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...This year's team has great depth," number three player John Fishwick said yesterday. Fishwick and teammates Scott Walker, Greg Eisenbrand, Harrison Lauer, and Dick Amos are unbeaten so far this season in singles competition...
Early in the match, it seemed that Harvard was on the way to another convincing victory as Charles Elliot and John Fishwick swept their opening games...
Last week John P. Fishwick, 55, N&W's chief executive for the past 21 months, went to Wall Street to tell analysts what they had already assumed: after deducting $15 million from earnings as a result of the Amtrak takeover of its long-haul passenger business, the Roanoke-based N&W still had a net profit last year of $63 million. That was by no means N&W's best year; in 1966 it earned $98 million. But unlike the other large Eastern railroads, which all reported losses after extraordinary expenses last year, N&W had been...
...Fishwick, a former attorney, is a prudent cost cutter; he has trimmed by almost one-third the number of reports that executives file, thus saving $520,000 a year-the price of a pair of new locomotives. But he has not skimped on employee training. All upper-and middle-ranking employees must complete a one-week computer course, and all salesmen will take a one-week course taught by Psychological Associates, Inc., St. Louis consultants who claim to build "persuasive communications skills...
...back as 1965, Fishwick's dream was to merge the N&W with Chesapeake and Ohio to create a system strong enough to compete with what became Penn Central. The merger idea was put on the back burner when the Penn Central went broke. Fishwick has since turned his attention to making N&W the nation's No. 1 railroad for service...