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Lately, Gyllenhammar has been concentrating on ways to help his workers enjoy their jobs. Since becoming chief executive 16 months ago, he has overseen $30 million in improvements in Volvo plants-adding saunas, Ping Pong and coffee-break rooms, swimming pools and libraries. He is investing another $50 million in two plants scheduled for completion in 1974, in which "work teams" of 20 will replace much of the assembly lines. Instead of each worker performing a single, repetitive operation, he or she will work as part of a group that will be responsible for assembling large components and subassemblies, like...
...membership in the Harrisburg lodge has dropped from 2,500 to about 1,200. But one member sitting at the lodge bar professed helplessness. "No one in a local can say we'll do this or that. The bylaws are controlled at the Supreme level." Indeed, Mooseheart has overseen Lodge 107's defense, and it has paid most of the substantial legal fees. The organization's whites-only policy has also involved other lodges in local lawsuits, but no change in the policy is planned...
...kill him. Society concurs; at Langmann's trial, the Judge decides that "such is the rule: an eye for an eye. Only a fool waits for the exception. A man of sense would not expect something to drink from his enemy." And with a final turn of the screw, overseen by the "God up in heaven, God of things as they are," Brecht ends his sermon...
John B. Fox, Jr. '59--who has overseen the growth of the Office for Graduate and Career Planning (OGCP) since 1967--said yesterday that he expects to resign the office directorship "sometime in the next calendar year...
...construction of the new boathouse has been realized by the guiding hand of Bemis, internationally famous as the Dean of American yachting and rule expert for racing. Through his guidance Bemis has overseen the fund-raising and construction of this first sailboat house for Harvard. He has drawn upon his vast circle of friendships and colleagues to sell the project Modestly he credits the moral support of the University and Dept. of Athletics and the substantial contribution of Harold S. Vanderbilt '07 as the prime movers...