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...night before his death he had dinner with friends and then returned to his studio to work through the late hours of the night -- the routine he had followed for years. He worked continually, made sketches as naturally as speaking, and finally every scrap he signed, every napkin he doodled on had its value...
...former Italian colony was, and for the most part still is, a vast desert, more than three times the size of France but inhabited by fewer than 2,000,000 people. Their chief exports consisted of camels, dates and scrap metal from the battle wreckage of World War II. Their per capita income: $50 a year. But underneath the desert, undiscovered until the late 1950s, lay the oil that would fuel Gaddafi's ambitions for Libya...
Like a wallflower at the country club ball, Ogden Corp. remained relatively unnoticed among the conglomerates that flourished in the '60s. Despite its relative anonymity, though, Ogden is among the 100 biggest corporations in the country-a scrap metal-shipbuilding-food service empire that generates annual sales of more than $1 billion. It also has recovered more rapidly from ill fortune than many farther-famed conglomerates...
...area needing little attention was the metals division, which provides more than half the company's profits and almost a third of its revenues. The keystone of this division is Luria Bros. & Co., the world's largest scrap-metal firm. Ablon, a onetime business instructor at Ohio State who came to Ogden from Luria in 1962, is satisfied with the conglomerate's progress but far from smug about it. Having got Ogden moving again, Ablon dryly remarks: "The most positive thing we can do now is not to blow...
...contact with students and that's the only way to improve," he says. "The curriculum has to account for the black student's interest--where he comes from." The contacts forced Monro to redefine his traditional theories of teaching and success. Good teaching became a readiness to scrap traditional ideas in favor of classroom gold--the approach that works." And success became any evidence of improvement-- "I work with the individual and I only want him to move up from where he starts." Monro points out that by the time Miles students graduate, their academic performances have no correlation...