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Like Menk, Gilliland looks to computers as a vital tool for further streamlining operations. The management itself is already streamlined. Frisco executives are young (average age: 45). Gilliland started as an office boy for the Santa Fe when he was only 14 and, despite five years of night school, never earned a college degree. These days most future Frisco executives come to the railroad straight out of college...
...dressing rooms of the Santa Fe Opera last week, the Metropolitan Opera's George Shirley daubed his face with a pinkish cream, molded layers of face putty across his high cheekbones and along his nose. The makeup had nothing to do with his role in the U.S. premiere of Hans Werner Henze's The Stag King. It is a ritual that Shirley, 31, performs before every opera, a mask to disguise one of his real-life characteristics-that he is a Negro...
...also displayed a lyrical, handsomely rounded voice, which prompted one Manhattan critic to declare: "Here, at last, is a tenor who might some day aspire to the supreme place still occupied by Richard Tucker." Though Henze's modernist fantasy was received with some eyebrow-raising by the Santa Fe audience, Shirley drew a rousingly enthusiastic ovation...
...nominee at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn.,entered Government service through the National Institute of Public Affairs, served as a personnel staff officer in the Army Air Forces. In 1947 he was given a 90-day assignment to run personnel and organization for the Atomic Energy Commission in Santa Fe, N. Mex., stayed on to act as Los Alamos town manager as well until 1951. He joined the Civil Service Commission in 1953 as executive director and, apart from a three-year period when he worked on the "outside" in the field of education, has been with the commission ever...
...illness that is gradually choking to death a million or more Americans might be expected to be a well-known subject of intensive attack by medical scientists. But the progressive and eventually fatal shortness of breath that doctors call emphysema (pronounced em-fe-see-muh) is so little known that it has no common English name. Until recently few laymen even realized that it existed,* and most doctors thought it was rare. But emphysema is rapidly changing its status. It is now recognized as probably the most common disabling disorder of the respiratory system...