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...pronounced drop in the University's reserve balances, it becomes painfully evident that these weak departments must either raise more endowment for themselves or else cut their budgets. Should the first alternative fail, Harvard might someday have to decide that such things as "athletics for all," and the third biggest library in the country are shows too big to maintain...
America, the biggest U.S. private bank. Last week, Transamerica made a move on the second point...
...Western Hemisphere's biggest railroad* got a new boss last week. To succeed retiring President Robert C. Vaughan, the government-owned Canadian National Railway Co. picked Donald Gordon, 47, deputy governor of the Bank of Canada, whose only direct connection with railroading had been as a passenger...
...Since C.N.R. was formed in 1923 out of the ruins of five separate lines, it has grown into a $2.4 billion empire which operates 24,178 miles of main track, twelve hotels, three steamship lines, an airline (TransCanada) and a nationwide telegraph service. It has become Canada's biggest employer (some 111,000). In recent years, C.N.R. has earned money on its operations, but, except for the war years, has seldom shown a net profit. Last year's earnings ($26.5 million) were not enough to meet even half the interest payments on C.N.R.'s longstanding debt...
Today Duke has the 14th largest university library in the U.S., the second biggest university hospital in the South, a first-rate university school of forestry, and law and divinity schools that are rapidly moving into top rank...