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...Cyrus Eaton is one of the most contradictory figures in U.S. business: an archetypal capitalist worth more than $150 million, he regularly visits Communist capitals from Havana to Hanoi in an attempt to promote East-West détente. He has made the Cleveland-based Chesapeake& Ohio one of the few profitable railroads in the country; last year it doubled its earnings, to $60 million. Eaton, at 89, talks and acts as though he plans to stay active in business forever-and lately that ambition has become all too painfully believable for his impatient corporate colonels. Last week, while Eaton...
Watkins had been openly pressing for the top spot for some time, but Eaton had refused to budge. The spare, white-haired tycoon's position was further weakened because of the carload of enemies he has made at the White House. He was a vigorous critic of the Viet Nam War and called President Nixon a "dictator"; for imposing wage-price controls. Eaton is a veteran of boardroom battles during a career of more than half a century, in which he has controlled such major corporations as Republic Steel and Goodyear. He may not be through yet. He still...
HAROLD I. EATON Margate City...
Actually, one common form of "viral" pneumonia is caused by an organism that is neither a bacterium nor a virus. Known as Mycoplasma pneumoniae, or the "Eaton agent" (named for its discoverer), it is the smallest free-living agent capable of infecting man. The microbe is best known for downing whole barracks or dormitories of victims at a time. One of the few advantages of having Mycoplasma pneumonia is that, like the bacterial forms, it is susceptible to attack by antibiotics...
After Faculty members had spent an hour discussing the proposal, Samuel H. Beer, Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, approached Robert J. Kiely, associate dean of Undergraduate Education and the author of the calendar-revision motion, and told him that he planned to move to recommit the plan to the Council. Although Kiely insisted that he wanted a vote on the plan at the meeting, Beer decided to forward the motion, explaining to the Faculty, "I don't think the Faculty Council looked closely enough at this." Beer is a member of the Council...