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Ganz's group urged particularly that the University sell its stock in Middle South Utilities, Inc., which owns power companies in Arkansas, Louisana, and Mississippi. The group charged that Middle South has racist hiring policies and is affiliated with segregationist legislaors...
...CRUCIBLE. (2 LPs; Composers Recordings Inc.). Based on Arthur Miller's play exposing some of the all too human motives behind the Puritan witch hunts, this 1962 Pulitzer prizewinner is the most successful to date of the operas subsidized by the Ford Foundation. Robert Ward's music is conservative by Schoenbergian standards, but dramatic, with syncopated, dissonant hymns and minor-keyed, folklike tunes suggesting the poisoned New England atmosphere. Most of the New York City Opera singers who premiered the work record it here with fine esprit de corps, led by Conductor Emerson Buckley...
...measured ten-mile course at 37,000 ft. above California's Edwards Air Force Base. Officials checked its speed with radar, and when blonde Aviatrix Jacqueline Cochran, 57, landed, she had another feather to put in her pretty cap. This time the cosmetics executive (chairman of Jacqueline Cochran, Inc.) had set the women's speed record of 1,429.2 m.p.h. at more than twice the speed of sound, easily shattering eardrums and her own 1963 record of 1,273.1 m.p.h...
Other companies present instant stock information visually. Scantlin Electronics Inc. prints figures on a tape when questioned in a proper code; Ultronic Systems Corp. uses small lights that give three digits of information at a time. In this fiercely competitive field, Teleregister will have an advanced entry: a desk device hooked to its computer that will flash the information on a screen. But none of these visual systems are likely to be quite so impressive as the embalmed voice of Walter Jennison speaking tonelessly for Am-Quote's computer...
According to the report, Harvard is the largest stockholder in Middle South Utilities, Inc., a holding company which owns four major power companies in Mississippi, Arkansas, and Louisiana. The University owns $9,939,074 worth of common stock, or about 1.7 percent of the total shares issued. Furthermore, Harvard owns 1815 shares of preferred stock in Mississippi Power and Light, Middle South's Mississippi subsidiary...