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...Colman M. Mockler Jr. '52, Lewis McA. Branscomb and George C. Dillon '43 are only three of at least six top Harvard directors--two of the seven Corporation members and four of the 30 Overseers--who serve as executives or directors of companies which do business in the apartheid state...
Lewis McA. Branscomb (Ph.D '50) who will sit on the board of Overseers until 1990, works for one South Africa-related company and sits on the boards of two others--all of which Harvard owns stock in. He is a vice president and the chief scientist at IBM, which has, according to IBM spokesman Michael Dutton, 1914 employees--including 286 Blacks--at its South African sales and service offices. IBM's South African business represented less than 1 percent of its 1984 revenues of $45.9 billion. Dutton says. He says no IBM equipment, "to our knowledge," is used...
...Overseer Branscomb also sits on the boards of two South Africa-related companies: General Foods Corp. of White Plains, N.Y. and Mobil Corp. of New York City. Both of those are also represented in Harvard's stock portfolio...
...automation. The key to the so-called paperless office will be computerized networks that shuttle messages between computer terminals, telephones and other office equipment. All can then be consolidated into a "work station" atop a desk. "The world of the future is centered on powerful work stations," says Lewis Branscomb, IBM's chief scientist...
Speakers will include former Democratic Senator from Wyoming Gale W. McGee, Lewis M. Branscomb, vice president and chief scientist of IBM, and John T. Dunlop, Lamont University Professor and former Secretary of Labor, Oettinger's secretary said...