Word: superiorities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...them just to hold their jobs. Said Paul Hartig, former general manager of G.E.'s insulator department: "It was a way of life. It was part of the job." G.E.'s George R. Fink, former sales manager of the medium-voltage department, who was ordered by his superior to meet with the competitors, went over his boss's head to complain and was told "it was necessary I talk to competitors about prices. I was against doing anything illegal and I still am. If I didn't do it, I felt I would be removed...
...risks involved," said G.E.'s Gezon. "It had been clearly spelled out that for any employee who did participate in such competitive meetings, there was no defense. The company would be compelled to discharge or demote him, and also face Government action. That was pointed out by every superior I ever had." Many of the conspirators have in fact been dismissed or demoted-Gezon was demoted-since the Government began its investigation, and G.E. has fired all 16 of its convicted executives...
...like skywriting. The effort is high-flown, and the blurs are dramatically visible. Remarkably blurless are two new translations: one, a tragedy, Racine's Phaedra, done by Robert Lowell; the other, a comedy, Beaumarchais' Figaro's Marriage, by Jacques Barzun. Coming after Robert Fitzgerald's superior modern rendering of The Odyssey (TIME, April 14), they suggest a boomlet in good translations...
...Bowdoin coach, Nels Corey, didn't seem overly dismayed. He noted that the Polar Bears had only three days of outdoor practice prior to the game, and that he welcomed the chance to have his players encounter a superior unit...
...varsity boat was clearly superior to its opponents, slowly pulling out on them throughout the race, although rowing about two strokes lower. Unexpectedly, it was an underrated Bruin crew which stayed closer to the Crimson shell. Syracuse trailed behind until a late sprint nearly brought it up to the tiring Bruins, who were rowing 39 for the last quarter mile...