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DIED. Linden Forbes Sampson Burnham, 62, President of Guyana and authoritarian ruler of his Caribbean-rim nation (pop. 800,000) since two years before independence in 1966; during an operation for a throat ailment; in Georgetown, Guyana. Folksy and sharp-witted, with a flair for oratory, he won the 1964 election by playing on tensions between ethnic Indians and blacks and on U.S. and British fears of Marxist Cheddi Jagan, the first pre-independence Premier. Thereafter he blended leftist rhetoric, aggressive nonalignment and a socialist policy that professed economic self-sufficiency but led, partly because of depressed commodity prices...
...battle will depend on winning the confidence of institutional investors like pension funds, which hold more than 60% of CBS stock. Nonetheless, the drawling Southerner remains largely an outsider. When he went shopping for an investment banker for the CBS deal, he was reportedly turned down first by Drexel Burnham Lambert and then by Shearson Lehman. Finally he reached a deal with E.F. Hutton, a relatively inexperienced player in the merger game...
Philip E. Burnham ’60, like Breck, spent a year abroad before coming to Harvard—though he spent it taking courses at the University of Edinburgh. Burnham came to Harvard in the fall of 1957, but spent much less time in the Yard before moving to Winthrop House...
...spent three days in Mass. Hall above the president’s office as a freshman, and then I was subsequently and swiftly transferred to sophomore status,” Burnham says...
...strong team play of the second. In dribbling the University players showed some improvement, but there was still a tendency to run out of bounds. The line-up: FIRST TEAM. SECOND TEAM. Broun, r.f. l.f., Kempner Quigley, l.f. r.f., Brooks Amberg, c. c., Miles Griffiths, r.g. l.g.,Goode Burnham, l.g. r.g., Appel