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Three types of altruists have been distinguished by the Center's research. Fortunate Altruists, like Albert Schweitzer and Benjamin Franklin, grow into altruistic creativity peacefully, Catastrophic Altruists, like St. Paul and St. Francis of Assisi, go through painful periods of conversion before assuming their new altruistic personality. The Intermediary type, of which Mahatma Gandhi is an example, includes traits of both previous types...
...Steel's Chairman Benjamin Fairless, it was something more than just another stockholders' meeting. It was the day before his 6sth birthday, and to the 1,050 Big Steel stockholders gathered in Hoboken, N.J.'s Union Club ("The only guaranteed annual audience I ever get"), he made a special announcement. After 42 years in the steel business, and three as boss of the industry's biggest company, the time had come to resign. Said Fairless: "There must always be room at the top of our management team for young men with young ideas and a fresh...
...University will receive a $290,000 grant for research in the scientific field next year, Benjamin Strong, chairman of the Board of Control of the Higgins Trust, announced recently...
...pace ; combined first-quarter earnings of 33 steel companies were almost 70% higher than a year ago. U.S. Steel, by earning $72,652,402 in 1955's first three months, topped the record of $61,379,757 for that period, set in 1917. And, said Board Chairman Benjamin Fairless, earnings and production for the full year should be better than any previous year except 1953. Not to be outdone, Bethlehem Steel announced that its first-quarter earnings of $35,313,262 were also the best it had ever done in that period, declared a dividend of $1.50 a share...
Rhinelander is actually the third person to head the General Education program. At its inception, it was briefly directed by Benjamin Rice, now President of Smith College. David E. Owen, now Chairman of the Department of History; succeeded Rice...