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...whatever formula the inexorable attack on long-neglected urban problems comes, the cost will be staggering. Alcoa Chairman Frederick J. Close last week ventured a price tag of $100 billion to clean U.S. skies and rivers, rebuild cities, unsnarl traffic, educate the young and re-educate the old. Vice Chairman Simon Ramo of TRW Inc. puts the cost ten times higher, or $1 trillion...
...Alcoa official last week, "but this copper thing has given us our biggest boost yet." Some air-conditioning manufacturers, for example, are redesigning condensers and evaporating tubing for aluminum; Detroit's Michigan Utilities Co. has begun converting to aluminum tubing for connections to gas appliances. A good deal of the switching is impelled not by copper shortages but by the rising price of the metal. And however the strike ends, the price seems sure to go only...
...billion. While that decline was a year-long affair, several rival steelmakers-including Bethlehem, Republic and Inland-showed fourth-quarter profit increases as customers started stockpiling in anticipation of a possible steel strike next summer. Other metals companies, among them Kaiser Aluminum and Reynolds Metals, also skidded in 1967; Alcoa managed a 1.2% profit increase, but that reflected receipts from the sale of two of its subsidiaries...
From Home to Office. Working with such blue-chip clients as Alcoa, Dow Chemical, U.S. Steel and U.S. Gypsum, Tishman researchers have devised such cost savers as movable wall panels for faster changes in floor plans, noise-stifling floor-assembly systems, prefabrication techniques for kitchen-bathroom cores used in slum rehabilitation. Having built $630 million worth of structures across the U.S.-everything from a Philadelphia industrial park to Los Angeles' Sheraton Wilshire Motor Inn-the company also has accumulated a salable store of insight into construction intricacies. For a consulting fee equal to 1% of the total cost, says...
...Alcoa appeals for people with imagination, new ideas. A Western Electric ad tells undergraduates; "We replace shiboleths at a terrific pace!" and issues a welcome to young men who will "create a stir... upset an old applecart...