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...than McDonald in the coming negotiations, but also added: "We will do everything humanly possible to avoid a strike." On the steel side, Wheeling Steel, the nation's tenth largest producer, agreed to abide by the final terms, but decided to withdraw from the eleven-company bargaining team. Norton Simon, the California industrialist who took over as chairman of Wheeling last year, complained that the steel industry "seems to live in a state of constant crisis. Wheeling can't afford that, and I doubt that the industry can either...
...University" people on the Committee is Norton Long, a Brandeis professor and a member of the Harvard-M.I.T. Joint Center for Urban Studies. Long heads the special research subcommittee, which will attempt to break down the gross statistics that the committee now possesses. With unemployment figures, for example, Long's group will try to find out how many people were unemployed because of old age, how many because of poor education, how many because of disability, how many because of alcholism...
...Norton Simon startled museum trustees by offering matching funds for a separate art museum. Museum President Edward Carter, a shrewd retailer (Broadway-Hale Stores) as well as chairman of the University of California's Board of Regents, set out to raise $4,500,000, and through his persuasion wound up with $12 million. At a white-tie extravaganza last week, Comedian Bob Hope called the museum "the most magnificent tax deduction I've ever seen." He had a right to say so: he donated...
...life that seems to tilt a plate of cherries into the viewer's mouth, is brought together to demonstrate one of the museum's strengths. Great Renaissance paintings, still in short supply despite loans of Botticellis, Van Dycks, and an individual Bellini, Giorgione and Canaletto from the Norton Simon Foundation, share space with Andrea di Orcagna's incomparable trecento marbles of musicians with musette, timbrel and zither, like pearly leprechauns playing away the centuries...
...MOTHER TONGUE by Lancelot Hogben. 294 pages. Norton...