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...their conversion into centers of industrial activity. "The professors." he concludes, "are less interested in teaching students than in yanking the levers of their new combines so that these machines will grow bigger and go faster. The university has in large part been reduced to serving as a banker broker for the professors' outside interests. The charming elitism of the professors has long since given way to the greed of social and political scientists whose manipulative theories aim only at political power." The body of The Closed Corporation seeks to document this claim...
...past six years, Pappas has lived in Greece, visiting the U.S. for holidays and Republican campaigns. His only son Charles, 33, is an investment broker in Boston. In Athens, Tom Pappas plots his moves in an office overlooking Athens' Constitution Square. Athenians commonly believe the many legends about him-that he told his friend "Dick" to pick Agnew, that he is the CIA chief in Greece. As he moves through the streets of Athens, perpetually patting children's heads and squeezing hands, people often stop him to ask favors, like securing the release of political prisoners. Pappas helps...
...discovery, and about half of her audience consists of regulars who pay the $2.50 tab to make a myth a week. Even though he knew none of the other performers at one recent myth, a city planner said: "I had no feeling of alienation or strangeness." A real estate broker commented: "It's a new look at life, which we sorely need. Great!" Halprin herself says that for some people myths are "simply fun, for some a bore, for some extraordinarily sensual, for some a happening, for some a kind of atavistic tribal reawakening...
...that while there was joy in Saigon over Lodge's nomination, there was also "stealthy satisfaction among Washington doves." If Nixon were preparing to cut U.S. losses in Viet Nam and settle for less than Lyndon Johnson was willing to concede, she argued, Lodge would be the ideal broker. His past credentials as an unbending anti-Communist would help convince American opinion that the U.S. was making the best possible deal...
...survival." Though it accounts for only 1.3% of all U.S. stock transactions, the P-B-W is the third largest of the nation's nine regional securities markets, after the Midwest and Pacific Coast exchanges. More than three-quarters of its annual 45-million-share volume comes from brokers outside Philadelphia. Most of that business involves stocks listed on the big New York exchanges. Says Wetherill: "No broker would do business with us when he could save his customer the 50 a share on the other regional exchanges...