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...Plaintive Plea. By week's end, the parade of pro and con witnesses had some Senators bobbing their heads from side to side faster than spectators at a Wimbledon tennis match. Admitting his confusion, California Republican Thomas Kuchel addressed a plaintive appeal to Nobel Prizewinning Chemist Dr. Willard Libby...
...sure, his Secretary of Labor, Willard Wirtz, has labored patiently to bring about a settlement. Last week he even got the five operating railroad unions to agree, for the first time, to "consider" the "principle of arbitration" as a means of settling key issues. The unions decided that they still didn't care at all for the principle. Negotiations broke down...
...view of the stockholder's welfare. If they determine that the stockholder could use the money to more advantage than the company could -a determination based on tax rates, current interest rates and cash flow-the checks go out. But many companies believe, with Rockwell Manufacturing Co. Chairman Willard F. Rockwell, that "we're doing our stockholders a favor by not giving them too much." Money put instead to needed expansion or modernization may not only save a company the 5% or 6% in interest charges that it would otherwise have to pay to borrow the money...
...July, just two days short of Willard R. Gilliland's 39th birthday, when he left his home in Peters Township, south of Pittsburgh, to take his mother-in-law, his wife June and their five children to visit his mother in Pittsburgh, 15 miles away. The family had a typical three-generation reunion. When it was over, June Gilliland left first in one car to take her mother home. Willard Gilliland gave the kids another hour for ice cream and cake, then piled them into his new Volkswagen Microbus. He never got home. Only four miles short...
...Fellows. Other Seniors include Crane Brinton, Chairman of the Society and McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History; Paul M. Doty, professor of Chemistry; Wassily W. Leontief, Henry Lee professor of Economics; Harry T. Levin, Irving Babbitt Professor of Comparative Literature; Edward M. Purcell, Gerhard Gade University Professor; and Willard V. Quine, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy...