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...dictated by the hard facts of economic life: the need for Western aid, investment and know-how, the failure of extreme socialism to salvage the hemorrhaging economies of Egypt and Iraq. Algeria, too, under Colonel Houari Boumedienne, has retreated from deposed Strongman Ben Bella's far-left bent. And when Ben Bella went, Nasser lost his only real revolutionary pal in the Arab world...
Once he is engaged by a customer bent on merger, the broker calls upon his pals, partners and researchers-and his own know-how-to draw up a list of companies that can at least be flirted with. Then he telephones or visits the top executives of those companies-doors are always open to the leading bankers-and discreetly sounds them out, never revealing the name of his client until the two firms agree to become serious. When the two begin active courting, the investment bankers act as chaperons, or sometimes referees, help to work out the terms...
...thin (few observers doubt that De Gaulle will run for a second term), but the history was laid on thick. Nov. 4 is the feast day of St. Charles Borromeo (1538-84), an Italian cardinal and church reformer possessed of a Gaullist profile, an imperious manner, and a bent for catechizing. Moreover, St. Charles, like his namesake, was once the target for an assassination attempt -by a disgruntled monk whose order he had attempted to control. The parallels were obvious; so were the concomitant moves De Gaulle was making in Europe last week...
...that the university will provide a pastoral, protective, quiet educational retreat for their offspring before the latter meet the cruel, cold world," he told the faculty recently, "but the present university-student generation does not look to me like a generation of lost and bewildered sheep; they seem hell-bent to take on not only the complexities of the university but also of the universe." The dissident students, he contends, "are not really running away from us. They are not proposing to expel the faculty. It is rather that they want the faculty to converse more with them about something...
Arthur M. Schlesinger Sr., Francis Lee Higginson Professor of History, emeritus, died Saturday in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital. A teacher at Harvard for thirty years, Schlesinger was a pioneering American social historian and a prominent intellectual figure among American liberals...