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...number of concentrators to be allowed into each Department. The idea of the new plan was to make sure no discipline's tutorial staff was overstrained. President Conant recommended the establishment of several "roving" professorships in his Annual report and urged the abolition of the Latin requirement for the Bachelor of Arts degree...
European finance. Jacob, 70, a reticent bachelor, stays in Stockholm to mind the home office, while robust and gregarious Marcus, 63, jets around the world to check on Wallenberg projects and find new investment opportunities. Though they hold the chairmanship of 27 companies, the brothers prefer to own no more than 5% or 10% of any company. They really do not need more, for most Swedish companies are only too ready to submit to Wallenberg management; they know that it means expert guidance and money for expansion. Says Marcus coolly: "It so happens that the companies we have been concerned...
Died. Fintan Patrick Walsh, 67, president of New Zealand's Federation of Labor, a craggy bachelor who started as an organizer for the Seaman's Union, strode on to become unquestioned kingpin of New Zealand labor and one of his country's most important men, bitterly resisting all efforts by the nation's farmers (of which he was one of the biggest in the dairy field) to capture an increased share of government benefits at the expense of labor; of a heart attack; in Wellington...
...cash), the oppressive Sultan in 1841 made him Rajah of Sarawak. Indifferent to crocodiles, boa constrictors and poisoned arrows, the White Rajah lived only for his handsome, amiable people. In 1848 he was knighted by Her Britannic Majesty, and in 1864 Britain recognized his raj. He died a bachelor in 1868 and was succeeded by his nephew Charles, who ruled for 50 years. Ranee Pan. The rajah who brought Sarawak into the modern world was Charles Brooke's son, who took over in 1917. In the more humdrum world of the 20th century, witty, Cambridge-educated Sir Charles Vyner...
...long struggle against France. But at the conference table. Nasser found Ben Bella to be no fawning disciple. Cool, tough and independent, the Algerians appeared more interested in their own revolution than in more grandiose schemes. Ten months after independence. Algeria's 46-year-old bachelor Premier is busy consolidating personalized control over his restive land. Last month he eliminated his most dangerous rival, Old Revolutionary Comrade Mohammed Khider, by forcing him out as secretary-general of Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front. Ben Bella took over the party post himself. Also. Ben Bella is implanting...