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While the decision in part aims "to arrest the decay more quickly." Dean of the College John B Fox '59 said the new plan also seeks to repair the dormitories "in the way that makes the most sense financially...
...result of a minimum wage reduction, for instance, would suffer an incalculable loss of self-esteem, knowing his employer measures his worth in terms of the legally allowable minimum. Imagine, too, the feelings of those employed in the Works Progress Administration who, under the Newsweek plan, would work to repair the American infrastructure of highways, bridges, sewers, ports and dams that support the nation's commerce. Presumably by threatening to deny unemployment benefits, the government would coerce the jobless into performing what the laborers would likely perceive as make-work. The entire scene seems almost like a tremendous civilian chain...
DIED. Leroy R. Grumman, 87, self-assured, no-frills mechanical engineer and aeronautical designer who turned his Long Island-based aircraft-repair shop, started in 1929 with $32,000, into one of the country's largest defense contractors (1981 sales: $1.95 billion); in Manhasset, N.Y. During World War II Grumman Hellcats, Wildcats and Avengers chalked up 60% of the enemy kills on the Pacific front. Grumman's company was working on the lunar excursion module when, in 1966, diabetic and almost blind, the avid ex-pilot retired as board chairman...
William S. Flanagan, shift fireman for B&G's utility's operation division, said yesterday that the delays are due to "renovations additions. and repair to the heating systems of all Houses on the river...
...Repair of the heating systems has been delayed because of delays at B&G in receiving necessary equipment, Marciano said. "I only received the last load of equipment last week," he added...