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...became the first Negro elected to the board of a major U.S. manufacturing company-U.S. Industries Inc., producer of automation equipment, with 1963 sales of $96 million. He is a partner in the Manhattan law firm that handles U.S. Industries' labor matters. A star halfback and Phi Beta Kappa student at Cornell, he later served as antitrust counsel to the House Judiciary Committee, became a campaigning Republican, and in 1959 was appointed a judge in New York City. As trim as a college athlete, Pierce still finds time to teach a law course at New York University; last...
...promoting Paul Francis Lorenz, 47, from assistant general manager of the Lincoln-Mercury Division to vice president and chief of the whole division. He replaces Ben Mills, 49, one of the original Whiz Kids, who was moved up to vice president in charge of Ford Motor purchasing. A Phi Bete (Chicago, '41), Lorenz is a finance-trained protege of former Ford President Robert McNamara, was his personal assistant for three years, even wears his hair slicked back like McNamara's. "I had the rare opportunity to see at first hand an unequaled standard of management excellence," says Lorenz...
...superstition-ridden Laos, Kong Le was believed invulnerable to gunfire. The bad, or cotton strings, he wore tied around his wrists and a stone amulet he carried in a pouch at his waist kept his 32 souls (one for each major part of the body) from fleeing. The phi or demon who guarded him was undoubtedly among the underworld's most powerful, for Kong Le had never been wounded...
Conant, who is attending his fiftieth class reunion, will be the Orator at the Literary Exercises of the Harvard chapter of Phi Beta Kappa in Sanders Theatre at 11 a.m. The Poet will be Theodore Morison '23, professor of English; Ralph N. Helverson, minister of the First Church Unitarian, Cambridge, will be the Chaplain...
Members of the class gained renown both in college and in later life. Among these are Richard H. Sullivan, First Class Marshal, who now is president of Reed College; James Tobin, first marshal of Phi Beta Kappa, who is a professor of economics at Yale and a former member of the President's Council of Economic Advisors; and Cleveland Amory, president of the CRIMSON and secretary of his class, who wrote The Proper Bostonians and is a commentator on American social life