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...position, as expressed during the April strike, had several weak points. In the first place, the overall theme that Harvard is expanding its facilities in effect, primarily to become a more efficient tool for killing Vietnamese peasants is at best debatable, and perhaps ludicrous. Furthermore, the existence of a compact between Harvard and the Federal government to further the University's expansion appears dubious in view of the fact that, since the advent of the Johnson Administration, the Federal government has been giving proportionately less money to top-rank universities such as Harvard and M.I.T. and more to state universities...
When the Chevrolet Corvair was introduced in 1959, its fresh engineering was hailed as the forerunner of a new age of innovation in Detroit. The compact auto, designed to stop the imported car invasion, featured an air-cooled rear engine made largely of aluminum. It was the creation of Chevy General Manager Edward N. Cole, now president of General Motors. But the Corvair's plain Jane appearance did not seduce as many buyers as G.M. had expected. Restyled with bucket seats and a four-on-the-floor shift, the car gained popularity as something of an American sports...
...take over. They have no particular reason to do so; the school's teachers and officers are somewhat oppressive, but far more grotesque. All their actions indeed seem to spring from very visible eccentricities or deformities. The children likewise act from the nature of their visual appearance. Small and compact, they are energy-filled balls of light (their clothes are dazzling white) which dash around destructively. The adults are purely objects of satire; the kids, devils...
...fall and eventually replace A.M.C.'s leisurely-selling $1,998 Rambler. General Motors is developing a model code-named the XP-887 and expects to have it in Chevrolet showrooms within 18 months. It will probably be smaller than the Maverick, and Ford is already designing a "sub-compact," the Phoenix, to counter the XP-887. Only Chrysler has yet to decide whether to enter the field...
James Reed Ellis, 47, looks like a university professor: compact, neat, with greying hair and blue eyes behind horn rimmed glasses. Ellis is, in fact, a corporate lawyer in the firm of Preston, Thorgrimson, Horowitz, Starin &; Ellis. He is also that rarest of citizens, a practical leader...