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...selection procedure usually means that if there's a donnybrook in the area, you will probably find Diehl in the limelight working with a partner from New Jersey or New York, a setup which is known as a "split crew." This was the case for the televised Boston College-Georgetown hoedown on February 21, for which Diehl arrived his usual hour and a half before the opening tap-off. He had worked Harvard's five-point loss to Penn the night before at Philadelphia's Palestra...
Although he has been assigned to Winthrop House, Speir has chosen to live off-campus. His temporary roommate in Winthrop said yesterday Speir left because "the setup wasn't great in the living room...
Managing a modern corporation has put an increasing strain on the time, skills and knowledge of the chief executive. As corporate complexities multiply, more companies are turning to a management setup that attempts to broaden corporate leadership by drastically altering the traditional chain of command. Instead of one man at the pinnacle, the companies are creating the so-called "office of the chairman," which is composed of three, four or even five top officers who share responsibility for running the company and transform the old method of solitary decision making into a kind of group think. Last week the idea...
Telling. The setup is likely to last until 1978, when Wood is expected to step down. Though Sears has problems, it is in generally good shape; last week the company reported that sales during the four-week period ended Dec. 27 totaled a record $1.7 billion. Analyst Walter Loeb of the Manhattan investment banking house of Morgan Stanley believes the new office will enable Sears' key officers to concentrate more intensively on sprucing up the firm's product styles, merchandising techniques and customer relations...
FIFTH PARADOX: Stanley Kubrick himself. Barry Lyndon may be an austere epic, but an epic it surely is. Such works pose complex logistical and technical problems that must be solved along with the aesthetic questions that arise every time a new camera setup is chosen. Kubrick's basic cast and crew of 170-augmented by hundreds of extras and supporting specialists as needed -crawled from location to location across Ireland and England for 8% months. Normally, the commanders of cinematic operations on this scale are outgoing, not to say colorfully flamboyant characters...