Word: mets
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...round-about way. For some twenty years, a committee headed by George P. Baker '25, then a professor and now dean of the Business School, had been researching the problems caused by the tremendous growth of aviation. In 1957-58, some of the members of this committee met to discuss the basic economic problems of the aircraft industry...
...strain of his double career forced him to quit the Met. On the prospects for contemporary composers these days, he is unfashionably optimistic. "We have a larger, more promising and better-educated group of composers in this country than we have ever had," he says. "They are being heard more than they were 20 years ago." Financially, a composer with talent "could expect to be doing pretty well by the time he is 45 or 50." Clearly, in more ways than one, Schuller is doing pretty well...
...relishes his ranch (a 200-acre spread with a private golf course near Palm Springs), his yacht (the 80-ft. Sirius II), his art collection (Rembrandt, El Greco, Vermeer, Rubens) and, above all, his privacy. Ahmanson runs his establishment from his midtown Los Angeles mansion. "I haven't met an employee in 20 years," he muses. "In insurance, maybe I had too much of people...
Ashland's finance committee has never met, there is no table of organization, and younger executives are simply too overworked to think up any make-work projects or write lengthy memorandums. The lone extravagance is a corporate jet that links isolated Ashland (pop. 32,700) with Wall Street and the world...
...floors above. Butcher still swims daily in his suburban pool, plays tennis regularly. Seabrook, a model-railroad buff, raises horses and collects antique carriages (he has two dozen) at his 4,200 acre farm in Salem, N.J. He and his wife, former United Press Correspondent Liz Toomey (whom he met at Grace Kelly's wedding to Monaco's Prince Rainier), often slip into 18th century costume for champagne-sipping country outings amid the asparagus and spinach; in winter they like to take guests across the fields for picnic dinners in the snowy woods...