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Mockler is also a director of the $5 billion, Lexington based Ravtheon Corporation, which makes electronics, communications equipment and appliance. Raytheon spokesman A. Newell Garden says a wholly-owned subsidiary company, Badger Company of Cambridge, employs two Europeans who are working on a South African government plant to convert coal into synthetic oil. Raytheon, however, has no factories or operations in the country, Garden says. As of last June 29-the most recent figure available--Harvard owns 110.276 shares of stock in Raytheon worth $4.19 million...
...York City lawyer Samuel C. Butler '51, who will sit on the board until 1988, is a director of Kentucky-based Ashland Oil Company, manufacturer of oil, coal and chemical Spokesman Dan Lacy says the company employ about 100 people--of 32,000 company-wide--in two South African sites an oil warehouse and chemical plant. About three-quarters of those employees are Black, and the operations produce revenues last year of about $10 million, out of total 1984 revenues of $7.85 billion. Ashland received the lowest possible Sullivan rating last year, according to Lacy...
...failed walkout did nothing to strengthen the position of British labor unions, which was battered earlier this year in a national coal strike. Concluded an editorial in the Guardian: "Union activists can misjudge the mood among the poor bloody infantry and find themselves galloping off at the head of a phantom army...
Cucchi made end-of-history folk art, full of skulls and torrents of lava, cemeteries and crowing cocks. Chia, in a melange of 20th century styles ranging from early Mussolini to late Chagall, did ladylike coal heavers expelling wind while floating in postures vaguely derived from classical statuary. And Clemente? Somewhat more elusive, various and parody resistant: a survivor. The three Cs are now reduced to two, if one can judge from the abysmal quality of Chia's New York show last winter--whimsies impacted into cliche by the stress of overproduction. This month Clemente is on stage, blanketing Soho...
With their archaic titles--some are actually called "Coal Porters"--the staff indulges every whim and want of the Royals. Even the beloved Queen mother will send the cooks scouring the stores for fresh strawberries in December, laughing "it's just a little treat." Princess Margaret routinely kept the staff up to 3 or 4 a.m. until the Queen intervened, since they all had to be up at 7. But there are occasional moments of compassion: "Charles himself has often broken Royal habit by sometimes bathing the children," Barry notes. However, Charles' interest in child-rearing came in part because...