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...Eastern Air Lines Flight 902, a Lockheed Tristar jumbo jet, descended toward the same runway. It was caught in the same turbulence, measured at up to 90 m.p.h. Pilot Clifton Nickerson alerted the tower to the "wind shear and turbulence." Struggling, in his term, to "save it," he prudently pulled the huge craft back into the air and off to a safe landing at nearby Newark Airport. Some of his passengers grumbled about the "poor service...
...Jamieson's successor as chair man and chief executive officer will be Exxon's current president, Clifton Garvin, 53, a forceful if taciturn Virginia-born engineer who rose through the corporate ranks via the company's burgeoning chemical operations. The new president: Howard C. Kauffmann, 52, a senior vice president (one of five), who has been running Exxon's operations in Europe and Latin America for most of the past ten years. One Exxon executive, who knows them both, describes them as "cast in the same mold-hard businessmen, not extraverted, used to tough decisions." More...
...little surprised at the incredible amount of good will alumni have shown for Harvard," Clifton said. But he said the poll has also shown the fund may have to "update its methods of communicating" if increases are to be expected...
...survey is going to help us make our plans for next year's drive," Clifton said. "It shows us that we have some rethinking to do. The mailings and other appeals could get a lot better...
...Fund has brought in around $4 million for the Faculty in each of the last three years Clifton said next year's goal will again be more than $5 million...