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...example, to pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million in memory of former publisher...
...example, to pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million in memory of former publisher...
...example, to pledge $1 million, which it has specified for use in developing the public policy program at the Kennedy School of Government. The line may also have won over some of the committee members themselves. Amory Houghton Jr. '50--who has a controlling interest in Corning Glassware, Dow Corning, Owen-Corning Fiberglas and Pittsburgh-Corning Corp.--arranged for those four companies to donate $750,000 which, along with the Houghton family's own check, will endow a $1-million Amory Houghton Sr. Professor of Chemistry. And Time, Inc. will donate half-a-million in memory of former publisher...
Occidental's aged, autocratic chairman, Armand Hammer, 82, shoved aside the president he had installed only last year, Hungarian-born Zoltan Merszei, 57, an effective but sometimes abrasive former chairman of the Dow Chemical Co., and replaced him with Abboud. The ex-banker thus became the fifth man tapped for the Oxy-Pete presidency in the past decade by Hammer, who after 23 years at Occidental shows no signs of wanting to yield real authority to any possible successor. Said Hammer of his latest No. 2: "He's a brilliant banker and a smart businessman...
Some are more likely to tote shotguns than hand-held placards reading THE END IS NEAR, and they scrutinize the Dow Jones average more carefully than the Good Book. But just as surely as the doomsayers of old, perhaps a million or more Americans foresee the imminent collapse of Western civilization. Clustered mostly in California, Utah and the Ozark Mountains of Arkansas, they are busily preparing to face the apocalypse and, above all, to survive it by providing themselves with sufficient food, fuel, shelter and weapons. Their efforts have given rise to a flourishing survival industry, specializing in everything from...