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...largest, most exciting, and most frequently criticized of local agencies is that amalgam of student-run enterprises, the Harvard Student Agencies...
Geneen himself shuns the conglomerate tag, prefers to call ITT "a unified-management, multiproduct company"-a term that, for some reason, he considers far tidier. Whatever the label, Geneen's ITT has become a hearty concoction. A huge amalgam of some 150 affiliated companies in 57 countries, it hums with new purpose in its traditional field: the manufacture of communications equipment around the world. At the same time, ITT's 204,000 employees are pushing into fresh territory. Backed by an annual research-and-development budget of $220 million, ITT scientists are at work on such sophisticated projects...
...American institution whose roots go back to the stagecoach. In its present form, REA's history dates to 1917 when, to speed up transportation to the World War I effort, the Government forced the seven major express companies to merge. In 1929 the transportation assets of the amalgam were purchased by the railroads and designated Railway Express Agency. After World War II, the combination began to fail, and in 1959 there was even talk of nationalizing it. Giving in to pressure from Washington, the railroads in 1961 changed Railway Express from a cooperative to a profit-and-loss company...
Told in vignettes as agile and fragile as haiku, She and He lacks the substance of genuine tragedy, but Director Susumu Hani, a onetime documentary film maker, has given the picture a sense of on-location authenticity that transcends its simplistic symbolism. His casting, an amalgam of amateur and professional actors, is flawless. The blind girl literally lives her role; she is truly blind. The ragpicker (Sachiko Hidari), a painter who never acted before, is as narrow as a rice stalk, so emaciated that he sometimes seems to have two profiles in search of a face. But Hidari radiates...
FALSTAFF. Actor Orson Welles has caught more of the dark than the light side of Shakespeare's pun-prone, fun-filled roisterer, and Director Welles's amalgam of five of the historical plays is often stonily dull, despite some sparks of genius...