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Serious & Difficult. In the aftermath of the aluminum settlement, that industry's leaders, Alcoa, Reynolds and Kaiser, promptly raised prices by 4% on primary ingots as well as a number of fabricated products. A hefty settlement in the current negotiations, similarly, is almost sure to result in steel price increases, which will make it even more difficult for U.S. steelmakers to compete against foreign companies. The union contends that the best way to combat the problem is by imposing quotas on steel imports, but that solution, obviously favored by the companies as well, runs afoul of the Administration...
...That Ibis is no chicken," cracked La Farge, carrying the winged creature back to his perch on the Lampoon's Kaiser Wilhelm helmet cupola...
Corporate profits for the first three months of the year fattened significantly, especially compared with the mini-recession first quarter of 1967. Net earnings were up 7% for General Electric, 10% for Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical, 20% for Du Pont. The increases were big enough to set first-quarter profit records at RCA (up 5%), Bank of America (up 12.8%), Westinghouse Electric (up 26%), Weyerhaeuser (up 30%), IBM (up 36%) and Magnavox...
Warner B. Berthoff '47 and David D. Perkins '51, professors of English, and Bate, Abbott Lawrence Lowell Professor of Humanities, plan to take sabbaticals. Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, and Walter J. Kaiser, associate professor of English and Comparative Literature, will be on leaves of absence...
Brower will spend next year at Oxford on a Fulbright Fellowship. He will lecture on English and finish a book on Shakespeare. Kaiser plans to use his leave to finish a book on Spenser...