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...called "frangibility," meaning that they break away on impact. After a motorist in Texas was killed crashing into a conventional post, the state replaced it with a frangible one; a few days later, right on schedule, another driver plowed into the new post-and walked away without a scratch...
...turn out this year was the finest I have ever seen at Harvard," Marion said. "In the past I have had to work with inexperienced teams, teaching basics from scratch. The strategy has been to hope that four years of training would develop a talented and experienced varsity...
...council of outside advisers (among them: Health, Education and Welfare Secretary John W. Gardner), snared hefty foundation grants, nearly tripled the faculty (to 73), increased enrollment by more than 50% (625). He also broadened the curriculum to include ethics seminars and other subjects, built a vigorous research program from scratch. And what was once a California rich man's school also took on an international scope. Out of a conviction that Stanford "has an obligation to help management education develop in other countries," he set up a Stanford-run business school in Peru in 1964, has brought foreign students...
...Charles ("Tex") Thornton and Roy Ash, left in 1953 to found Litton Industries, a pioneering conglomerate that has turned out some prominent graduates of its own.* Singleton joined them, started Litton's inertial-guidance systems, and within six years built the company's electronics-equipment division from scratch into an $80 million-a-year operation. Says Singleton today: "When I went to Litton, I needed money and experience. I got both there." By 1960, he also had an itch to start his own business. He teamed up with Litton Colleague George Kozmetsky (now dean of the University...
...20th year as the first president of Brandeis University, Abram L. Sachar, 68, announced last week that he plans to retire as soon as a successor can be found. A passionate, strong-willed administrator whose phrasemaking flair and public charm raised $160 million to build the school from scratch, Sachar told the Brandeis trustees that the university needs a "reappraisal that new leadership can provide." The board voted to create for Sachar the advisory post of chancellor, in which he will continue to exercise his fund-raising talents. Sachar insists that his new job "will not impinge on the authority...