Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this is a niggling comment. Your suggestions were good ones and I hope they will stimulate greater interest in the 1965 Combined Charities Drive. Charles M. Stern'65 Vice Chairman for Research 1964 Combined Charities Committee
There will never be enough orchestras to suit Conductor Leopold Stolcowslci, 82. And plans to tear down Carnegie Hall when the New York Philharmonic moved out distressed him because that meant one less stage big enough to seat 96 musicians. So he, Violinist Isaac Stern and some others blew the whistle on the wreckers, and Stokowski founded the American Symphony as Carnegie's new tenant-whereupon the U.S. Government designated the hall a national landmark. Interior Secretary Stewart Udall, 44, went up to affix the plaque on the wall outside, but Stokowski took the Arizonian up to the podium...
Perfect Missile. A stern word from a boss started the whole Z.D. idea three years ago. At Martin Marietta's plant in Orlando, Fla., a quality control engineer named Philip Crosby had succeeded in cutting defects on Pershing missiles to half the acceptable level-but his boss complained that that was still too high. Incensed at first, Crosby soon began to agree: "If management tolerates a low standard, people work to that standard. Well, why not a no-defects job?" He persuaded workers in his department to sign no-defects pledges, soon surprised the Army by delivering a Pershing...
Last week the activist economists in Britain's Labor government (see THE WORLD) put through a stern pound-protecting program. A new 15% tax on manufactured imports will have the effect of doubling tariffs, adding 28? to a bottle of sherry and $225 to a Volkswagen. The government also started to "re-examine" the joint Anglo-French projects to build the Channel tunnel and the Concorde supersonic jet transport (the French feel certain that Britain will try to pull out of the Concorde). On top of that, the government announced a tax kickback for exporters, amounting...
...last year's list. We want Harvard and Radcliffe students to know that we are aware of the arbitrary nature of our decision, and that we therefore do not claim that any charity not recommended by us is untrustworthy. Benjamin F. Stapleton, III '65 Chairman, HRCC Drive Charles M. Stern '65 Vice Chairman for Research