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...tile manufacturer, Schweiker grew up in the tiny southeastern Pennsylvania town of Worcester. His family is Pennsylvania Dutch and belongs to the small (2,600 members) Central Schwenkfelder Church, a Protestant sect with origins in Silesia. At 17, he enlisted in the Navy and served on the carrier Tarawa in World War II, then returned to Pennsylvania. After two years at Slippery Rock State College, he transferred to Penn State, where he graduated Phi Beta Kappa. He joined his father's business, eventually becoming vice president for sales...
...headmaster at Berwick Academy in South Berwick, Me., in the early '60s, Gauld (who has degrees from Bowdoin College and Boston University) grew discouraged with what he saw as the "coddling" of students, and an overemphasis on grades. With $100,000 borrowed from family and friends, Gauld bought an old mansion on the Maine coast and set up a school devoted to developing self-confidence and selfdiscipline. Novel and untested, Hyde could not hope to attract outstanding students; thus Gauld started by accepting teen-agers with a history of mental illness or drug problems. The student body now includes...
...reports the Japanese Ministry of Labor in a recent White Paper, this traditional arrangement is being challenged by enormous pressures for change. Japan's long postwar boom, in which the G.N.P. grew by an average of around 10% every year, has ended, and Japanese economic planners are expecting a modest 5% to 6% annual growth rate. Such a condition of low growth will necessarily cut job opportunities: unemployment has already crept up from a minuscule 1% to 2%. In addition, warns the White Paper, the composition of the labor force itself has radically altered. It is getting older...
...surprise decision grew out of a series of frustrations for the defense. The violence-preaching Harrises have been largely abandoned by the remnants of the militant left, and at the outset, they themselves ruled out any special fund raising efforts. That left the defense too pinched for elaborate investigation and preparation. The defendants, however, did have as their chief strategist Leonard Weinglass, veteran of the Chicago Seven trial, who was paid out of public funds. In addition, Bill Harris, 31, was permitted to represent himself; Emily, 29, was also active in the defense...
Real gross national product, the nation's total output of goods and services discounted for inflation, grew during the second three months of 1976 at an annual rate of 4.4%-less than half the first quarter's annualized rise of 9.2%. Reason: the first quarter got a lift from a switch by businessmen to restocking inventories they had sold off toward the end of 1975; that was not repeated. But "final sales"-sales of products that do not go into inventories-rose at an annual rate of 4.7%, 1% more than in the first quarter. Orders for durable...