Word: engelhards
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Thomas C. Schelling, Littauer Professor of Political Economy, suggested the formation of an informal student-faculty committee to study the Engelhard issue and the K-School's policy on accepting gifts and naming facilities...
...Engelhard, who died in 1971, was an American industrialist with large investments in South Africa, especially in that country's gold mines...
Protesters point to Engelhard's South African connections, including his service on the boards of government agencies involved in recruiting African labor, as proof of his complicity in that country's apartheid regime...
...Engelhard said in 1967 that "the policy of South Africa as expressed by the new prime minister (John Vorster) is as much in the interests of South Africa as anything I can think of or suggest. I am not a South African, but there is nothing I would do better or differently...
...Engelhard's defenders say the millionaire, a graduate of Princeton, worked to improve race relations in South Africa and the U.S. Graham T. Allison '62, dean of the Kennedy School, said in January that Engelhard's record was not as bad as often reported...