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Many more Bolivian parents would do the same if they could afford it. In the past two years, enrollment at San Andres University in the Bolivian capital of La Paz has jumped from 2,700 to 6,400. The government, which fears San Andres as a hotbed of opposition, gives the school little money, and last year actually refused a United Nations grant. In Bolivia, the university presidents and deans are elected by councils divided fifty-fifty between students and professors. Communists have grabbed control of three universities outside La Paz and are reaching for the rest...
...small machine shop when Owner Jujiro Matsuda, inspired by the sight of delivery boys' three-wheeled bikes, decided in the early 1930s to make a three-wheeled truck. His inexpensive Mazda truck was a boon to small businessmen who had neither the money nor the volume to afford bigger, four-wheeled trucks. Toyo Kogyo switched to making rifles and airplane parts in World War II, escaped serious damage from Hiroshima's Abomb, which fell only three miles from its plant, because of freakish blast waves. The firm was too small to attract the attention of U.S. trustbusters...
...Gaulle's most prominent foe. ex-Premier Georges Bidault, now a ranking S.A.O. chieftain, was as publicly defiant as ever. He could afford to be, for he was now holed up in southern Germany, where, after a nervous brushoff by Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, he sought political asylum from the state of Bavaria. Bathed in publicity and surrounded by police, he obviously was not doing his resistance organization much concrete good in a distant German villa...
...large company can avoid becoming specialized," says onetime Ford Executive William Porch, now vice president of Detroit's Fenestra Inc., a maker of building products. In small companies, which usually cannot afford a broad spectrum of specialists, young executives often work simultaneously in marketing, advertising and accounting, sometimes carry out complex negotiations involving labor contracts, mergers and loans. Small companies promote the idea of sharing an expanding future, and are more apt to offer their executives stock options. Some are also beginning to pay higher salaries than many larger companies...
...were fearful that it would overtax already swarming Grand Central Station. Argued Yale Professor Vincent Scully: "Except for brute expediency, it shouldn't be there at all." It was suggested that the site be used for a park instead. Wolfson agreed, but added conclusively: ''Who can afford to dedicate a $20 million plot to a park...