Word: steels
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...lunch or dinner to exchange or offer ideas. The President is also in the habit of soliciting the views of trusted outsiders: longtime Presidential Adviser Bryce Harlow, former Congressman and Defense Secretary Melvin Laird, former Wisconsin Representative John Byrnes, former Pennsylvania Governor William Scranton and William Whyte, a U.S. Steel vice president and lobbyist who also plays golf with the President...
Alas, a greater revolutionizer was on its way. As the century changed, so did inventions, mores and wheels. The automobile ruthlessly honked the bike from the road. In the field of romance, it displaced its predecessor; enclosed in steel and glass, the young couple enjoyed a privacy that was denied them even in the parlor. The bicycle abruptly became an exiled device, to be used somewhere between kindergarten and acne...
...Interview: At the Boardroom of U.S. Steel...
...scene is the board room of the United States Steel Corp. in Pittsburgh, Pa., a few years ago. Seated at the table that usually accommodates the directors of the nation's 13th-largest corporation are four or five Harvard alumni. Seated way down at the other end is a high school senior, seeking admission to the College, about to begin his interview, a half-hour question-and-answer session that would leave almost any applicant a bit shaken...
...Harvard and Radcliffe admission officials do not believe that an interview should be a highstress situation and John P. Reardon '60, director of Harvard admissions, has ended the grilling of students at U.S. Steel. Both Schwalbe and Reardon said last week that they favor interviews with a friendly atmosphere that will give applicants a favorable impression of the school. The interview, they noted, may be the applicant's only personal contact with the College, and he should be allowed to come across as something more than a few pieces of paper and test scores...