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...viewed the Faculty's negligence with not a little exasperation: "Since tutorial represents one-third to one-half of the departmental course work required of honors students and since most of the tutorial courses are managed exclusively by teaching fellows, we appear to be violating out principle on a grand scale...
Then came the news from Atlanta that a grand jury had finally indicted Carter's close friend and former budget director, Bert Lance. As a black thundercloud loomed over the White House one afternoon, a Carter staffer remarked, "With our luck, it's going to snow...
Lance, a federal grand jury charged after more than a year of deliberation, conspired to violate federal banking laws in the course of getting some $20 million in unwarranted loans for himself, family and friends. He is also charged with making false statements in his financial records and willfully misapplying bank funds. The long-expected indictment added no startling revelations to the saga of Lance's financial maneuvering-and it did not in any way directly involve President Carter-but the 71-page document portrayed in relentless detail the foundationless house of credit that Bert built...
...Andel started Amway in 1959 with Richard DeVos, a Grand Rapids high school chum who is now president and the other co-owner of the company. The two had joined a number of small enterprises after World War II, including a restaurant, a flying school, a commercial air charter service and a distributorship for Nutrilite. The two left to start Amway, taking with them a number of discontented Nutrilite distributors. The first product that Amway marketed was an all-purpose liquid cleaner called Frisk, and today soaps and detergents remain the core of the business...
Amway has moved to diversify by buying, among other things, hotels in Grand Rapids and the Caribbean and the 950-affiliate Mutual Broadcasting System radio network. A political conservative who was sworn into his Chamber of Commerce job by his good Michigan friend Gerald Ford, Van Andel is an earnest backer of a tax reduction group, Taxpayers United Federation. He is also a supporter of a campaign to limit the number of terms for Presidents (to one), Senators (two) and Representatives (six) in order to reduce the preponderance of professional politicians, as opposed to "citizen" politicians, in Washington...