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Only a portion of the list of illegal corporate contributors to Nixon's 1972 campaign has been made public. So far three companies-Goodyear Tire & Rubber, 3M and American Airlines-have been fined for unlawfully dipping into corporate funds for gifts to the President's re-election effort. Cox's investigators claimed that they were looking into possible violations by two dozen other firms and labor unions...
...pocket to a doctor who was working on a preparation to suppress high blood pressure; the drug turned into a steady though small seller and started Dart Industries' Riker Laboratories ethical-drug operation. But in 1970, he sold Riker Laboratories to the Minnesota Mining & Manufacturing Co. for 3M stock worth a handsome $150 million. Dart has since sold most of the stock for a profit-$10 million in 1972 alone...
...state harbors some of the nation's fastest-growing computer companies?Honeywell Inc., Control Data Corp., Univac?along with a diversity of such other corporations as 3M Co., General Mills Inc., Geo. A. Hormel & Co., Pillsbury Co., and Investors Diversified Services Inc., one of the world's largest mutual fund conglomerates. The University of Minnesota, whose alumni and faculty have included seven Nobel laureates, ranks among the nation's best. It helped to develop the Salk vaccine, open-heart surgery, blight-resistant wheat. The Mayo Clinic remains America's secular Lourdes. Minneapolis' Tyrone Guthrie Theater displays some of the most...
...have traveled this world over thoroughly," says Harry Heltzer, chairman and chief executive of the St. Paul-based 3M Co., "but I've never seen a place I would rather live. I can be home in 20 minutes and feed deer, ducks and geese in my yard." Indeed, one personnel problem in the large corporations is that executives transferred to Minnesota are so reluctant to leave that they would often rather quit and find other work there than accept a retransfer. Steve Scarborough, a young Honeywell engineer who turned down a promotion two years ago because it would have meant...
...offered to invest $1,000,000 in face-lifting the downtown district of Rochester. The IBM plant there has given employees leaves of absence, with pay, to work on public interest projects. At the Mayo medical complex itself, now in the midst of its largest expansion in history, Honeywell, 3M Co. and other big state-based corporations have been major contributors to a $100 million fund