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Died. Henry J. Kaiser Jr., 44, lanky vice president and director of his father's steel, aluminum and auto empire, who, first stricken by multiple sclerosis in 1944, defied orders to rest ("This to me was like a sentence to a living death"), kept on working even after he was confined to a wheelchair; in Oakland, Calif...
...HENRY S. KAISER...
...most virile of pursuits-war.* German soldiers used to grow mustaches when they found their Kraft ebbing. British soldiers during the Crimean War gained a fearsome respect for their fearsomely foliaged Turkish allies, and many of those who survived proudly bore a bristle back home. Such pubigerous leaders as Kaiser Wilhelm, Hitler, Stalin, De Gaulle and Chiang Kai-shek maintained the military tradition of the brush-style upper...
...humor. The most routine experiences during his childhood in Briil, Germany-a walk into a forest, a case of measles, the death of a pet bird-produced visions that never left him. Somehow the most painful experience of his youth, his four years as an artillery engineer for the Kaiser, has become with time part nightmare and part joke. He was, he says, wounded twice at the front: once by the recoil of a gun and once by the kick of a mule. It was "four years of nonsense," and when peace came he was ready to move...
...similar committee is at work at Kaiser Steel Co. But many authorities think such efforts are far too few, that management must do more. E. C. Schulze, acting area director of Ohio's state employment service, says: "I've yet to see an employer's group willing to take a look at this problem and seek solutions. They refuse to recognize their responsibility. They talk about long-term trends -but nobody talks about the immediate problem of jobless, needy people...