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(FORTUNE Magazine) – Prodded by FORTUNE (November 9, 1987), among others, for graduating too many investment bankers and not enough manufacturing experts, Harvard business school is taking action. In the fall the school will admit fewer number crunchers than last September, even though applications from Wall Street types were way up. It also hired Steven Wheelwright from Stanford to bolster the school's program in manufacturing and technology management. The hope is that his course will be popular enough to inspire a new generation of captains of industry. -- One million more Americans will be taking vacations this summer than last. The U.S. Travel Data Center predicts that 5% more of these 113 million vacationers will head for cities than beaches and stay an average of six nights, the same as last year.