Word: gott
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wednesday night Miss Wilsen presented a recital for soprano remarkable for its originality. Instead of the usual chronological sequence of song groups by Schubert, Schumann, Faure, Wolf, Debussy, and so on, her program was divided between Cantata No. 51 of J.S. Bach ("Jauchzet Gott in allen Landen"), setting by various composers of Goethe's "Rastlose Liebe" and Paul Verlaine's "Clair de lune," along with the cycle On This Island by Benjamin Britten to poetry of W. H. Auden...
...lowest first half since 1964-in great part because of dwindling orders from the auto industry, steel's biggest customer. But an upturn in Detroit's August orders for 1968 auto models has brightened steelmakers' outlook. U.S. Steel Corp.'s new president, Edwin H. Gott, last week predicted a normal steel output during the July-September quarter, followed by "material improvement" in the final quarter of this year...
Another Candidate? A soft-spoken man who joined U.S. Steel in 1937 as an industrial engineer at its Youngstown, Ohio, works, Gott moved quickly through a host of managerial positions at other company plants before returning to Youngstown as general superintendent in 1951. Two years later, he assumed the first of several company-wide posts, became executive vice president for production...
...problems that Gott and his colleagues face are best illustrated by the fact that U.S. Steel, which at one time accounted for 65% of the nation's raw steel production, has slipped to 25%. Like the rest of the industry, the company has been hurt in recent years by Japanese and European imports, competition from other materials, and belated modernization. As its five spanking-new basic-oxygen furnaces (three more are being built) and its ultramodern continuous-casting operations attest, the company is finally starting to meet the situation headon...
...harsh spotlight during Blough's 1962 confrontation with President Kennedy. The man generally figured to have the inside track for the top job is Executive Vice President R. Heath Larry, 53, a former company labor negotiator who now serves as Blough's right-hand man. Ed Gott's new responsibilities might well signal the emergence of another candidate...