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...gray and wet, adding a touch of gloom to the usual anxiety in the New York air. High atop the American Telephone and Telegraph (AT & T) building, chairman of the board John deButts has a commanding view of the World Trade Centers. The rest of the building, as far as I can tell from the lobby and the hallways, seems to be a cross between a medieval castle and the Pentagon. The lobby is crowded with simple Roman columns, which part to reveal a statue set into the marble wall. It is the figure of a man with...
...next stop is a modern skyscraper across from Rockefeller Center. The 15th floor of the building houses the chairman of the Board of NL Industries, Ray Adam. In contrast to the massive security at the AT&T building, a single receptionist guards a wide hallway leading to the plush, carpeted depths of the office. Once I get inside, Adam immediately arrives to greet me, relaxed and smiling. Where deButts lectures, Adam chats; he calls me by my first name repeatedly, and in spite of myself, I am disarmed...
Adam began working in Washington as the chairman of the Business Roundtable's energy task force after Carter announced his conservation-oriented energy policy. "I found myself swept into an involvement which was intense and time consuming," he says. That involvement included lobbying Congressmen, negotiating with administration officials, and coordinating the efforts of the business community...
...last interview. The gloom in the air has coalesced into fat, grimy raindrops, which do not help my already-dishelved appearance. Happily, Rockefeller Center is warm and dry, and after only half an hour lost in the tunnels. I manage to find the offices of the president and chairman of the board of Union Carbide, William Sneath...
Speakers at the Yard rally will include Michael Ansara, a former member of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Eneritus, Sandra Graham, a Cambridge city counselor, and professors from Boston University and the University of Massachusetts, Perry G. Merhling '81, the committee chairman, said yesterday...