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Siemens is Germany's largest private employer, with 207.000 workers at home and another 28,000 around the world. But it is more than it seems to be. The Siemens reach extends from the Arctic. where its diesel engines drive icebreakers, to Saudi Arabia, where its engineers are setting up a huge communications network. Moscow's Bolshoi Theater is lighted by a Siemens electrical system: the phone calls of Indonesia's President Sukarno go through Siemens switchboards...
...elms. Born into the Establishment and determined to stay there, Stanhope found the leisure to write poetry and critical appreciations of Corneille by marrying wealthy Adelaide ("A good wife. An invaluable partner. Such a relief when she died"). Stanhope was not without weapons: his unflappable poise was buttressed by arctic sarcasm that could condescend to Curtal as the "idol of mediocrity" who picked up other men's ideas as a robin does crumbs...
Norway's application closed the books on prospective candidates for full membership in the economic community-not counting the countries clamoring for associate membership, notably Austria and other neutrals (see below). Within three years or less the Six will be Ten, stretching from the Arctic Circle to the Mediterranean, from the Alps to the Atlantic...
...qualified students to earn M.A.s along with B.A.s at the end of four years. As it is, Yale abounds with enterprising young scholars. Not untypical is Senior Nicholas J. Gubser, 23, founder of the Anthropology Club, who recently spent a 15-month leave living with an Eskimo family in Arctic Alaska. Last week he finished a paper on "the intellectual ecology of the Nunamiut Eskimos." Dean of Admissions Arthur Howe Jr. does not think such scholarship comes at a cost to other interests, and calms blue Old Blues with word that "the present Yale football team would beat any Yale...
...Harvard Mountaineering Club will hear a lecture by Dr. Walter A. Wood of the Arctic Institute of North America Wednesday not yesterday as reported. Dr. Wood will also show a movie of climbing activities in the St. Elias Range in the Canadian Yukon. The movie, which will be shown at 8 p.m. in the Map Room of the Faculty Club, is open to the public...