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...single goal: to finance as much Southern growth as possible with Southern money. Wachovia has the fastest-growing mortgage department and the largest auto-loan operations in the South. It keeps 20 officials on the road to promote business opportunities in North Carolina, has a top official in each branch whose job is to lure new industry. "Our future is dependent on this state and this area," says Watlington, "so it behooves us to build...
Died. Jan Carl Van Panthaleon Bar on Eck, 84, founder and former president (1923-36) of Shell Union Oil Co., U.S. branch of the vast Royal Dutch/ Shell complex, a Dutch nobleman's son who in 1911 was sent across the Atlantic to investigate the possibilities for a foreign company in a land already rich in oil, tapped enough Stateside wells and strung enough competitive gas stations across the continent to make Shell a giant of U.S. industry (it now ranks seventh in oil, 15th among all U.S. companies); of lung cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif...
...lead article, "Free Student News," is a potpoun of student gripes from colleges all over the country. A teacher at Adelphi University in Garden City, N.Y., who traveled to Cuba last summer, has been fired by the "rich, conformist businessmen on its board of trustees." The New York branch of the May Second Movement has been subjected to "attempted intimidation" and "iron-fisted procedure" at the hands of a New York Grand Jury which subpoenaed several of its members in connection with the Harlem riots last summer...
Twenty-five members of a local branch the NAACP picketed the Brattle Street Theatre last night to protest the showing of D. W. Griffith's classic moving film Birth of a Nation...
George Roberts, President of the South Middlesex Branch of NAACP, explained yesterday that his organization's regional office had protested showings of the picture in all parts of the country for several years. "We object to the way the movie depicts us," Roberts said, "and we hope to persuade people...