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...earned $2.4 billion, and workers want some of the benefits of the good times. Says Charles Ryan, 59, a janitor at Detroit's Jefferson Avenue plant who joined the company in 1951: "The workers never got credit for saving Chrysler." Echoes William Bon, president of U.A.W. Local 122 in Cleveland: "We have made a great sacrifice to keep Chrysler afloat, and we don't want to get thrown out of the lifeboat." The company's semiskilled assemblers now make $13.23 an hour, 6 cents an hour less than their colleagues at GM and Ford. Management says it has already agreed...
...stand" (that is, when they don't fall back on the cop-out of "he's not worthy"). But when all is said and done, breaking the long-standing precedent of offering honorary degrees to Presidents on major Commencement dates--Roosevelt 50 years ago (he already had one), Grover Cleveland 100 years ago (he said he was unworthy, interestingly enough), and Andrew Jackson 150 years ago--clearly places Harvard on the long list of those groups in American society which oppose the bulk of the Administration's Just because it's an act of omission doesn't make...
...fire hazard (rather than a contamination threat) and asked EPA to put the site near the top of its list. The agency merely had the drums hauled off to an approved landfill in Emelle, Ala. Problem solved. Similarly, about 700 drums of chemicals had been stored in a Cleveland warehouse used by Chemical Minerals Recovery Co. Another 700 were piled outside the building. None had sprung significant leaks. But EPA gave the site priority and had the drums carried to an EPA-licensed landfill in Geneva, Ohio. Another site cleared...
However, what about the residents of Emelle and Geneva? Have they inherited the old headaches of Greenville and Cleveland? Perhaps not immediately, since the dump at Emelle sits atop hundreds of feet of clay, and the one at Geneva at least has the now mandatory clay liner. But most experts consider any landfill only a temporary solution to the chemical-waste problem. Eventually, all will develop cracks or gradually give way to the corrosive action of the potent chemicals...
While the body makes all its decisions by consensus, Corporation members tend to have informal areas of expertise. Cleveland tax lawyer Hugh Calkins '45, the 17-year Corporation veteran whom Rosovsky replaces, was most heavily involved in developing Harvard's policy of refusing to divest of stock in companies that do business in South Africa. Robert G. Stone Jr. '45, a New York financier and yachtsman, is the Corporation's fundraising whiz. Charles P. Slichter '45, a noted physicis professor at the University of Illinois, is respected for his knowledge of academic matters, while Treasurer Roderick M. MacDougall is involved...