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...Irving Shapiro, a charter member, calls them the class of the '70s. They are the unique and rather brotherly band who became chief executives of some of America's largest corporations in the past decade, and by many measures they have changed the nation as much as did the clamorous '60s kids. These corporate chiefs are activists in society and politics, for they know that no company is an island; none can prosper for long if the country is unsound...
...quite a few leaders of the class of the '70s are about to make their valedictory. "We are all getting close to retirement age," says Shapiro, 63, who in 15 months has to leave the chairmanship of Du Pont, the chemicals colossus. "It will be a challenge for companies to produce the same kind of group in the 1980s...
...what a band they have been. In the inner circle is Shapiro, son of Lithuanian immigrants (Father was a pants presser, Mother a sweatshop garment worker), who got a law degree on loans from the University of Minnesota, and says, "I've always wanted to be sure that I didn't take more from the system than I was putting back." There is Shapiro's friend Reg Jones, a British-born intellectual, who has been similarly motivated to repay the society in which he climbed to become chairman of General Electric. And Citicorp's Walter Wriston...
...lawyer for tenants, Saul Shapiro, said the central issue in yesterday's seven-hour hearing, which will resume Monday morning, was whether converting the four-story apartment to office use would worsen the city's housing shortage...
...very tight rental market, and it is getting increasingly tighter," Shapiro said. "The removal of these 16 units would be a further aggravation to that situation," he added...