Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other members are concentrators in the department; the HPC audit subcommittee chairman oversees the program. Since the administrative structure and general attitude of departments vary widely, a new audit has few precedents to rely on. And the time-consuming work involved must come from students who themselves have no stake in the HPC. As a result, only six audits have been completed (Government, Applied Math, Chemistry, English, Biology, and Classics), with varying degrees of success...
Just two days before, "Duke" Wayne had celebrated his 60th birthday at the premiere of his 162nd picture, The War Wagon, in Arlington, Texas. Now he was working at Benning without rest through the long Memorial Day weekend to stake out No. 163, The Green Berets. He would prefer to shoot the film in Viet Nam. "But if you start shooting blanks over there," he says, "they might start shooting back." Duke knows. Last year, while touring a Marine encampment for the U.S.O., he heard the crack of Viet Cong snipers' rifles. "They were so far away," sniffs Wayne...
Beset by a plethora of problems, the nation's steelmakers are pinning their hopes for the future on far-reaching technological advances. Accordingly, U.S. Steel, the industry leader, is now in the midst of a threeyear, $1.8 billion program to modernize its plants. With this stake in new production methods, U.S. Steel last week chose an up-from-the-mills operations man as its next president. He is Pittsburgh-born Edwin H. Gott, 59, the company's executive vice president for production, who on July 1 will become No. 2 man behind Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Roger...
...World Stake. "There are practical, economic and political problems to be resolved," says I.M.C. President Nelson C. White. But no such problems are likely to block the vast effort. Though a European partner has yet to be found, Madrid and I.M.C. are not worried about raising the $160 million needed as an initial investment. The long-term investment to bring production up from 3,000,000 tons of phosphate in 1970 to 10 to 12 million tons by 1976 could go as high as half a billion dollars. By that time the Sahara phosphate venture should be a going operation...
...bids are being taken for a $30 million conveyor belt to carry ore to the sea. If all goes well, within a decade the lonely oasis could become the source of enough fertilizer to help feed 68 million people a year. Thus the whole world has a stake in the project's success...