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...education, Jill Ker Conway was named the first woman president of Smith, the nation's largest women's liberal arts college (2,468 students...
Last week General Electric Co., the U.S.'s largest electrical-equipment manufacturer, joined the trend. G.E. announced that it plans to acquire Utah International Inc., a large but little-known San Francisco-based mining company (1974 sales: $500 million) that has extensive reserves of coal, uranium and other natural resources in the U.S. and abroad. GE plans to pay about $ 1.9 billion in stock for Utah International...
Unsold Bottles. It must also hold up its sales. Last year, all of the 30 largest French champagne makers lost money, and inventories of unsold bottles grew by more than 50%. Last September, for the first time in a generation, the price of newly harvested champagne grapes dropped by almost 28%. But recently, with the improvement in economic conditions, champagne sales have begun to pick up mildly in France, and some bottlers are even talking of an end-of-year buying splurge by holiday revelers at home and abroad. Failing that, all is still not lost. "After all," muses Jacques...
...Tawfiq Zayad could scarcely have imagined how sharp a thorn he would become to the Israelis. In a stunning election victory last week, Zayad, 46, a lifelong Communist agitator, became the new mayor of Nazareth, which is not only the town where Jesus spent his youth but also the largest (pop. 40,000) all-Arab city in Israel. Zayad polled an overwhelming 67% of the vote, while members of his broad Democratic Front coalition won eleven of the 17 seats on the city council...
...Department of Health, Education and Welfare reported last week that total college enrollment this fall reached 11,128,000, a jump of 8.8% over last year and the largest increase since...