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...University received $18.1 million from its endowment funds during the last fiscal year, Paul C. Cabot '21, Treasurer of the College, has reported to the Board of Overseers. This gain represents a 5.3 per cent return on the book value of the endowment, the highest in at least the past five years...
Instead, United Steelworkers' President Dave McDonald asked that Ike abandon his objection to direct Government intervention, proposed that the President instruct his Taft-Hartley Board of Inquiry to recommend a strike settlement. If the Government would take that unprecedented step (not provided for under Taft-Hartley), McDonald pledged vaguely, the steelworkers would bargain "within the framework of the board's recommendations." U.S. Steel Corp.'s R. Conrad Cooper, chief negotiator for eleven major steel companies, promptly blasted McDonald's suggestion as "just one more attempt" by union leaders "to avoid their own great responsibilities by seeking...
...contrast between Secretary Gates and outgoing Secretary McElroy could hardly be greater. McElroy (who goes back this week, with no regrets, to a new Procter & Gamble job as board chairman at upwards of $285,000) is an attractive, extraverted salesman-impatient with details or lengthy briefings, a man who shrinks from offending a friend or customer, who agonizes over difficult decisions. In his 26 months as Defense Secretary, which began so dramatically only five days after the first Sputnik soared into history, McElroy has had a hit-or-miss record (TIME, June 22). As a salesman, succeeding rough-handed "Engine...
Illness prevented one of the two scheduled pianists from performing, with a resulting insecurity that will hopefully be rectified by this afternoon (along with a somewhat trigger-happy light board technician). Cecelia Hopkins played the flute obbligatos with assurance...
Harvard's Board of Overseers has now taken the position that its students should belong to or support any group advocating overthrow of the Constitution by force and violence...