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...Andel started Amway in 1959 with Richard DeVos, a Grand Rapids high school chum who is now president and the other co-owner of the company. The two had joined a number of small enterprises after World War II, including a restaurant, a flying school, a commercial air charter service and a distributorship for Nutrilite. The two left to start Amway, taking with them a number of discontented Nutrilite distributors. The first product that Amway marketed was an all-purpose liquid cleaner called Frisk, and today soaps and detergents remain the core of the business...
...Importance Edwin Warner's Essay on "Strengthening the CIA" [April 30] correctly emphasizes the CIA'S importance to our national security. However, it fails to note the need for intelligence charter legislation. The aim of charters is to authorize proper CIA activities and provide for effective congressional and executive oversight. Such legislation, which will reflect a broad consensus, should do much to remove what you term a "debilitating cloud of suspicion" from CIA operations and let it go ahead with its vital work...
...cell." Thomas' pyrotechnic conclusion demands the accompaniment of Bach, with the volume turned way up: "No one has the ghost of an idea how this works, and nothing else in life can ever be so puzzling. If anyone does succeed in explaining it, within my lifetime, I will charter a skywriting airplane, maybe a whole fleet of them, and send them aloft to write one great exclamation point after another, around the whole sky, until all my money runs...
Final vindication for the Sunday Times came from the Court of Human Rights last week. The 11-to-9 decision stopped short of saying that Britain's law of contempt itself violates the broadly worded guarantee of free expression in the charter, which also recognizes the need to protect the "authority of the judiciary." But banning the final Thalidomide article simply was not "necessary," said the Strasbourg judges. In this case, they added, the public's right to know was more important...
Harvard's charter says one of its missions is to produce God-centered men. Smith said. President Bok's recent letters on the University's ethical responsibilities "ignore the real fact that Harvard turns out many of the world's leaders" and thus directly affects the outside world, he added...