Arthur J. Fox Jr.

摘要

Arthur J. Fox Jr., a civil engineer who parlayed early construction ways and on World War Ⅱ battlefields to build-as its 2 5-year editor-in-chief-trade journal Engineering News-Record into the bible of a now $8.5-trillion global construction industry, died on May 11 in Rockville, Md. He was 92. The cause was pancreatic cancer, according to his daughter, Jane A. Fox. A 40-year ENR veteran, Art Fox set high standards for exacting news coverage of subjects and events often highly technical and fast-breaking and, on the editorial page, took positions, often controversial, on industry happenings and social issues. He defended the industry. For example, one editorial was critical of an expose book about giant contractor Bechtel, proffering that "having friends in high places is no sin" (ENR 4/21/88 p. 82). Or he chastised the industry, as in a 1970 editorial that tied a poor civil-rights record and government "intervention" to contractors' inability to extricate themselves "from the closed-shop hiring-hall box they're in" (ENR 2/12/70 p. 80).