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...fellowship in social sciences: he was instrumental in the negotiating of a grant for $930,000 from the German government to study Germany and Europe; and, he got a $124,000 Volkswagen grant for European studies. But Goldman sees more future in cultivating American corporations' dealings with Europe. The largest European foundations have an average income that comes nowhere near that of the big United States foundations, Goldman says. "Volkswagen is nothing like the Ford, Johnson, Kellogg or Rockefeller Foundations," he says...
...contrast, the present-day bird with the largest wing span is the wandering albatross, which measures about 11 ft. from wing tip to wing...
...someone wanted to expose the vulnerability-and perhaps the ecological interdependence-of a highly mechanized urban society. Nobody knows who did it, but by the end of last week, at least seven fires had been set to New York Telephone Co. property in the nation's largest city. Fortunately, only the first did real damage. Blazing late last month, it destroyed a major switching station in lower Manhattan. Until service can be restored, 170,000 phones in the surrounding area were silenced and some 300,000 New Yorkers were deprived of a vital electronic part of the urban environment...
...Largest Illegality. The new investigations have already revealed a far greater magnitude of wrongdoing than did the original Watergate trials. Initially, Gulf Oil pleaded guilty to having made gifts of $100,000 to Nixon, $15,000 to Arkansas Congressman Wilbur Mills and $10,000 to Washington Senator Henry Jackson. A federal court imposed fines of $5,000 on Gulf and $1,000 on the company's Washington-based vice president, Claude C. Wild Jr. Now SEC investigators state that from 1960 to 1973 Gulf and Wild funneled no less than $10 million into political activities, a "substantial portion...
...episode is all the more poignant because Heltzer, Cross and Hansen were held in highest esteem in the tightly knit and circumspect business community of Minneapolis-St. Paul. And the 3M Co., Minnesota's largest employer, prides itself on its finely developed sense of civic responsibility. Actually, 3M's travail is a classic example of the post-Watergate traumas that have plagued many U.S.companies that made illegal political campaign contributions...