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That great big hole in the ground near Kimberley gives Harry Oppenheimer, 58, chairman of the board of De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd., a leeway of personal expression unknown to most South Africans. Taking on the additional job of chancellor of multiracial Cape Town University, which numbers 266 blacks and Coloreds among its 6,392 students, the powerful diamond king coolly defended "the right of the university to run its own affairs"-despite the Vorster government's intensified campaign to force apartheid in all campus extracurricular activities. Said Oppenheimer: "What is the use of a civilization...
...company, a Southeastern chain of restaurants and gas stations. It bought Travelers Express Co., the U.S.'s second largest money-order firm (after American Express) in 1965, last year set up an $85 million computer-renting subsidiary. Greyhound is even in bus building, set up Motor Coach Industries Ltd. in Winnipeg, Canada, three years ago, after the Justice Department beefed about Greyhound's once heavy reliance on General Motors...
...years, discriminating hostesses have seated their dinner guests at place settings crafted by Josiah Wedgwood Ltd. Catherine the Great of Russia had 952 pieces created for her summer palace near St. Petersburg; Queen Charlotte of Britain in 1765 was so enamored of her cream-colored earthenware that she commanded that it henceforth be called "the Queen's Ware." Only recently the Queen of Thailand placed her order for 400 pieces of powder blue Columbia...
Quality Before Quantity. Until recently the company has avoided producing low-priced china. It did try in 1948 to mass-produce a line, but the results were unmarketable. Last year, however, Wedgwood bought Tuscan China Holdings Ltd. and the earthenware-pottery firm of William Adams. Both are quality producers in the low price range; the Wedgwood name will not appear on their products...
...harbor last week with 711 passengers (capacity: 2,304), a message over the ship's radio instructed Captain Joseph E. Woolfenden to open a sealed envelope he had received before sailing from Southampton. Woolfenden was stunned by what he read. At that moment, the Cunard Steam-Ship Co. Ltd. was announcing in London that the world's two largest ocean liners would be retired-the Queen Elizabeth within 18 months, the older Queen Mary as early as next October...