community. One asks where the time can be found for a planned program of reading if one does all the things expected of a teacher today. The first point that comes to mind is reading for relaxation. Reading of humor, fiction, poetry, or any form that is restful to the individual is important. Reading about current life is very important to one who would be a helpful member in the community. The daily paper, supplementing the radio, with a weekly review of the news seems indispensable to a competent, active member of a community. Reading for information on a subject is essential for intelligent action relative to that subject. Reading to further one's own growth is vital to leadership. Unless one is himself growing he cannot stimulate growth in others.

The article focuses on how Jackson College, a state college in Mississippi, go about preparing teachers to serve in the small rural schools and the larger and very recently established consolidated schools. The author remarks that, teachers in Jackson College are concerned primarily with the stark realities of teaching in Mississippi, that is, they wanted help on ways of getting school buildings improved; of persuading the school authorities to increase the financial support of the school; of building good relations between whites and Blacks; and of relieving the distress of tenant farmers who were no longer needed as the community changed from cotton growing to cattle raising. According to the author, the teachers indulge in cheering up and encouraging the students from their respective towns. The State Department experts on buildings, credentials, curriculum and other fields come out and talk sympathetically and simply with the teachers on the problems that troubled the group, in an effort to reduce the distance between members of the State Department of Education and teachers of small schools.

The efficiency of executive management is probably the most important single factor influencing the productivity of the work group. In spite of this, very little is known about the effectiveness of executives. While managers confidently discuss the characteristics of the successful managers, and while many executives boast of their prowess in selecting good leaders on the basis of a brief interview, most modern social psychologists have accepted the fact that research has failed to provide a description of the effective leader in terms of personality traits. A rather different approach suggests that the ways in which effective managers work should be explored. The leaders of effective groups have been found to maintain greater "psychological distance" between themselves and other people than do leaders of fewer effectives groups. This paper considers the method of measuring psychological distance, the factors that affect the development, of psychological distance and the limitations to this approach at the individual and group level.

The article presents information on the book "The Roosevelt Leadership, 19331945," by E.E. Robinson. It is an odd book. It consists, in the main, of a somewhat routine and superficial history of the Roosevelt administration, Combined with this history are some astute observations on Roosevelt as a personality and as a leader and a series of general reflections on the significance of the New Deal-reflections apparently deriving from a dimly-focussed theory of the paper relationship between the people and the state in a democracy.

The article reports on management troubles at U.S. electronics firm Raytheon Co. Richard E. Krafve resigned from his post as company president due to a difference in management philosophy. Raytheon has lost another top operating man at a very difficult time in the company's affairs, says the article.

Offers a look on the opposition of the press against the leadership of Mao Tse-tung in China. Suspicion of the associates of Mao Tse-tung in Peking with regard to the support of Mao Tse-tung; Accusation of the press against the leadership of Mao Tse-tung; Alleged efforts of Teng To, managing director of the "People's Daily" newspaper to make Mao Tse-tung step down from his post; Claim of the "Army Daily" newspaper that there is no difference between Teng To and the Khrushchev revisionists which carries the implication that the opposition group might have pressed for the ending of the quarrel with Russia and for the restoration of alliance; Publishing of plays and articles between 1959 and 1962 by three playwrights containing veiled criticism of the party leadership of Mao Tse-tung.

Focuses on impatience and the satisfaction which labor people themselves feel about union educational publications today. Requirement for the material leadership and sub-leadership to study, and material for mass education and mass distribution; Information about the impact on thinking about the lives of workers and the effect of war conditions on their bread and butter; Attention to the pamphlet called "The UAW-CIO Postwar Plan."

The article offers information on Americans with leadership qualities. Robert Abboud, deputy chairman of the First Chicago Corp., is a monetary and economic conservative who considers himself a liberal in social matters. Senator James Abourezk, chairman of the Indian Affairs Subcommittee of the Senate, is a forceful spokesman for the Arab cause in the conflict over a Palestinian state. Lamar Alexander, Chairman of the Tennessee Council on Crime and Delinquency, has made a point of announcing that he will disclose every single contribution he gets although he is not required to and although it will be a big, burdensome task.

The corporate model, as a global, comprehensive entity, has too often either crashed on take-off or become a Frankenstein monster that is both incredibly expensive to create and impossible to use. This has proved true whether one tried to construct it from the basic data of the corporation--"from the bottom up"--or from the principles on which the executive suite thinks it runs the company--"from the top down." But the corporate model as a tool of limited scope dedicated to a specific function for a given manager or group of managers is proving to be the star-child of management science in the corporation. Here two noted authors in the field put the three kinds of models in perspective, explaining how and why two have failed and how and why one is succeeding. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents matters related to U.S. politics. There is still a bare possibility that the Republican Party will take control of the United States Senate. Democratic Senate control means that bankrupt Southern leadership prevails. It means that liberal Democrats must protest or to held responsible for things they abhor. It seems to this column that it is now or never for the liberals to break with the Dixie Old Guard. The Southern minority can never name a Presidential election, but it can by co-operating with conservative Republicans for three years and 10 months to tear down the Republican party legend.

Pierre Laval himself would be back in French politics instead of in his grave if only he had remembered that Spain's Christian general wouldn't hesitate to betray his own mother for a price. Just the other day Pierre-Etienne Flandin, making a triumphal reappearance at a dinner of the Alliance Democratique, not only put in a claim for leadership in French politics but impudently, savagely ripped into the Fourth Republic. The main speaker of the evening was Louis Rougier, who spent some time in America during the war working against the Free French and only recently returned to Paris after a sojourn in Switzerland, where he went in the interests of his political health. Like Flandin, Rougier believes in the old French army slogan-conveniently forgotten when the Nazis rolled in- that the best defense is an offensive.

The article presents the Press as the daily gossip, rumor and scandal that dominates people and that anyone in business life can afford to ignore or resist. It refers to the Press agent as one of the few people who knows what Press is and uses the Press instead of just accept it. It indicates that the news creates Leaders and a Leader must therefore concern himself with the news and control it as far as he can. It advises those who want to be a Leader to find out how to make news.

A letter to the editor is presented in response to the magazine's "2-Line Editorials" feature and the "Investment Pointers" article by Joseph D. Goodman.

The article presents a guide for a new executive for his first few weeks in an administrative position in 1945. The author considers this period the most critical phase of the administrative job and the executive must make full use of his opportunities. The guidelines include taking time to see everybody, listening carefully to every proposal and making a catalogue of and remembering new friends made. Cataloging new friends is an important technique even beyond the first few weeks on the job.

The collapse of the valuation and, holding-company rackets and the emergence of the small consumer as the arbiter of power policy are the high points in the current utility situation. Transportation rates are less. In this atmosphere of change, planning offers great possibilities for a public conscious of its power and responding to competent leadership. Governor Franklin Delano Roosevelt has given constant testimony to his realization of the importance of the power issue as it affects the social and economic well-being of the people and has moved effectively to clean up abuses and initiated investigation into State regulation by a legislative commission.

Analyzes the removal of Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchev as leader of the Soviet Union. Effect of his domestic procedures on the stability of his government; Economic impact of his Stalinist style of government; Significance of Khrushchev's dismissal; Historical contribution of his leadership.

The thin, reluctant majority by which Clement R. Attlee and his "shadow cabinet" ousted Aneurin Bevan from the Parliamentary Labor group may, in effect, be the vote that ousts Attlee from the leadership of the Labor Party itself. Without going into the validity of the charge of which Bevan was found guilty, disloyalty to Attlee as party leader, his exclusion has been a moral defeat for Attlee, and one that cannot be expunged by the further step of expelling Bevan from the party. For what appears certain is that the rank and file of British Labor is both puzzled and shocked by the action of its leadership.

The article presents information on the work of a research team in producing new and latest technical developments related to radar, atomic energy, and propulsion. It discusses the responsibilities and significance of team director in guiding other team members to work together on a single project. It mentions the approach of a research team working at Melpar Inc. in Alexandria, Virginia in response to the work profile of chemist, instrument specialist, and mechanical engineer.

The article focuses on the leadership of 84-year-old executive Frederic C. Dumaine as chairman and president of the New York, New Haven and Hartford, Connecticut Railroad system. It mentions the dismissal-resignation program of Dumaine, which resulted to the mass firing of major executives in the history of American railroading. In particular, it says that Dumaine has dismissed two vice-presidents, two assistant vice-presidents, an assistant general manager, and the road's treasurer.

The article focuses on the revival of Olivetti Corp., an office machine manufacturer in Italy which had large debts after the death of Adriano Olivetti. It says that two principal causes of the company's rebirth was due to fresh financing from government banks and private interests and the leadership of World War II veteran Aurelio Peccei. It adds that Peccei, who viewed the company not just as an office machine producer, would like to increase their collaboration between the U.S. and Europe.

Presents an insight into the political situation in the United States. Overview of the political activities taken by the Independent Voters of Illinois; View that the outcome of 1946 congressional elections will be determined by the extent to which the Democratic Party leadership, the labor movement and independent progressive groups can agree on a program of positive action; Suggestion to encourage new leadership in Missouri; Acknowledgement that Utah has become a really progressive state through political action; Comment that organized labor is the most important political force in California; Description of the situation of the Negroes in Oregon; Deterioration of the Non-Partisan League in North Dakota.

Every year is a presidential year in American higher education. Statisticians have estimated that the average tenure of office for the college or university president in the U.S. is four years. The time has certainly come when one must assert the predominance of some values over others. One rule should be deeply engraved on the collective conscience of the campus: Whatever else he is, the person chosen to head a college or university should be an educational leader and whatever his other cares may be, he should continue as long as he remains in office to give top priority to the duties of educational leadership.

As the year 1957 lurches toward its mid-point, Hollywood finds itself celebrating the 10th anniversary of a blacklist which began in 1947 when a producers' delegation composed of Dore Schary, Walter Wanger and Eddie Mannix appeared before the Screen Writers' Guild to plead for acquiescence in the blacklisting of the Hollywood Ten. Schary, who is probably the most civilized and certainly the most literate man ever to achieve executive leadership of a major motion picture producing company, acted as reluctant spokesman for the producers.

Focuses on the change in foreign policy of the Soviet Union and other Communist countries after the regime of Joseph Stalin, former Russian leader. Dilution of Stalinism into somewhat less violent way in various Communist regimes; Dependence of other countries on Russians for their policies; Views that change in political situations of the Soviet Union feared other countries regarding their social and political systems due to their dependence on Moscow; Alteration in policy of Hungary to allow peasants to leave the collective farms after death of Stalin; Attacks on Stalin and his policies in another Communist country Poland; Attempts of these countries to find replacement of the Soviet leadership for power; Effect of German fear and common bond of industrialization among these countries on keeping the Soviet bloc together.

The article discusses the pre-election conditions in the U.S. It focuses on the high prospects of Democratic Party in Pennsylvania. The popularity of Democrats is because the Grand Old Party is outdoing itself. Moreover, foreign relations, atomic controls and a peace-time economy have been blandly ignored so that justice might be done to the more pressing issues of godliness and the threat of a Soviet attack on Pennsylvania. However, the state is traditionally one of the most Republican in the country and in the absence of clearly defined and rousing issues, not to mention the absence of leadership on the Democratic side it threatens to slump back into the torpid condition of private politics.

The article features U.S. President Richard Milhous Nixon and his great achievements during his presidency, particularly in 1971. It says that Nixon's determination in making a difference helps the country reach its economic stability and strengthened international affairs. It mentions several factors that marked Nixon's leadership and proved worthy to be called the Man of the Year, including his dialogue with China to withdraw their combat troops in war, fixation of the economic control of the government, and devaluation of dollar in monetary policy through the world market. Moreover, another goal of the president is to achieve reconciliation including the rapprochement with China, the U.S.-Soviet Union relations, and the war against Vietnam.

The article informs of U.S. President Richard Nixon's assertion of his leadership in running the government by making organizational changes and other personnel shifts at the White House. It states how Nixon appointed cabinet officer George Schultz as the head of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB). It offers information on personnel changes such as the appointment of Caspar Weinberger as Schultz's deputy, and discusses Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan's plan of leaving the administration.

The article offers information on the characteristics of Ethel Kennedy, wife of late Senator Robert F. Kennedy in the U.S. It states that Ethel Kennedy has been regarded by the Americans as the most admired woman. It notes that Ethel has been obsessed with athletics, where she still plays tennis in her six months of pregnancy. Moreover, her top priority is all memorial projects, where she works diligently on a nationwide series of fund-raising dinners.

One hundred years from his birth and some fifty years from his death, writer Henry David Thoreau has come into his own, perhaps more than his own. Obscure and contentedly "unsuccessful" while his friend was the anointed leader of a spiritual, social, and literary movement, he has since his death steadily advanced in popular and critical favor, until now he stands almost side by side with the shining leader himself. During his lifetime the author of two books, he has now to his credit no less than twenty volumes. The first edition of his book "A Week on the Concord and Merrimac Rivers," a copy of which recently sold at about one hundred dollars at auction, was so dismal a failure that the publisher returned the greater part of the edition, and the author found the growth of his library very suddenly accelerated.

The article profiles Andrew Wells Robertson, chairman of the American industrial firm Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Co. It provides an overview of his career, his management style, and his success in becoming one of the most prominent business leaders in the U.S. When asked about the secret of finding joy in one's job, he cites the willingness to accept the breaks of life and to always have a sense of humility.

The article examines why the U.S. has obtained economic prosperity as of February 15, 1929. Topics discussed include the impact of a change of leadership after the world war, the role of technology in spreading news and forging relationships, and the development of the purchasing power of the people. Also mentioned are the six developments in the labor-saving process which include the development of trusts, the advent of the automobile, and credit expansion.