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Harvard University Jazz Band. The Jazz Band will offer a free concert including Chick Corea's "Spain" and Chuck Mangione's "Klee Impressions," featuring trombonists Carl Fontana and Phil Wilson. Arrangements by other top jazz bands are on the bill. Monday, April 29 at Sanders Theater, 8:15 p.m., free...
Nearly everyone in business talks about improving productivity, but notable breakthroughs are rare. Last year productivity in U.S. manufacturing rose 4% v. 5.8% in 1971. Lately the workers at Kaiser Steel Corp.'s continuous-weld pipe mill at Fontana, Calif., have shown that dramatic gains can be made with only minor changes in methods and machines. In the last three months of 1972 they raised their productivity by a herculean...
...Stakhanovites* had a powerful incentive. Last October Kaiser officials announced that the 4,000-ton-a-month plant was being shut down, a victim of rising costs and stiffening foreign competition; a ton of two-inch Fontana pipe that sold for $300 was being offered by Japanese mills for $240. Recalls Dino Papavero, president of United Steelworkers Local 2869: "We asked management to give us a chance to make the mill...
Still, the successful experiment may fail to keep the plant open. Because labor accounts for only one-ninth of the cost of making Fontana pipe, increased productivity has trimmed the price of the finished product by only some $11 a ton. "That isn't the $60 it would take to match Japan's price," says Robinson. Kaiser executives refuse to disclose when a final decision will be made on the mill's fate. For the moment, Fontana workers are hustling and hoping on a day-to-day basis...
ATLANTA, GA. Civic Center. How Now, Dow Jones with Tony Randall and Arlene Fontana. Set in the golden canyons of Wall Street, the musical manages occasional humor about stocks and bonds...