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...companies considered them valuable enough, in balance-sheet terms, to justify annual expenditures of $200 each or more for checkups. These screenings were performed by such organizations as New York City's Executive Health Examiners, serving the top brass of 400 companies, or the Greenbrier Clinic at White Sulphur Springs, W. Va., and could take several days...
...court action, Carbide refused to supply the government with any information regarding its pollution. Then last April, HEW Secretary Elliot L. Richardson '41 ordered pollution at the plant reduced at a fixed schedule. Carbide ignored the first deadline last September, saying that it was impossible to obtain a low-sulphur fuel necessary to meet it, but asked the government for $5,500,000 for anti-pollution research...
...Finally, on January 8 of this year, when William D. Ruckleshaus, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, again threatened court action, Carbide announced that it could find the low-sulphur fuel after all, but that meeting the further deadlines would require the 625-worker layoff...
...Pacific. A row of small rustic bungalows that house Big Sur's 60 "seminarians"-its own name for clients-is dominated by the main lodge. Other emotions, some of them hostile to Esalen, have been aroused by the institute's most notorious and overpublicized attraction: its hot sulphur baths, where seminarians of both sexes soak blissfully in the nude during breaks in their sessions...
...based maker of mobile homes that is headed by young Millionaire Arthur Decio (TIME, July 4). Its return on invested capital was 40.9%, a rate high enough to top Avon Products, which earned 35.8%. In terms of earnings calculated as a percentage of sales, the leader was Texas Gulf Sulphur, which earned 25.7%, despite a 10% sales decline...