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...bring to my students life-giving thoughts. I teach them to hate the shameful exploitation of man by man and the man-hating ideology or racial exclusiveness. I teach my students that life is the highest principle and therefore should not be bought or sold for even the choicest pieces of silver...
...vineyards is a closely watched price barometer for all Burgundies. At this year's auction, in a hall bedecked with medieval tapestries, the needle shifted to "stormy" as 362 pièces (a pièce is the equivalent of 25 cases of twelve bottles each) of the choicest 1978 Cms fetched prices that averaged just over 50% above last year's already exalted rates. By the time it becomes available in a Paris restaurant two or three years from now, a bottle of 1978 Pommard may cost as much as $50. "The Burgundy market...
...needed to pay off its foreign debts. In the first half of this year, however, its net increased 13%, to $1.4 billion, and the quarterly dividend was raised 10? a share, to 85?. Exxon is a prize example of strength begetting strength. It has bid top dollar on the choicest drilling leases around the world and has participated in all the major new finds; it has a 25% interest in Alaska's Prudhoe Bay fields, and a major stake in the North...
...this year they plunged 28%. Domestically, Texaco stayed far too long with its Louisiana oilfields, where output is now dropping sharply, and overseas it has put too much of its money into Indonesia, where new finds are inadequate to replace the oil being lifted. It missed out on the choicest North Sea tracts, and must now spend enormous sums to develop fields less promising than those tapped by others. It has been drilling wells in Alaska but it has not yet found oil there...
Tickets are assigned on the basis of a priority system worked out by the Faculty Standing Committe on Athletics. There are 13 gradations of priority with top administrators getting the choicest seats, followed by the standing committee, current and former varsity players, undergraduates, alumni, and graduate students. Every football letterman in Harvard gridiron history receives four complementary tickets for The Game...