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Germany, whose businessmen are rapidly becoming enthusiastic investors in the U.S. For years a kind of national taboo in Germany against "exporting jobs" limited U.S. ventures to capital-intensive firms like chemical-making Bayer or Hoechst. Now a conviction is spreading that, as one leading German banker put it, "our domestic market is saturated, and our population is overaged and shrinking. It's just prudent business that if you have a market, your production should follow." With that argument, Volkswagen's boss, Toni Schmucker, persuaded German unions and political leaders that an American plant was vital...
Although Yale won the first team title, Louis P. Bayer Jr. from Princeton emerged as the nation's first individual intercollegiate champion. The next year, Harvard dethroned the Elis while the Crimson's J.F. Curtis was medalist. The third year the three schools met Reid finished first, as each college had then had a national champion. Percy Pyne Jr. won for Princeton in 1900, H. Lindsley took the title for Harvard in 1901, and Yale's Charles Hitchcock...
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Rolling Heads. Last week wildcat strikes spread from Portuguese firms to several American and other foreign companies that built factories in Portugal to employ cheap labor. Workers struck the Timex and Bayer corporations, demanding more than 50% raises. All four Firestone tire plants were shut down by discontented employees, while ITT executives bargained anxiously to head off a walkout at the semiconductor plant in Cascais. "The workers are looking for heads to roll," said a nervous Dutch director of ITT. "The situation could erupt at any moment...
...cultural pressures, women do not go on to get high degrees as often as men. Yet the latest and most extensive study of sex discrimination, done by Helen Astin and Alan E. Bayer from the Council on Higher Education, shows that 17 per cent of the difference in rank and salary between men and women could only result from sex discrimination...