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...Steel Corp. chopped almost 17,000; among others, it dropped 200 engineers in Chicago and 100 scientists, mostly Ph.D.s, at Monroeville, Pa. Two years ago U.S. Steel had 13 administrative vice presidents and 45 garden-variety v.p.s; now the respective totals are four and 38. At Jones & Laughlin Steel's Pittsburgh works, job cuts have bred a strange situation: some high-seniority steelworkers have been kept on only by being bumped to the lower-paying plant cafeteria, where they have replaced waitresses who in turn have been shunted to menial jobs in the mill so that the lowest-seniority...
...Producer Michael S. Laughlin and Director Paul Magwood placed a black-bordered ad in the Hollywood Reporter a few weeks ago that said: "Regarding what was our film Chandler, let's give credit where credit is due. We sadly acknowledge that all editing, post-production as well as additional scenes were executed by James T. Aubrey Jr. We are sorry." Laughlin and Magwood claim that Magwood was locked out of the MGM cutting room, and that Aubrey inserted several minutes of new footage to simplify the plot and replaced their nostalgic score with a trendy one. The result, says...
With such high stakes in the balance, discontented producers like Michael Laughlin feel little confidence that their suits will succeed. "You just can't deal with Aubrey," he says. "He realizes that litigation can be a great expense, and that because of legal delays the film will have disappeared long before your case comes to court...
...charm and intelligence belongs to him. His home is decorated with originals by Renoir, Rothko and Braque, as well as by a wife who is very nearly as elitist as himself. He stars at academic conferences and commutes to Washington to advise an old friend and fellow millionaire, Bill Laughlin, about his ascending political career...
...diligence paid off. Justice charged four big companies with 73 violations of the 1899 Refuse Act, which forbids discharge of pollutants into navigable waters. The defendants, accused of dumping acids, cyanides and metals into the rivers, are Pennsylvania Industrial Chemical Corp. and three top steel companies: U.S. Steel, Jones & Laughlin and Wheeling-Pittsburgh. If convicted, the companies could be fined up to $2,500 for each violation. Under the 1899 law, moreover, Professors Nixon and Zavodni stand to get a bounty-50% of the assessed fines. If they get enough cash, they plan to organize a river-monitoring service that...