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Little Rock's Police Chief Eugene Smith [Aug. 24] deserves a better description than "tough cop," and my hat is off to him and the Little Rock city fathers and citizenry who gave him support in fighting the powerful pressures of a rabid tyrant...
...PUBLIC. No previous postwar steel shutdown has been met with such public apathy. But there are warnings that may soon jolt that apathy. Said Chief Economist Beryl W. Sprinkel of Chicago's Harris Trust & Savings Bank: "By Oct. 1, the strike will be a significant depressant on business. If both sides do not reach an accord by then, the Government will have to step in." Last week the Administration repeated that it had no intention of stepping in. The strongest public pressure for a settlement came from 100 steelworkers' wives who, with a bow to the women...
After a quarter century as the highflying boss of Eastern Air Lines, Captain Eddie Rickenbacker this week turned over the controls to a new pilot. In as president and chief executive officer of Eastern, the third-ranking U.S. domestic air carrier (4.4 billion revenue passenger miles in 1958), went Malcolm A. Maclntyre, 51. Under Secretary of the Air Force from May 1957 until he resigned in July. In the shuffle, Rickenbacker, 68, kept the board chairmanship, will also head a new seven-man policymaking committee. Ailing (from a back injury) President Thomas F. Armstrong, 56, will become executive vice president...
...selecting Maclntyre to take over, Eastern's board of directors recognized the impossibility of finding another chief executive in Rickenbacker's self-made mold. Boston-born Malcolm Maclntyre graduated from Yale ('29), went on to Oxford as a Rhodes scholar and to Yale Law School before joining the Manhattan law firm of Sullivan & Cromwell in 1933. He entered the Army Air Corps in 1942, served overseas with the Air Transport Command, left in 1946 as a colonel. After two years of Washington law practice, he joined the Manhattan law firm of Debevoise, Plimpton & McLean...
...Louis C. Lustenberger, 54, moved up from executive vice president to president of W. T. Grant Co.. second biggest U.S. junior department-store chain (after J. C. Penney), succeeding Edward Staley, 55, who became vice chairman and chief executive officer. Pittsburgh-born Louis Lustenberger joined Grant in the standards department in 1929, three years out of Carnegie Institute of Technology. In Depression '32 he moved to Montgomery Ward, rose quickly to general personnel manager and vice president. In 1940 Founder W. T. Grant hired him back as an assistant to the president. Since the war, he and Staley...