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...when John Mariotta, a diemaker, high school dropout, and the Manhattan-born son of Puerto Rican parents, invested $3,000 to start a small manufacturing company in a renovated brick garage in a desolate area of the South Bronx. Five years later Mariotta struck up a partnership with Fred Neuberger, a mechanical engineer who as a boy had escaped Nazi persecution in Eastern Europe. The firm, then known as Welbilt Electronics, struggled to survive, winning only a few small contracts...
...candidate for the position, and the house felt very strongly and endorsed her," said Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57. "I was very pleased...
Sticking intently to the one business it knows best, McDonald's has been able to stay clear of Wall Street's merger-and-restructuring mayhem. The single-minded outfit prefers as few distractions as possible from its imperatives of "cleaner, faster, hotter." Diversify? No way, said Chairman Fred Turner recently to a fellow executive. "We have 16,000 rest rooms," noted Turner. "As soon as those are all clean, we'll talk diversification." Considering McDonald's penchant for perfectionism, that time may be a long...
...microchips -- finely etched electronic devices that process thousands of bits of information per second -- to the burgeoning world of high tech. Semiconductors are now used in virtually every advanced technology, including the Cray supercomputers that are a key component of the Reagan Administration's Strategic Defense Initiative. Says C. Fred Bergsten, director of the Washington-based Institute for International Economics: "Practically everyone in the U.S. agrees that semiconductors is a critical industry and that it would be dangerous, both to the economy and to national security, to lose...
...Dean of the College L. Fred Jewett '57said, "You never know until the last day whenstudents arrive...