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...recent survey by the Canadian-American Committee, a prestigious binational economic research group, the overwhelming majority of U.S.-controlled corporations in Canada have no objection to publishing financial reports, provided that the rules are the same for everyone. The new bill sees to that by extending its compass to all "public" corporations (those trading shares publicly and having more than 50 shareholders), foreign and Canadian alike. In detail, the bill requires corporations to file such data as balance sheets, directors' fees, the nationality of directors and officers, and a rundown on the division of shares between foreign and Canadian...
Your article on the development of Methodist colleges and universities in America was by far the most effective presentation of the subject we have seen in brief compass. Incidentally, if there have been "meddlesome bishops" in Methodist education, they have not been encountered here. On the contrary, these enlightened leaders of the church have set an example of statesmanship for our trustees...
...work in the theater, they lived on unemployment insurance and on his odd jobs-social director at a Florida hotel, Arthur Murray dance instructor, Los Angeles cabbie (three rear-end collisions in four weeks). What started the Berman spiral upward was a job with Chicago's talented, improvising Compass Players (TIME, March 21), where, alongside his friends Mike Nichols and Elaine May, he developed his own style of comedy and began to grow into a great performer. He loathes being compared to other comedians, particularly the "sick" ones. Says he of the sickest of them...
...Actor Jack Berlin, she has seen the inside of more high schools around the country than James B. Conant, was married and divorced in her teens (she has a ten-year-old daughter). Together, Mike and Elaine took up with a Chicago campus theatrical group that later became the Compass Players (TIME, March 21), soon began to develop a professional rapport so close that they now have more or less Siamese minds. While trying to break into show business, they held some of the odder odd jobs available. Elaine worked as a private eye, Mike drove a post office truck...
...planes and ships operate out of 80 U.S. bases in 25 lands and territories. Under terms of bilateral treaties and NATO and SEATO alliances, the U.S. also has the stand-by use of some 170 other air- and sea-bases. So effective has been this round-the-compass deterrent that the Soviets have made destruction of the U.S. base system a prime point of policy, have pursued it by threats against U.S. allies, by propaganda against U.S. forces, by subtle cajolery that puts destruction of bases foremost in any tantalizing disarmament offer...