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Anheuser-Busch, the largest beer company in the world, last week invited the Harvard chapter of Sigma Alpha Epsilon (SAE) to participate in a 72-hour canoe marathon in Los Angeles next February...
Lest there was any doubt that the self-styled "Communist parties of capitalist Europe" were veering away from Moscow, the position paper endorsed the "free circulation of people" - an attack on Soviet emigration and travel restrictions. Western Europe's two largest Communist parties specifically asserted that "the right of each people to decide in a sovereign manner its own political and social regime must be guaranteed...
...York Daily News is not only the nation's largest daily (circ. 1.9 million) but also the only tabloid left with a front page right out of The Front Page. Some recent screamers: PAL'S INFO LED TO SLAY SUSPECT; COPS TOSS BASH, HOOK 42 HOODS; and, when the White House first ruled out federal aid for New York City a month ago, FORD TO CITY: DROP DEAD...
Long regarded as an exacting and prestigious calling, the accounting profession has smarted in recent years under charges of sloppy or illegal practices that contributed to some of the biggest scandals in U.S. business history. As the world's largest accounting firm (annual revenues: $500 million), New York-based Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co. took a heavy share of the blame. To help restore its image, Peat, Marwick about six months ago took the unprecedented step of hiring a competitor -Arthur Young & Co., one of the smaller among accounting's Big Eight -to scrutinize its practices...
Died. Henry Townley Heald, 71, former president of the Ford Foundation, world's largest, most influential, philanthropic trust; in Winter Park, Fla. The lanky native of Lincoln, Neb., became the first president of the Illinois Institute of Technology, where he served from 1940 to 1952. For the next four years he was chancellor of New York University and helped to unify its many schools and divisions before joining Ford in 1956. Under Heald, grants to education were nearly 50% of the $1.75 billion the Ford Foundation dispensed during the nine years of his presidency. Heald believed that foundations should...