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Least surprising of all was the news that for the umpteenth year in a row Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," led the list of largest courses. Nine hundred and ninety-three undergraduates--not including those laggards who didn't file their study cards on time--have signed up for a year's worth of supply and demand curves, giving Ec 10 almost 300 more students than any other course in the College...
...weekend to dedicate the new facilities of the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard hopes it will be inaugurating a new era in the training of American public servants. Harvard will also be honoring Charles W. Engelhard, the man who for two decades served as the United States' largest corporate backer of the apartheid regime in South Africa. Not just any small-time mogul who has run roughshod over the political and economic rights of 18 million people, but the very epitome of U.S. corporate complicity in apartheid. It is a situation that demonstrates philanthropy at its self-serving...
...largest of Engelhard's stakes, however, was in the South African gold mining industry, which for decades has mined sub-economic gold by employing Africans at wages half the poverty datum level. Largely through his chairmanship and stock holdings in Rand Mines, Engelhard's interests controlled an estimated 15 per cent of South African gold mining industry during the '60s. Indeed, it was through his entry into the South African gold industry during the early '50s that Engelhard first started to turn his father's relatively modest metals business into a global powerhouse. Setting himself up as a bullion dealer...
...largest producer and seller of infant formula in the Third World is the Swiss corporation Nestle. Nestle operates 81 plants in 27 underdeveloped countries, raking in $300 million annually in infant formula sales. While some corporations--such as Bristol Myers and Borden--have responded to complaints by consumer, church and health organizations by terminating sales to consumers in poor countries, Nestle has refused to acknowledge its role in this serious nutritional problem. It continues to send "milk nurses" (sales personnel dressed in medical-like uniforms) to villages, sales representatives to hospital maternity wards, and free samples to many hospitals. Unfortunately...
Bryant directs the approximately 100 libraries that comprise the library system. Containing nearly ten million printed volumes, it is the largest university library system in the world...