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...most brainwashed people in the world. The Industrial Revolution has brought us to the brink of extinction," George Wald, Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus and Nobel laureate, said yesterday after entering the teach-in unannounced...
...Carr era ended at a tense emergency meeting in Lome, the sweltering capital of Togo. Though the All Africa Conference's board issued statements defending Carr, key churchmen finally concluded that he had brought the young ecumenical organization to the brink of disaster. The board put Carr on leave until May 1979, when his term officially expires. This week Carr becomes a research fellow at Harvard's Center for International Affairs, and in the next academic year a visiting lecturer at Harvard Divinity School. His interim replacement: Egyptian Coptic Layman Sarwat G. Shehata, 39, a quiet management expert...
...precisely because Begelman had rescued Columbia from the brink of bankruptcy and turned it into a moneymaker that its directors last December decided to reinstate him. A vocal dissenter had been Alan Hirschfield, president of Columbia's parent, Columbia Pictures Industries; the two men seemed formally reconciled last week, and Hirschfield spent the week in Hollywood talking with Begelman about future plans. But the Columbia directors were scheduled to meet again this week, and there was speculation that they might reconsider their decision, particularly since Columbia stock has fallen to 15% from 20% in December, before the affair burst into...
...crucial negotiations in progress with the International Monetary Fund, which has demanded an austerity program to check inflation and reduce trade deficits as a condition for $750 million in emergency loans to Portugal. Said Freitas do Amaral: "By the middle of '78 we would have been on the brink of bankruptcy with our national independence threatened. The C.D.S. could not take the responsibility for pushing the country into a situation like that...
...that Pan Am be chosen to open service on the potentially lucrative route from Dallas-Fort Worth to London. Its reason: Pan Am, which only in the past two years has begun to earn a profit after years of heavy losses that at one point drove it to the brink of bankruptcy, could not stand any more competition. Carter gave the route instead to Braniff, which has been prospering mightily; the President cited "foreign policy considerations" that, as is his privilege, he did not bother to explain...