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...first woman to serve on the Commission, Mrs. Bunting will fill the final year of the term of retiring oil industrialist, Thomas E. Wilson, and will return to Radcliffe in June, 1965. She has been granted a year's leave of absence beginning this June by the Radcliffe College Council in order to assume her new $22,-500-a-year post...
...there is an average temperature of 76°, fresh water aplenty (if that's what he wants), miles of beaches and a swash buckling past peopled by buccaneers and Prohibition rumrunners. Even to day, one Freeport beer baron still uses his old Chicago sobriquet, "Shotgun John." For the industrialist, there is total exemption from corporate, personal and export taxes, and the kind of environment to attract executive talent...
...political liberal, Maremont frequently throws himself into controversy. He was the first Illinois industrialist to back a law ending discrimination against hiring Negroes. Named chairman of the Illinois Public Aid Commission two years ago, he campaigned for publicly supported birth control for welfare families. After he had excoriated the state legislators in a TV interview, they passed a special law so that they could fire him. They did-but Maremont, undeterred, last week sandwiched speeches and interviews on birth control in among visits to his far-flung plants. Says he: "My role as a businessman is only one aspect...
...Dividend" is the brain child of Eugenio Mendoza, 56, Venezuela's leading industrialist and philanthropist, who made a fortune in lumber, paper products, cement and construction (TIME, April 12). When Mendoza first suggested his Dividend idea several years ago, only a few businessmen warmed to it. But enthusiasm grew as far-leftist terrorists stepped up their attacks on business. "You either solve the problems of the masses," Mendoza warned, "or they solve them...
...Swarthmore is a mother lode of university presidents, among them California's Clark Kerr ('32) and Cornell's James Perkins ('34). Few colleges claim more names in Who's Who; few boast alumni so diversely successful-Novelist James Michener, U.S. Budget Director Kermit Gordon, Industrialist Thomas B. McCabe (Scott Paper), and Pitcher Dick Hall ('53), Swarthmore's gift to the Baltimore Orioles...