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...film focuses on the problems of Jacob Horner (Stanley Keach), an English instructor with an affinity for nonsense, whose initial problem is psychosomatic paralysis. Horner's form of noninvolvement is meant to be seen as a psychotic reaction produced by the ugliness of American life...
...Horner ends up standing rigidly immobilized on a train platform while children, dogs, and commuters, come up, stare at him, touch him, and then go into the waiting trains. Eventually, he is rescued by a mysterious and flamboyant black Doctor (James Earl Jones) who takes him into a Remobilization Farm, where seated in the midst of the light show gadgetry of the Advice Room. Horner is advised to become a college instructor of prescriptive grammar. The rest of the film then, more or less, deals with Horner's adulterous relations with the wife of a fellow teacher, her impregnation...
Assisting Miss Glancy in the survey's preparation is Matina Horner, lecturer onSocial Relations. Other studies completed by Mrs. Horner show that when women are in a competitive situation with men, they lose their motivation for success, performing more poorly than their male counterparts. This loss of achievement motivation is especially true in a field marked by aggressiveness...
United Aircraft Corp., whose East Hartford, Conn., executive suite has been as stable as Fairchild's has been shaky, announced the Oct. 1 retirement at 65 of Chairman Horace Mansfield Horner, only the second boss that the huge aerospace company has had since it was founded 34 years ago. "Jack" Horner is the son of an early backer of Pratt & Whitney, United's creator. An engineer (Yale '26), he joined the engine maker right after graduation, when it had 80 employees and heady plans to build an aircraft engine called the Wasp. A high-performance engine...
...have challenges of their own. United's production schedules have been disrupted by Viet Nam priorities, and the company must simultaneously continue development (at a cost of some $80 million so far) of its JT9D jet engine for the next generation of airliners. Then, of course, there are Horner's records to be beaten, such as United's peak first-half earnings, announced last week, of $32.5 million on sales of $1.3 billion. That is about triple what the company was earning in an entire year as recently...