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Perhaps the most valuable part of the retirement plan however is the custom of allowing out-going professors to retain their studies in Widener where they have easy access to all facilities of the library. Although there is no guarantee that a professor may keep his study, tradition is very strong and few retiring professors are ever forced to vacate the stacks...
...assets total some $2 billion, and receipts run to $500 million annually, but exactly what it spends and earns is a mystery even to the government owners; its balance sheet is, by Mattei custom, uninformative. With it he can buy political influence-he is a lavish contributor to the Christian Democratic Party-but Mattei, independently wealthy, lives almost austerely in a Rome hotel, turns over his salary to charity. At 53, his main interest outside of ENI is trout fishing. "I am going to retire at 60," he says, and critics ruefully acknowledge he is so well entrenched that there...
...leader in the inboard field (its sales are more than three times those of Owens, its closest competitor), the boom is big enough for all. Owens sold $12 million worth of boats last year v. $1 million in 1953. Such companies as Matthews, Wheeler and Richardson, who specialize in custom-quality boats, have shared handsomely in the general boom...
Chaplain for the commencement will be the Reverend Richard E. Hanson, Pastor of the Union Church of Pocantico Hills, Tarrytown, N.Y. The commencement speakers are the fathers of graduating seniors Barbara Ann Jones and Elizabeth Hanson, in accordance with Radcliffe custom...
Packaging Pools. As the market for swimming pools has changed, so have the methods of building and selling them. Along with custom jobs by some 2,700 pool contractors throughout the country, swimming pools are packaged and mass-marketed under established national names just as cars and boats...