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...range of activities. With 52% of its vast assets abroad, Jersey is the world's biggest private overseas investor. Thus "Iron Mike" Haider, in the course of a day's work, may be involved in everything from a Middle East coup to whether Jersey should eventually construct a 1,000,000-ton supertanker, or what the President of the U.S. has on his mind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Industry: The Long-Term View From the 29th Floor | 12/29/1967 | See Source »

...students in A-200 to split into two groups. By April Operation Schoolhouse wants comprehensive specifications for a vocational high school on a site already tentatively selected. But the outcome of the MAPC research may be that Boston needs a scattered series of schools, or that Boston should construct its job training programs in conjunction with other communities in the area...

Author: By Robert C. Pozen, | Title: Boston's Vocation | 12/16/1967 | See Source »

...M.I.T. toy trains are not for children. Students build scale models of trains and construct the layout's elaborate control system. Some are working on thesis projects in Tuckertown; others are involved in government research for the Department of Transportation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Closely Watched Trains at M.I.T. | 12/11/1967 | See Source »

...Edifice Complex." Lately, Ahmanson has been building monuments as well. He contributed $2,000,000 to help construct the Los Angeles Music Center for the Performing Arts, an equal sum for the new Los Angeles County Museum of Art; he also endowed the Ahmanson Center for Biological Research at the University of Southern California. Last month he announced plans for a 40-story office block on Wilshire Boulevard designed by Manhattan Architect Edward Durell Stone. With two marble-clad, ten-story outriders, the Ahmanson Center will cost $75 'million. Though some of his competitors like to wisecrack about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Entrepreneurs: Emperor in Private | 11/10/1967 | See Source »

Gustave M. Solomons is another well-qualified incumbent. Like Duehay and Ackermann, he supported Carmichael's right to speak in the auditorium of a city school. Wylie, a local lawyer, spearheaded the PTA demands for better school buildings four years ago, and the pressure has blossomed into plans to construct three new schools...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Cambridge Elections | 11/7/1967 | See Source »

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