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...Allan Parker, also a second year student, replied that the national issues raised by the referendum were beyond the scope of the Council's work. He said that a poll would be an equally vaild form of student expression...
Catharsis School. Such shreds of research are useful, but they reveal little of the overall impact of TV on Video Boy's attitudes and behavior. The effect may be profound. Allan Leitman of Boston's Educational Development Center warns that TV is creating a generation of spectators. "Kids come into school today," he explains, "and they wait for people to tell them things. Without handling frogs or flying a kite, they lead less of a life. We're moving along in a mold that will produce people I can't even imagine." Many parents, shuddering...
...59th Minute. Though the President labeled his restrictions temporary, many businessmen were openly skeptical. Such measures, observed former President Allan Sproul of the New York Federal Reserve Bank, "are always presented as being temporary. The war is forcing us into actions which are undesirable-at the 59th minute of the eleventh hour." Former Commerce Secretary John Connor, now president of Allied Chemicals, said the investment crackdown "really amounts to wartime controls...
...businessmen could expect to see, or survive, in a lifetime. In 17 years with the huge holding company, which controls railroad, mutual funds, real estate and other interests worth more than $7 billion, Ireland has been a top tactician, first for the late Robert Young, more recently for Financier Allan P. Kirby, in seemingly endless court squabbles with stockholders, in bitter battles for the control of railroads (the New York Central, the Missouri Pacific) and in savage proxy fights for Alleghany itself (with the Murchison brothers of Dallas...
...million) but is also one of the biggest single stockholders in ITT, has been incapacitated since a stroke last spring. To succeed him as chairman, Alleghany's board chose Son Fred Kirby, 48, who had been an executive vice president. There was no upheaval, Fred and Younger Brother Allan Jr., a vice president, urged Ireland to stay on, but Ireland clearly felt that much of the ginger had departed with Allan Sr. He confided a desire to move on to Friend Hal Geneen last fall. Replied Geneen, who knows a good acquisition when he sees...