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...that time, the library had about 125,000 volumes. It has since grown to almost half a million, overflowing the space within Houghton itself and spilling into one of the lower levels of Lamont. The Harvard Library Committee is now in the process of trying to raise $5 million for the underground library expansion in the area between Widener, Houghton, Lamont, and President Pusey's house. Two of the projected four floors will go to Houghton and, with luck, fill its space needs on into...
Money and Management. Like many other small business enterprises, a number of new Negro-owned businesses have foundered. In Pittsburgh, a Negro druggist failed after he converted his pharmacy into a pinball parlor, whose dime machines produced a much lower return, than high-markup drugs. Hard times have hit Fairmico, a boxmaking company formed last April in Washington, D.C. Owned by Fairchild Hiller and a local Negro community group, it is Negro-managed and hires only the hard-core jobless. Absenteeism has run high, and some drug addicts have taken injections right on the factory floor. But, despite such .problems...
...affect "conditions of employment" and the "equilibrium of the auto market in France," That means that little, if anything, can be salvaged from the original deal, The two companies had intended to share manufacturing plants and probably to channel more Citroën work to Italy's lower-wage labor market, They also had planned to give Fiat access to Citroen's dealer network in France...
...theaters. "U.S. TV commercials are ahead of us by 20 years as far as techniques and methods are concerned," says Eric Lipmann, a top Publicis adman. "From a creative, artistic point of view, though, we are equals. Besides, we can make our films far more cheaply." Primarily because of lower wages, the cost of producing a minute of advertising film runs $5,000 to $10,000 v. at least...
Meanwhile, the Ford Foundation decided to test the I.S. 201 formula. In July 1967, Ford gave the City money for three trial districts--one around I.S. 201, one in Manhattan's lower east side, and the third in Ocean Hill-Brownsville. All the districts were to remain within the school system, but local governing boards, elected by the school communities, gained almost complete control over their district's schools...