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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...provocative task set by their analysis. Their criticism of Thurow and Rohatyn's schemes for government-directed investment in promising new "sunrise" industries--that neither provides any guarantee that companies will actually use public capital productively--is well-taken. So is their observation that going down the "Japan, Inc." route probably involves more social regimentation than Americans would tolerate. But their program, however, is not new; it's the familiar "economic democracy" laundry list: a reinvigorated welfare state; national anti-plant closing legislation; public control over "sunrise" industry profits; massive government investment in mass transit in health care...
When Jeno's Inc. built a frozen-pizza plant in economically depressed Wellston, Ohio (pop. 6,100), last March, city officials were delighted. But they found it hard to stomach the consequences. An estimated 300,000 gal. of pizza waste, made up of excess flour, cheese, pepperoni, tomato paste and meat particles, backed up in Wellston's sewage-treatment plant. The sludge filled one of two 250,000-gal. holding tanks and began to flow into the other. The waste, high in acid content, could not be buried in its gooey form, and the city lacked the equipment...
Most recently, the ACSR has turned its attention to Harvard's approximately $20 million of shares in Philip Morris, Inc., a major cigarette manufacturer. The committee informally concluded that, barring a significant change in the company's practices, the Corporation should sell its stock...
Murphy, Chairman and President of Early California Industries, Inc., has participated in Harvard fundraising in California...
DIED. Jack ("the Dandy") Parisi, 83, natty, baggy-eyed triggerman for the infamous Murder, Inc. gang of the '30s who beat every rap brought against him save one: he served six years for narcotics trafficking; in Hazleton, Pa. Said one prosecutor of the tightlipped, Italian-born hitman: "If you hung him up by the thumbs for eight weeks, he might tell you his first name...