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...going after these companies as crusaders," says Alice Tepper, 26, a pretty Wellesley graduate who is founder and director of the Council. "If they are polluters, the facts themselves will hit them in the pocketbook. Many Americans seem to prefer cleaner air to an extra dollar of dividend income." Alice Tepper does not pretend to be a pollution expert; she does know how to organize experts who can examine corporate performance. She first got interested in such problems two years ago while working as a securities analyst in a Boston investment firm. A local synagogue requested a portfolio of stocks...
...Erich Segal and good ol' Charley Reich tossing flowers at each other in the Pierson College dining hall as Kingman Brewster broadcasts the Fugs out of his office window. Think of jean-and-workshirt-bedecked Yalies pouring out of Skull and Bones to spend their GM dividend checks on grass and anti-war ads in the New York Times. And win this one for Consciousness...
...understanding of plasmas-the ionized (electrically charged) gases that make up the bulk of matter in the universe. Ignored at first, his work became important in the late 1940s when the plasma waves he had postulated were detected in the laboratory. Soon his theories may produce a bigger dividend: physicists are convinced that plasmas offer the only practical means of attaining the enormous temperatures (630 million degrees F.) needed for controlled nuclear fusion. Restlessly, Alfvén has already expanded into other fields: cosmology (the universe, he contends, is made up of equal quantities of matter and antimatter), science fiction...
...society, including the real or imagined decay of moral standards, have also exacted a toll. Insurance executives used to assume that loss claimants were honest; now the presumption is that many people cheat a bit. Greedy motorists and crooked repairmen conspire to kite repair bills and split the dividend. Noting that fire losses have climbed 15% so far this year, one Manhattan insurance broker says: "No one ever loses an old suit in a fire...
...start. The first confirmed outbreak occurred a month ago in the Soviet port of Astrakhan on the Caspian Sea, where 352 cases have been reported. At about the same time, El Tor also cropped up in Egypt. After that, the disease spread rapidly, partly as an unhappy dividend from the Middle East conflict. Soviet sailors returning from Egyptian ports may have carried El Tor to the Soviet Black Sea ports of Odessa and Kerch, where 101 cases have been reported. More recently, the disease has cropped up in Jordan, Iraq and Syria. Israel has reported 33 cases, Lebanon...