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...days when wars were simple -and considered just-the Massachusetts Institute of Technology was a proud developer of U.S. weaponry. As a patriotic duty in World War II, for instance, the school's electronics wizards perfected the radar that foiled Hitler's bombers. Now duty has become a Faustian dilemma. In the age of antiwar dissent, M.I.T. still gets more money from the Pentagon-$108 million last year -than any other U.S. university. The result has thrust M.I.T. to the forefront of a growing national debate: What role, if any, shall universities play in war research...
...work in the evening, with occasional time out for tennis or golf. Once he beat A.F.L.-C.I.O. President George Meany by ten strokes (80 to 90). Son of a New York Stock Exchange official, Shultz graduated from Princeton in 1942 with an honors degree in economics. During World War II, he was a major in the Marines. He earned a Ph.D. in industrial economics at M.I.T. in 1949, then joined the faculty as a professor of industrial relations. Later, he went to the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business and became its dean...
...II. Suddenly, Perrier itself is attacked. Mysterious buyers corner 10% of its shares. On the theory of "Cherchez Pétranger," suspicion immediately falls on Unilever, the Anglo-Dutch giant whose own bid for Sapiem has been rejected after the French government persuaded Sapiem to resist any foreign liaisons. Unilever emphatically denies raiding Perrier, and so do other potential foreign rivals, notably Switzerland's Nestlé and the U.S.'s KraftCo, which are also reputed to have eyes on France's dairy industry...
Unhappily, he is contained in a clumsily updated block off the old Chips. It is no longer the Great War but World War II that punctuates the scholastic calendar, Chips' missus (Petula Clark) becomes the victim not of childbirth but of a V-l rocket. Still, the boys are the same deferential crew; the school is ivied and kind, an eon removed from the kind of place Orwell considered "a tightrope over a cesspool." The only instance of sadism, in fact, is the disastrous decision to make Goodbye, Mr. Chips a musical. As a result, Leslie Bricusse was given...
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