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...literally the master builder of the Third Reich-designing the monumental edifices that fulfilled his Führer's passion for grandeur-as well as the man who kept the Nazi war machine supplied. Now Albert Speer is content with more modest projects: writing his memoirs. When it was published six years ago, his Inside the Third Reich-a devastatingly intimate look at life within Hitler's inner circle-became an instant bestseller in West Germany and reached a wide audience abroad. The onetime Nazi architect in chief and Minister of Armaments and War Production has now completed...
Last week U.S. Steel Chairman Edgar Speer predicted that the industry's profits will shrink through the rest of this year and possibly into 1976. Independent experts agree that the party is over; already many mills are operating at only 78% to 80% of capacity and growing numbers of workers are being laid off. In a recent report, Steel Analyst Robert Hageman of the Wall Street brokerage house of Kidder Peabody reckoned that steel shipments this year will fall to about 87 million tons, off 25% from last year. Though some steelmen have been talking up additional price rises...
Ophuls submitted an outline of his proposed film, along with a list of other "possible witnesses and interviewees." Albert Speer, Dr. Howard Levy and General Vo Nguyen Giap were on the list, as well as such prominent architects of American involvement as Robert McNamara and McGeorge Bundy. Ophuls stressed, however, that the lineup of people to be interviewed would have to depend on the budget and on whom would be available. The similarities between Nazi Germany and America in Viet Nam were, for Ophuls, "an open question-but one that had to be explored." He also insisted that the final...
...happened, the Wage and Price Council had already taken it upon itself to fire off a telegram to U.S. Steel's New York headquarters asking the company to explain the increases. Three days later, a covey of U.S. Steel executives led by Board Chairman Edgar B. Speer arrived in Washington. Although U.S. Steel had raised prices by 23% earlier this year, the officials insisted that the new increases were needed to help the company "catch up" with recent run-ups in the cost of coal, iron ore and other materials-all of which have added...
Council Director Albert E. Rees agreed that "part" of the increase was justified, but pointedly left it up to the company to do something about the rest. At a meeting in Philadelphia last week, Speer told Rees of his plan for an inch-back: a series of reductions that would have the effect of cutting the size of the original increase from 4.7% overall back to 4%, plus a promise to hold the price line for at least six months, barring "major unforeseen economic events...