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Despite all the crosscurrents presently pulling at U.S. business. Fred Donner looks ahead without fundamental apprehension and with a profound faith in the ability of the G.M. system to cope. It is clearly almost inconceivable to him that General Motors will not go on indefinitely getting a little bigger and a little better than any other manufacturing enterprise in the world. "If I can leave General Motors well staffed with good men in the top jobs and good men coming up under them, and with a cohesion in our forward planning so that the bits and pieces fall into their logical places," says Donner, "then I will feel I have done my job here."
*Part of the estate of Detroiter Louis Mendelssohn, who was treasurer of Fisher Body Co. before it was acquired by G.M.
* Which last week made its first public earnings report: a solid $18 million on 1961 sales of $1.3 billion.