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...Youngman's got the violin--great for pacing. Frye does imitations--classy. Me? I say pathetic things about myself for a living. All I've got going for me is the pathos. Did you know that Art Carney turned down an invitation to speak at Harvard Class Day Exercises in 1957 because he felt he couldn't miss a single taping of the Honeymooners? You know I write all my own material? Nobody else wanted to. I don't get no respect. The mailman bites my dog. My mother-in-law bites the mailman. My wife is so dumb that...
...management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John R. Beckett, chairman, Transamerica Corp.; Philip E. Beekman, president, the Seagram Co.; James F. Bere, chairman, Borg-Warner Corp.; Theodore F. Brophy, chairman, General Telephone & Electronics Corp.; Philip Caldwell, vice chairman of the board, Ford Motor Co.; Michael D. Dingman, chairman, Wheelabrator-Frye Inc.; Edwin D. Dodd, chairman, Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Donald N. Frey, chairman, Bell & Howell Co.; W.H. Krome George, chairman, Aluminum Co. of America; Henry J. Heinz II, chairman, H.J. Heinz Co.; William A. Hewitt, chairman, Deere & Co.; Barron Hilton, president, Hilton Hotels Corp.; Matina S. Horner, president, Radcliffe College; James...
Garbage can be golden," gushes New York City Sanitation Commissioner Anthony Vaccarello. "Garbage is the sow's ear that can be turned into a silk purse," adds Michael Dingman, president of Wheelabrator-Frye, a maker of environmental-control equipment. Such glowing descriptions of refuse, which is more conventionally considered a smelly, unsightly and unwanted byproduct of urban life, underscore the increasing popularity of trash as fuel in a U.S. facing growing shortages of energy...
...with the capacity to transform an average of 700 tons of trash a day into pellets that are the energy equivalent of 120,000 tons of coal a year; it sells them to Commonwealth Edison Co. In Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons of garbage a day and feed the byproduct fuel...
...prospects brighten for making big money out of muck, a whole new industry has sprung up. Some firms, such as Wheelabrator-Frye. Grumman Corp. and UOP Inc., have been using technologies that basically consist of burning the trash in specially constructed heavy-duty incinerators to produce steam for electricity and heating. Other companies, including American Can, Raytheon, CEA and Occidental Petroleum, are experimenting with more complex systems that would produce synthetic fuels...