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...much do fringe benefits cost U.S. industry? No one knows exactly. This is the conclusion of Management Consultant Austin Fisher and John F. Chapman, associate editor of the Harvard Business Review, after a survey of 400 "handpicked" companies...
...Austin, Texas, Marion G. Ford, a Negro, applied for admission as an undergraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Texas. Open only to Negro graduate students since 1950, the university first notified Ford that he had been accepted, later sent him a letter: "Prairie View A. & M. College [Negro] will offer all the required courses of study for your freshman year . . . After you have completed your first year's work [at that school], you may apply here for admission ... In view of the above [we] regret to advise you that your acceptance notice is hereby canceled...
Died. Jay Catherwood Hormel, 61, board chairman of George A. Hormel & Co.; of a heart ailment; in Austin, Minn. As a World War I lieutenant in the Quartermaster Corps, Hormel won the plaudits of the brass by showing meat packers how to bone beef before it was shipped overseas (saving 40% in cargo space), came home to make a fortune for his father's meat-packing company and fame of a different sort in World War II by inventing Spam, a canned pork product, which became the ubiquitous item on Allied military menus the world over. In 1931 Iconoclast...
Before Texas Democrats went to the polls one day last week, they witnessed one of the bitterest political campaigns in Texas' history. In the runoff primary for governor, between Governor Allan Shivers and Austin Lawyer Ralph Yarborough, the big issue was clear-cut: Yarborough, representing Democrats who stayed with the national party organization in 1952, charged that Shivers committed political treason by swinging Texas to Dwight Eisenhower...
Among the signers: liberal Democratic Senator Paul Douglas and conservative Republican Senator John Bricker, A.F.L. President George Meany and former U.S. Steel Chairman Irving Olds, ex-President Herbert Hoover, ex-U.N. Delegate Warren Austin, Novelist John Dos Passes, Poet Conrad Aiken. Also among the signers: General George C. Marshall, who, between tours as Army Chief of Staff and Secretary of State, spent a year in China half-persuading the Nationalists to lie down like lambs with the conquest-bent Communists...