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...Tennessee-born onetime beaverboard salesman softens over children, spends Sundays entertaining his six grandchildren at his Buffalo penthouse. He also has solid business reasons for liking kids: more babies mean more homes, more schools and greater demand for his 350 products, which range from cement to ceramic tile. And that means more plants. Having just returned from California, where he inspected Gypsum's first plant in the West, Baker last week flew to Jackson, Tenn., to celebrate the opening of Gypsum's 72nd plant, which will provide jobs for hundreds of young Tennesseans...
Harvard Architecture at the Crossroads. A controversial Harvard architect boasted recently, "I found Harvard a city of brick, and I will leave it a city of cement." Many Cambridge residents deplore current trends in University building design. Your columnist shows you how Administration preferences, Faculty demands, and budgetary constraints combine to produce the latest borror at which you will look askance...
Next day Klunder and about 1,000 other demonstrators returned to the school. Already awaiting them were dozens of Cleveland cops in a glowering cordon around the site. The inflamed mob threw rocks, bricks, bottles and chunks of cement at the policemen. Charging under a storm of stones, the demonstrators repeatedly tried to break through the lines. Thirteen persons-eight of them cops-were hurt. Twenty-six were arrested...
...codirectorship of Grandsons Roberto and Camillo Olivetti, representing two different factions. About all that they have been able to codecide is that they need the Agnelli syndicate to come in and buy one-third of Olivetti. To run Fiat and some 110 other companies that range from cement to Cinzano vermouth, Giovanni Agnelli's twelve heirs have put their combined holdings into a smoothly functioning holding company called Istituto Finanziario Industriale...
...Home Affairs Minister, who had lost more face than Reischauer had blood, resigned. Next day Premier Hayato Ikeda so-sorried in Japanese (with English subtitles) directly to the U.S. via Relay II satellite. As far as Ambassador Reischauer was concerned, the whole affair was just another opportunity to cement Nipponese-American relations. The blood transfusions during surgery, he insisted, had made him a "true son of Japan, a mixed-blood child...