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...Charge on Extras. Swept up by the charges were the industry's six largest companies-U.S. Steel, Bethlehem, Republic, Armco, National and Jones & Laughlin-as well as Wheeling Steel and National's Great Lakes Steel sub sidiary. Conspicuously not charged were Inland Steel and Kaiser Steel, two major producers that are generally shut out of the industry's Establishment because they often buck the prices set by bigger companies-as they...
Chemist Robert Havemann is a tortured German intellectual who embraced Communism before 1933 as a way to oppose Nazism. Then a topflight scientist at Berlin's famed Kaiser-Wilhelm (now Max Planck) Institute, he was saved from a Nazi death sentence when the German army argued that he could be more useful with his head on than off. As a result, he did chemical research for the Wehrmacht during World War II while locked up in Brandenburg Prison. After the war Communist Havemann became one of East Germany's star scholars, won the Patriotic Order of Merit from...
...need for new power plants outpaces their construction. In a seven-year program, Australia is doubling its electrical output, partly to serve such expanding aluminum giants as Alcoa, Alcan, Kaiser and Pechiney. Iran has completed a new water and power project that is hailed as a Middle East TV A and will soon include an $800 million petrochemical complex. Brazil desperately needs more power; in the industrial city of Sao Paulo, which boasts steel mills, auto plants and TV antennas on slum roofs, 30% more power is needed than is produced...
Walter J. Kaiser, assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature, will study the development of certain themes in Renaissance thought and literature while travelling in Italy. Heiko A. Oberman, professor of Church History, will go to Holland, where he will work on a book about the medieval source of Reformation thought...
...Since he moved up from president last April, he has spent most of his time "thinking, talking and listening about marketing and sales." Last week Litchfield raised hundreds of Alcoa products by 1? to 2? per Ib. to take advantage of a strengthening aluminum market. Competitors Reynolds Metals and Kaiser Aluminum quickly followed his lead-and then went one better by increasing basic aluminum prices by a penny, to 24? a Ib. Will the boost stick? That depends largely on whether Alcoa and Larry Litchfield decide to accept...