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Union Power Play. Early in the week McDonald scored on his divide-and-conquer campaign in a friendly contract-signing session with Chairman Edgar Kaiser of California's Kaiser Steel Corp. (2% of steel capacity). Steelman Kaiser (see BUSINESS), refusing to stick with other operators through the injunction procedure, signed a 20-month union contract giving his 7,500 employees a yearly wage-and-fringe-benefit boost worth 11.25? an hour, only a quarter of a cent more than the last industry-wide offer. To the Kaiser company, the terms made special sense because of its special situation, which...
This situation is aggravated by the fact that Social Science 1 has become more and more oriented towards history in the last few years. Professor Myron P. Gilmore, chairman of the History department comments, "I hardly see that Social Sciences 1 has anything of the Social Sciences in it. It's history...
Professor Kenneth B. Murdock, chairman of the Committee, feels that the Redbook was a product of the intellectual climate of the end of the war, and that the educational demands of society have changed so much that it is no longer applicable. Further, he points out, the idea of single courses to be taken by every undergraduate is completely opposed to Harvard's strong elective tradition...
...future is entirely unclear. A great deal will depend on who is selected to replace Murdock, who will retire soon. Unless the new chairman has both Murdock's prestige and his interest in General Education, there is little chance that the program will survive the competition which other experiments will give it over the next five years...
Finally, the Commissioners, seniors acting as Conference leaders, coordinate all the material, and help the chairman--a senior of "high standing"--to organize a final report, which is duly filed in Firestone Library...