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...Brazilian-Scottish mother, he started out at 21 as a civil engineer on the old Southern Brazil Railway. At 58 he is one of the wealthiest men in the country. He has been president or director of a dozen companies, now heads Ceramica São Caetano, the largest ceramic (tile, pipe) plant in South America, which employs 1,600 workers...
Said Attorney General Tom Clark: "This case is one of the largest and most important in the history of the antitrust laws." Said the accused: "Utter nonsense," "fantastic," "ridiculous." With such give & take, the long-heralded battle between the Government and Wall Street's investment bankers was finally joined last week. Thanks to newspaper stories that "leaked out" to Washington reporters in the last month, Wall Street was not surprised by the civil suit filed in a New York district court by the antitrust division of the Department of Justice. It charged 17 of the biggest U.S. investment banking...
...just visit New York and Washington, like most visitors. Come on out here and see the real U.S." Like most visitors, Arthur Christiansen went to New York and Washington-and to Hollywood, where the cocktail parties were "regal, magnificent." But last week the editor of the world's largest daily newspaper (circ. 3,856,375) paid a visit to his friend Dick Vesey, now a University of Wisconsin journalism student, at his home town of Plymouth...
...largest percentage increase in the University was registered by the Trade Union Fellowships, with a 66 2/3 spurt beyond last spring's nine. Largest numerical increase took place at the Law School in a total addition...
Since the largest corporations are all that can afford any kind of a recruiting program and only one out of five College graduates work for these big-name out-fits, the placement bureau's task does not consist simply of direct references...