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...openers, the company staged its pièce de résistance, a robust rendering of Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet, followed by a lavish, streamlined Swan Lake featuring nothing less than the reigning tandem of Margot Fonteyn and Rudolf Nureyev, who had volunteered their services and spent one week of intensive rehearsals mastering the myriad refinements of Cranko's interpretation. But the creation that stirred the most frenetic response from the crowd was the première of a handsomely preened and plumed production of Stravinsky's Fire Bird, grounded in the Fokine tradition but soaring...
...Rare Tandem. Some business leaders believe that the U.S. may be able to moderate the cycle well enough to avoid sharp recessions altogether. That would take intelligent Government policy, economic sophistication, and some luck-all of which the U.S. economy has enjoyed in recent months. Both Government and business, working in rare tandem, have shown an increasing ability to keep the economy rising. Several economists call the current recovery "the managed expansion...
...people. One of the big worries of labor leaders and economists has been that automation gains might enable a strong economic advance-like the present one-to surge forward without creating any new jobs. Last week that worry was at least partially dispelled by two new statistics operating in tandem...
Bosses in Tandem. J. & L. has had its share of hard times. The company emerged from World War II with facilities that a shortsighted management had allowed to fall into desperate disrepair. The long, slow rebuilding process started by Admiral Ben Moreell in 1947 gathered momentum when Avery Comfort Adams, a supersalesman drafted from Pittsburgh Steel, took over in 1957. Shortly before his death, Adams retired last year; since then, Jones & Laughlin has operated under two bosses working in tandem. President William Johnston Stephens, 57, an outgoing salesman type like Adams, runs the day-to-day operations. Chairman Charles Milton...
...came to Goodyear as a part-time clerk when he was 17 and began taking over active management under Litchfield 19 years ago. A solidly built, balding man with unfailing memory and considerable charm, Thomas is responsible for Goodyear's modern diversified look, runs the company in tandem with President Russell De Young, 54, an up-from-the-ranks production expert who is heir apparent. "It was like getting the first olive out of the bottle," says Thomas. "Doing research on tires, we found a better way to make a tire rim. We made tires for planes...