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Among the first modern Westerners to be captivated by the Maya were the American Stephens and English artist Frederick Catherwood, who started in 1839 to bushwhack their way into the Central American rain forest to gaze at the monumental ruins of Copan, Palenque, Uxmal and other Maya sites. The book Stephens wrote about his trek was an enormous popular success and sparked others to follow him and Catherwood into the jungle and into musty Spanish colonial archives. Over the next half-century, researchers uncovered, among other things, the Popol Vuh (the sacred book of the Quiche Maya tribe...
Varley ordered Ryder to lead an investigation into the slush-fund charges, but pressure was mounting on the government to conduct a separate inquiry. In any case, the discovery of some noncontract payments abroad would hardly come as a surprise. Sir Fred Catherwood, chairman of the British Overseas Trade Board, candidly admitted last week that "in one-third of our markets, bribery is a way of life." Nonetheless, the Daily Mail's story could hardly have come at a more awkward time. Only two weeks ago, at the London summit, British officials joined representatives from the U.S. and other...
...following year, Sigmund worked in three European cities on his Ph.D thesis for Harvard, supported by a grant from the Catherwood Foundation. The Catherwood Foundation is listed by the Congressional Quarterly as a CIA "cooperator," which means it is not as CIA-controlled as a "dummy," but more involved with the CIA than a "conduit...
...recent years, similar suspicions have generally disappeared. As Dean Martin P. Catherwood admits, there is still some distrust of the School in various quarters in both business and labor. But this distrust is now limited to individuals and does not extend to whole industries or unions. The passage of time and the School's evident effort to do the job fairly and well have dispelled most delusions...
School faculty members on occasion venture out of their Quonset hut offices to participate in fact-finding boards and investigating committees in specific labor controversies. One faculty member helped to advise a Congressional committee studying possible revisions in the Taft-Hartley Law. Dean Catherwood himself has served on groups investigating the New York waterfront situation and the recent dispute between the railroads and their non-operating employees...