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Andy Kaufman sheds characters like a cold-sufferer discarding Kleenex. He is not only this indomitable overreacher called simply "Foreign Man." He can be, as easily, a lowlife Vegas saloon singer named Tony Clifton; a heartsick yearner after a lost love from the seventh grade; a ringmaster for a kind of rainy-afternoon kiddie show, full of cartoons and silly songs. In all those guises, Andy Kaufman is a little like a stand-up Pirandello. But what adds particular piquancy to his lavish charades is Kaufman's adamant refusal ever to drop his own mask...
...period in the company's history. Recalling the rough treatment that the press gave top management in the winter of 1974, when Exxon announced similarly enormous profit gains during the Arab oil embargo, the company avoided a press conference; instead, it announced the earnings by faceless press release. Chairman Clifton Garvin and President Howard Kauffmann even managed to be out of town on vacations, leaving any explaining to be handled by a monotoned vice president...
...Peter F. Clifton '49, executive director of the Harvard College Fund, said yesterday Gibbens' departure will not affect the capital drive...
...would have to raise $8 million total to reach that goal of $4.8 million unrestricted dollars," Clifton said yesterday...
Kaufmann said unrestricted money made 75 per cent of the College Fund's contribution to the Faculty in 1972, and only 55 per cent this year. But Clifton said the unrestricted figure was at a temporary low because of bookkeeping quirks, and would soon rise to more desirable 65 per cent level...