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...Minuteman U. has 132 officer-students and a faculty of Ohio State professors who volunteer to spend three to six months at the Ellsworth Air Force Base, working under Resident Director Robert E. Hastings, 35, an Ohio State assistant professor and former Air Force ground crew chief. No diploma mill, it offers the same courses and requires the same standards from servicemen as from the civilians back in Ohio. The chief difference is the academic schedule, which has to fit the students' erratic hours. The library at Minuteman U. is open day and night, all week. The students attend...
Simon hinted at possible instances of mismanagement, ordered a three-man committee of review to look into the company's past dealings. The committee's first case: a $70 million Wheeling contract for a Blaw-Knox hot strip mill at a time when, says Simon, Blaw-Knox had little experience in such work-but did have a member on the Wheeling board. Giving Blaw-Knox the order, said Simon, was like "buying an Edsel with a Ford on the board." What did William Steele think of Simon's blast? "Without justification," he said, taking off just enough...
...admired for her power in serious drama, she shows here that comedy is just as much her forte. Or, in this case, fortissimo--for she bulldozes her way right through the show with an incredible display of dynamic vigor and histrionic virtuosity. She can take a run-of-the-mill phrase or line and make you double over. What a gall Alan Alda makes up the rest of this tandem tantrum...
...employees do, at company expense-Inland has developed an excellent community image that impresses local customers. The company recognizes, of course, that it cannot meet its challenge from the East with good will alone. It is spending $125 million this year for a computerized hot strip mill, a tin-plate cold rolling mill and two 250-ton oxygen furnaces at its huge Indiana Harbor complex in East Chicago, the most concentrated facility in the industry...
...Steel is in the midst of a $300 million expansion of its Gary works, and second-ranked Bethlehem has already spent $350 million on its new Burns Harbor installation, where steel-plate production is scheduled to begin this month. Jones & Laughlin is tripling the size of its Hammond mill, and National is turning out flat rolled steel from its new mill at Portage. When all the new facilities are completed, Midwest steel capacity may exceed consumption by as much as 30%. Says a Pittsburgh steel executive: "I don't know who is going to hurt whom...