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Firing Up "Nancy dear," said U.S. Steel's Chairman Ben Fairless, "come on up here with Grandpappy and light your furnace." Before a crowd of 200 Big Steel officials, families and friends, Fairless' red-haired seven-year-old granddaughter touched an oil torch to a 6-ft. fuse, which began to sputter like a Fourth of July sparkler. Inside a giant blast furnace, the fuse ignited a stack of oil-soaked railroad ties, which in turn set fire to a charge of coke and started the furnace. A few minutes later, Nancy's sister Carol, 5, touched...
...great that it would force Congress to pass stringent legislation, to regulate labor as a state does a public utility. This would virtually climinate collective bargaining, and transform both parties into little more than vast lobbies, pressuring the government for favorable decisions. In short, such a merger would fuse politics and industrial relations, as they are fused in Europe...
They might have remembered the editorial in the CRIMSON in 1895 which set the fuse to the idea. "Social chaos reigns at Harvard," it began, and argued that the transition from small college to bustling University had left the club system insufficient in its wake. According to the CRIMSON, one club open to all was the only solution...
...with the army; in Teheran it lay with the mob. Yet neither group was strong enough to rule alone. To give Egypt enduring government, the army needed popular support. Iran's mob, the power behind Mossadegh, needed even more urgently the support of the Iranian army. To fuse and discipline army and mob was a task for no one less than another Kemal Ata-türk, whose strong rule made Turkey modern and democratic in one generation. No such towering figure has yet appeared in Egypt or Iran...
...Latin teachers* recently agreed that the event which would give them most pleasure and at the same time mightily advance the cause of true education would be to blow up Teachers College at Columbia University. Mortimer Jerome Adler would probably volunteer to light the fuse...