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...from overlooked, long dormant volcanoes. To monitor a volcano requires identifying it beforehand; as recently as 1981, Pinatubo was not even included in the worldwide registry of volcanoes maintained by the Smithsonian Institution. "When a nice little hill covered with lush vegetation finally wakes up," observes Smithsonian volcanologist Tom Simkin, "it's going to cause a lot of damage." Fortunately, scientists were able to see that some nice little hills in the Philippines and Japan were turning nasty while people still had time to get away...
William E. Simkin, 60, who served for eight years as the director of the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service, will come to Harvard as the Meyer Kestnbaum Fellow, and as a Fellow of the Institute of Politics in the John as a Lecturer in Business Administration...
While at the University, he will spend his research time writing about collective bargaining and the mediation process. In his 30 years of labor arbitration and mediation, Simkin has handled some 4000 cases, including issues in virtually every major industry...
...Simkin was named director of the Federal Mediation Service by President Kennedy, and served in the post until President Johnson left office last January...
...steel strike, with its inevitably depressing consequences for both the economy and the Viet Nam war effort, would have provoked White House intervention. Union representatives and Chief Industry Negotiator R. Conrad Cooper of U.S. Steel shrouded their meetings in unaccustomed secrecy, avoided the usual inflammatory statements. When Federal Mediator Simkin showed up to offer his assistance, he was politely told to go home. He did so, and settlement was reached 28 hours before the strike deadline...