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...stay fixed while Harvard's actual wants--the kinds of students the dean of admissions and his staff hope to recruit--change a great deal. The dean may be hoping to bring in, for example, more small-town, rural students or Negroes; the alumni in Montana or New Jersey may be concentrating on the high schools that have produced most Harvard men in the past...
...past two decades, Merritt-Chapman has had a hand in more than $1.5 billion worth of construction work, including the Mackinac Bridge, the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel, the Niagara Power Project, the Glen Canyon Dam in Arizona, Priest Rapids Dam in Washington and the New Jersey Turnpike. The company also undertook smaller projects ranging from roads in Ethiopia to Air Force early-warning stations in Labrador...
...Shared by British Petroleum, Compagnie Française des Petroles, Royal Dutch/Shell, Mobil Oil, Standard Oil (New Jersey) and the Gulbenkian family of Europe...
Pearl Harbor Day. For Levin, 58, a millionaire New Jersey real estate developer who holds an 11% block of MGM stock (current value: $20 million), it was the second bitter proxy fight against the film company in less than a year. Increasingly critical of management on many matters since his election to the MGM board in 1965, Levin last May forced a stockholders' vote in an unsuccessful effort to block a proposed authorization of additional stock...
...York-New Jersey-Connecticut area remains the center of paddle-tennis activity. Such country clubs as Greenwich's Stanwich, Rye's Manursing Island and New Canaan's Country Club like paddle tennis because, though the courts cost $5,000 apiece, they are cheap to maintain and keep the club open year-round. Individuals build courts too: Philip Morris President Joseph Cullman III, for example, has two courts on his Briarcliff Manor estate, normally entertains a dozen paddle-playing guests each weekend throughout the winter. All told, the American Platform Tennis Association estimates, there are some 500 courts...