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...penchant for headlines -but D. (for Davis) Doyle Mize does not. A self-effacing entrepreneur known by only a few in the upper echelons of business, Mize, 48, is chairman of Houston's Southdown, Inc. In three years under Mize, Southdown has acquired a cluster of companies that drill for oil, develop land, refine sugar, make cement and sell beer, pushing its sales up from $35 million to $182 million, with net profits of $38 million last year. Now Mize is spreading into the thriving California wine business...
...decided, "What I'm really after is money." His bench mate, Robert Sandberg, 19, a dropout from the City University of New York, agrees: "As a technician, you can still get rich." Katharine Gibbs, which graduates 2,000 secretaries a year from five East Coast sites, requires relentless drill in typing, shorthand and other office skills ("It's the most brutal school in the world," says one recent graduate), but it places almost all of its graduates in jobs...
...Horner, however. Daughter of a Greek professor stranded in the U.S. by the outbreak of World War II, she was born in Roxbury, Mass., and neighbors recall that even when she was a kindergartner, she used to drill local youngsters in spelling and arithmetic. She won an A.B. in psychology from Bryn Mawr, where she met her husband, Dr. Joseph L. Horner, who was studying for an M.S. and is now a research physicist in Cambridge for the U.S. Department of Transportation. They have three children, born while both Homers were getting doctorates at the University of Michigan, and absolutely...
...Harvard is willing to assist in relocation, but added that he thinks the Nixons "haven't been working too hard" at finding a new place. "We've been looking for every incentive to get them to leave," Moulton said. He was quick to add, though, that Monday's fire drill was not one of these incentives...
...would not comment on the administrative mix-up which caused a Harvard official Monday to give permission for the firemen to tear holes in the roof and floors of the building as part of a practice drill...