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...certainly not a ship. But it is a nifty little method of getting the benefits of U.S.-built ships without the high cost. On order last week from the Hamburg yards of German Shipbuilder Willy Schlieker (TIME, Oct. 26) were the midsections of six vessels for Mobile's McLean Industries, Inc. With a booming business carrying highway trailer vans by sea, McLean decided to add six new vessels, each with a capacity of 476 vans, to his fleet of trailer ships. The problem was that if the vessels were built abroad they could not ship between domestic ports...
...McLean's solution is to play both ends against the middle. Schlieker will build only the midsections, which can then be towed across the Atlantic and enter the U.S. as "fabricated steel.'' McLean turns them into ships by simply buying old T-2 war-surplus tankers, hiring U.S. yards to graft the bows and sterns onto his German midsections, thus qualifying as "built in America." Total cost: less than $5,000,000 a vessel, a saving of 50% to 65%. So simple is the idea that other U.S. firms (e.g., American Ship Building) have ordered the midsections...
Films of some of the major revolutions of the 20th century will dramatize "The Anatomy of Revolution," which Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, will teach as an extension course this Spring over WGBH...
...Crane Brinton '19, McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History, supported Kennedy along with Galbraith and three others. Brinton framed the major issue of the times as: "orthodox or 'classical' economics, and what I'll call Keynesian or Galbraithian economics: . . . whether we are to let our present methods of production and distribution produce the kind of consumers' goods that annoy the intellectuals, or whether we will tamper politically so as to produce education, housing, hospitals, public transportation, which people ought to want...
Other officers, announced during the half of the Yale game to take office immediately, are: Assistant Managers, W. Bruce Shirk '62, of Kirkland House and Kansas City, Mo., Geoffrey B.S. Cavanagh '62, of Dunster House and Gloucester, Joseph F. McLean '62, of Dudley House and Dorchester, and John M. Flader '62, of Leverett House and Kohler...