Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...still having trouble with his English. This brain power, when combined with mechanics, sometimes finds surprising outlets. Some of the japes at Caltech make ordinary college-boy pranks look like arrangements of kindergarten blocks. On one occasion a senior opened his door to find a completely assembled and working Ford in his room. Another senior found an assembled cement mixer, and still another bumped into a meteorological balloon that stretched from floor to ceiling and from wall to wall-completely filled with water. Even dance decorations may inspire the young scientific mind. Once Dr. George Mayhew, general panjandrum of student...
Leadership v. Authority. Through those five years, DuBridge ruled with an easy mixture of tact and firmness. He not only kept his freewheeling scientists happy, he also managed the military. Says H. Rowan Gaither Jr., now president of the Ford Foundation, "He exerted not authority, but leadership." Adds Physicist Rabi: "He believed in his people and what they could do. He made the people there become great men because he believed them great." Most important, he would back up his scientists against the most stubborn military conservatism. When Physicist Luis Alvarez invented G.C.A., he had little to support...
After four weeks of secret negotiations with General Motors and Ford, the C.I.O.'s United Automobile Workers last week reported how much its guaranteed annual wage demands would cost...
...union estimated that its G.A.W. plan would cost the companies 8? an hour per worker; at the end of five years, General Motors' fund would total about $350 million, while Ford's would reach $130 million. But, argued the union, the net cost to the companies would be much less, because the money going into the funds would be tax-free and not subject to the current 52% corporation tax. Thus, according to the U.A.W., the actual net cost for five years would be only "about $175 million for G.M., and about $60 million for Ford...
...Emmet Kelly, shown here, and the rest of the Ringling Bros., Barnum and Bailey cast will give two shows daily through Sunday. For as little as $1.50 students can lose themselves in a dreamworld of clowns, high wire acts, side shows, and menageries. All seats are reserved, but any Ford Foundation students under twelve can get in for half-price by going on a weekday afternoon to the matinee...