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Lyet calls for new thinking, and not only from those provincial business types. Government trustbusters, he feels, should consider permitting U.S. companies to set up international consortiums to compete against similar groupings that are allowed by foreign governments. Unions should not buck investments abroad by multinational corporations but should recognize that they enhance exports-and create jobs domestically-because the new foreign branches inevitably demand large amounts of parts from...
During the McCarthy era, Buck demonstrated "qualities of statesmanship" in his defense of Harvard's academic freedom from Congressional attacks which he believed infringed upon the University's constitutional rights, John van Vleck, Hollis Professor of Mathematics and Natural Philosophy Emeritus, and a friend of Buck's for a half-century, said yesterday...
...director of Widener Library from 1955 to 1964, Buck improved its administrative efficiency, increased its size by 1.4 million volumes, and initiated 14 new projects, including plans for the establishment of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library...
...Buck's lasting contribution to library science was his emphasis on the importance of libraries to teaching and research. Edwin E. Williams, associate University librarian, said yesterday...
...Buck is survived by his wife, Sally Betts Buck, and two sisters, both living in California