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Inside this week's issue of TIME is an interesting document about a remarkable enterprise: the annual report of Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. That broadly diversified corporation is celebrating its 20th anniversary and is marking the occasion in distinctive fashion. The 64-page pull-out section is the largest advertisement ever placed in any publication. Companies often seek to explain their business to the public through ads, but never before has a firm made such a comprehensive statement to so many people at one time...
Invitations--6400 of them--went out this week inviting the entire Harvard undergraduate body to the Student Assembly's Boston-Boston gala, set for Sunday night at the city's largest discotheque...
When Stanley goes next year, so may History 1711, "The United States and East Asia," one of the department's largest courses, with an average enrollment...
...number of foreign students in the U.S. has risen sharply. Last year there were 235,000 foreigners (many of them graduate students) on college and university campuses, a 15% jump over the previous year; there are even more in the U.S. today. By far the largest foreign contingent is the 36,000 or so students from Iran; other big groups come from Taiwan, Nigeria, Canada, Hong Kong, India and Japan. Soon students from China will add to the numbers...
...most schools, the influx has been welcome. At the University of Southern California, which has the largest foreign enrollment of four-year institutions, the 3,700 outlanders account for 23% of the student body. Says John Callaghan, executive director for International Students and Scholars: "With the predicted decline in domestic enrollment, the slack has to be picked up somewhere if universities are to survive." At Indiana University, where enrollment dropped by nearly 4% this academic year, 1,498 tuition-paying foreign students at Bloomington contributed $1.1 million of that school's $15 million in tuition revenues...