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...relationship between the companies and the Vorster government. Employing the same criteria used in United Nations estimates, the Clark subcommittee decided that the 13 largest American firms in South Africa are General Motors, Mobil Oil, Exxon, Standard Oil of California, Ford Motor Co., ITT, General Electric, Chrysler, Firestone, Goodyear, 3-M, IBM and Caterpillar. Harvard owns stock in nine of these 13 firms, with a total value of over $200 million as of June, 1977, out of a $1.5 billion investment portfolio...
...York City, the ritual began as it has for the past 50 years, with the balloons, floats and marching bands of the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. Without Dino the Dinosaur (the 20-ft.-tall balloon was retired after 13 years and sent back to maker Goodyear), the parade moved, as always, down Central Park West, ending at Macy's flagship Herald Square store on 34th Street...
THAT IS WHY, come Thanksgiving, all the runners will begin to return home from the Appalachian ghettoes of Cleveland, Dayton, Akron, and Detroit, from the Chevrolet assembly lines and the Goodyear rubber plants. They will pour out in their new cars, filled with their new children, to show off in front of family and old high school friends, to make the narrow mountain roads a bit more dangerous for a few days. Union Dues captures this spirit; Sayles knows, as they do, deep down, that they are interlopers almost anywhere except the hills. As for most of us, beneath their...
...cannot. Custom-built for $15,000 apiece, they are three-quarter-size versions of the Formula 1 racer, powered by 28-h.p. Wankel rotary engines capable of 67 m.p.h. on the open road. The brightly colored Fiberglas bodies are mounted on tubular-frame chassis; spun-aluminum wheels carry oversize Goodyear racing-slick tires. They have automatic transmission and quick-ratio steering; brakes are front-wheel disc and rear-wheel drum. The cars are almost impossible to roll over...
...hardware is more easily available than the software or readymade programs telling the computer what to do. But addicts nevertheless manage to find plenty of applications for their new toys. Robert Goodyear, 62, a Framingham, Mass., physicist, uses his computer to tap out and edit his personal correspondence. Manhattan Physician Joseph J. Sanger cross-indexes his medical journals to provide him with instant, tailor-made refresher courses on any disease he asks for. Ham Radio Operator Irving Osser of Beverly Hills has programmed his computer to keep a log of the people he talks to on his radio...