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However, Boston College allows Southwestern to recruit through its career planning office, and this year 26 B.C. students are planning to join. John Steel, director of career planning at B.C., says. Steel explains that the company has a fine reputation but adds that problems with student managers sometimes develop. With the high turnover of personnel. Steel says relationships with recruiters differ each year, adding that last year Southwestern wasn't sponsored because recruiters didn't stay in contact with the school. Galloway says the recruiters' independent relationship to Southwestern contributes to the problems because there is no one overseer...
...discovered that the Coast Guard's warning had been apt. The wire ladder was there, all right, but the backwash was violent. Transporting gear, including 50 boxes of electronic equipment, three rotatable-beam antennas, two gasoline-powered generators weighing about 150 Ibs. each, plus assorted 20-ft.-long steel pipes, bamboo poles, 250-lb. gasoline drums, kegs of drinking water and a week's food supply, looked impossible. Just getting to the swaying ladder seemed daunting enough...
...broken leg. Gertsch, 38, felt what he thought was a cramp starting after seven miles. But he was determined to finish, and so he pounded on for 19 more miles before collapsing at the finish line. Doctors, who later set his right femur with a steel rod, theorized that his powerful thigh muscle had acted as a splint until he finally relaxed at race...
Finally, a 3,000-lb. wrecking ball was brought in. To attack those sturdy pillars, it was fitted out with protruding steel blades. It succeeded in knocking down two walls but lost its blades and snapped a cable in the process. At one point, falling debris pushed the ball into the crane boom and banged up the cab. The Mobile Press headline: HERO HOUSE CAPITULATES TO STEEL BALL. But not without a fight...
Despite many initial doubts, the wom en almost universally praised the commit tee after the first meeting. Says Mary Farrar, 41, president and founder of Systems Erectors, a structural steel contractor in Kansas City: "I had no women professional associations whatsoever. I simply didn't know there were other women out there at my level with the same managerial problems." Said Diane John son, 48, executive vice president of Houston's Central Pipe & Supply Co. (1981 sales: $82 million): "Most of us are not joiners. But we decided to risk it." Added Lane Nemeth, 35, president of Discovery...