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Andrew P. Heiskell '28, a 1937 Business School graduate, has a more remote connection with Harvard than do Calkins and most of the other Corporation members. He recently retired as chairman of Time, Inc. and, as a trustee of New York Public Library, recently directed a major fundraising effort which many say has helped turn the system around. In addition, he serves on the board of the liberal think-tank Brookings Institution and as a trustee of the University of Pennsylvania...
...balanced-budget requirements and wobbly tax bases, a growing number of states are turning to lotteries. Since 1963, when New Hampshire started the trend, 16 other states and the District of Columbia have legalized such games; at least nine others are considering them.* The Public Gaming Research Institute, Inc. (P.G.R.I.), projects that lottery ticket sales in 1984 will total $6.7 billion (an average of more than $28 for every person in the country), up more than 26% from the 1983 sales record of $5.3 billion. About $2.1 billion of last year's take remained in state treasuries, $2.6 billion...
Fortunately, the world is nowhere near as dependent on gulf oil as it was ten or even five years ago. Constantine Fliakos, a senior oil-trade analyst at Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc., notes that the closing of the Strait of Hormuz would no longer be a major threat to most Western economies. "We are in a different world now," he says. The U.S. currently imports only 3% of its oil from the gulf, compared with 13% in 1979. The general view is that if the gulf's present output of 7 million to 8 million...
...struggling back. But after Mondale regained the role of front runner, he began behaving like one again, calling for party unity and looking ahead to the contest against Ronald Reagan. To the voters, he was no longer "Fighting Fritz." Once again he was what one party insider calls "Mondale Inc.," the buttoned-up Establishment candidate who sells shares of himself to interest groups...
...evaluate the affirmative employment practices of those companies in which Harvard holds stock the CCSR has relied on the annual Sullivan Principle reports prepared by Arthur D. Little, Inc., the Investor Responsibility Research Center South Africa Review Service publications, and correspondence with companies that do business in South Africa. The Sullivan Principles are six principles originally developed to guide American-owned companies operating in South Africa. For a signatory company to be rated by Arthur D. Little, Inc., which monitors implementation of the Sullivan Principles, it must meet nine basic requirements with respect to nonsegregation of facilities, equal and fair...