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Chairman George M. Bunker of the Martin Co. announced last week that he would take personal charge of the company's Titan ICBM program and revamp the whole operation. All missile production, testing and launching will be brought into a new division, with headquarters shifted from Baltimore to Denver, where Martin produces the Titan. Denver's current boss, Howard W. ("Bucky") Merrill, will stay on as a Martin vice president, but relinquish top operational control of the Titan program to Bunker, who is moving to Denver...
...outstanding exception to the weaknesses of many aspects of the University is President Harnwell's Survey. This revolutionary report, designed to investigate and revamp every facility of the University, has already produced heartening results. Nearly every official office at Penn displays prominently the fat, red-bound notebooks that contain the Survey's findings to date. Although Harnwell still has a long way to go if he wants to make Penn's College of Arts and Sciences equal to those of the top-ranked institutions, he has at least raised the level of instruction in many of the other undergraduate colleges...
...Congress has shirked its responsibilty to revamp our manpower policy," Charles Weiss, Jr. former HLU secretary, declared yesterday. Our present policy, "conceived without any reference to our man-power needs," demands careful study rather than a "too-hasty repassage of the present law," he added...
...must revamp our manpower policy to bring it into line with strategic doctrine," the report added. Specially trained units, increased pay, more rapid promotion for servicemen, and exemptions of men in key occupations were recommended...
From then on, because Studebaker is a small company, Churchill often worked in the same room with his development team, consisting of five designers and 16 engineers. The trick was to do the job on a shoestring. The team found a way to revamp the dies from last year's models, use them to stamp the new car's sheet metal; all parts were bolted together instead of expensively welded; front and rear bumpers were made identical; the front sheet metal assembly was reduced to six pieces. In seven months the Lark was ready. Total development cost: less...