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...some of the money will go for new courses and endowed professorships, most will cover new facilities, including a $14.5 million science center where students will have access to sophisticated computers and research equipment and lab courses will be delivered by TV. Harvard's science drive is the largest such specialized appeal ever launched by any college, but Ford expects that many more universities will be undertaking similar programs. "We can't say we're missionaries," he says. "But we can claim to be bellwethers...
...bustle, even it has no greenery that could properly be called a campus. At many of these schools it is even rarer for a student to talk to a professor than it is at a U.S. multiversity. Nihon has 75,500 students, second only to the Sorbonne as the largest single-campus university in the world-but only 5,400 teachers. Equally understaffed are such colossi as Waseda (39,782 students), Meiji (32,584), Chuo (29 774), Hosei (27,708) and Keio...
...eight years he spent as chairman of Imperial Chemical Industries Ltd., Sir Paul Chambers, 63, shook up Britain's largest private company from the front office to the production line. He turned a stodgy, Commonwealth-oriented company into a lean operation with new muscle to flex on world markets. Now Chambers wants out. For all his efforts, I.C.I.'s actual performance remains sluggish. And he puts part of the blame on Labor government policies; he complains that "any fool can save the pound by damming the economy." Opting for a far less demanding job, Chambers will leave I.C.I...
Into Europe. None seem called for. Profits may not be as high as management might like, but I.C.I., the world's second largest chemical manufacturer (after Du Pont), has revitalized itself in the face of increasing competition and falling world prices in key chemicals. Under Chambers, an economist, the company brought in a U.S. management-consultant firm to streamline its organization, moved more vigorously into plastics and synthetic fibers, expanded research in such products as weed killers, antimalarial drugs and fertilizers. Chambers also prodded I.C.I.'s eight product divisions and 257 subsidiaries into becoming more aggressive in staking...
...Fiat, which is having its best year ever. At home, Fiat has cornered 75% of the market. Last summer its annual production moved past the million mark, and it eased ahead of Volkswagen as the leading carmaker in Europe-thereby becoming the world's fourth largest producer (after G.M., Ford and Chrysler...