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...Ernest Tener Weir, 81, last steelman still running a major steel company he founded, stepped down as chairman and chief executive of National Steel Corp. because of ill health. At 15 Weir started working for a Pittsburgh wire company for $3 a week, at 30 acquired a broken-down West Virginia tin-plate mill and built it into the nation's sixth largest steel company, with 1956 assets of $675 million and $664 million of sales. In his career Weir fought the Government, unions and fellow steelmakers; his is the only sizable steel company not organized by the United...
...Union Carbide's President Morse G. Dial, American Tobacco's President Paul M. Hahn, Arnico Steel's President W. W. Sebald, National Steel's Chairman Ernest Tener Weir and President Thomas E. Millsop...
...Across Penobscot Bay (opposite) he shows "what it feels like on a beautiful day to look from an island across the bay. What interested me was that the space of the trees in the foreground seems to embrace the space of the bay." The starting point for The Weir and the Island, now owned by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum, was the view Kienbusch got of a weir made of burnt spruce, set in a tideway. "The spruce boughs were rust-colored," he recalls. "They stood up out of the water like wild orange branches in a blue field...
What can the world expect during the next century as its population increases and its resources diminish? Last week in Manhattan three Caltech experts, Geochemist Harrison Brown, Biologist James F. Bonner and Psychologist John R. Weir, who have been studying this problem as a team, were optimistic-with qualifications...
Both Brown and Bonner qualify their optimism by pointing out the enormous amount of research, development and construction that must be invested in each new method of winning energy, minerals or food. To accomplish these things, says Psychologist Weir, the world will have to have peace, and free communication. I will also need more and better-trained scientists and engineers, for the future of the crowded earth will be determined by the quality of its technology...