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Financing the Center for International Affairs is a big and complicated business. The main burden is borne by the Ford Foundation, which gave Harvard $12.5 million in 1964 for general support of international programs. It was the largest single gift in the University's history...
...thing that the Center, the DAS, and all the departments have in common is lack of space. In the past, the main interest in international studies has centered around the Russian Research Center, the International Affairs Center, and Eastern studies focusing on Chine. But Latin American studies have spread considerably in the last two years, and the Japanese Department has expanded with the return of former Ambassador Edwin O. Reischauer. "When the new building is constructed," Dean Ford remarks, "one thing is for sure: there will be a scrap for space...
...Somoza fortune in Nicaragua is estimated to total some $100 million. The Somozas hold majority interests in the national airline, the steamship company, the gold mines, a steel-fabricating plant and the main port complex; they own cattle ranches, cotton warehouses and thousands of acres of real estate. They have neutralized most of their potential opponents by creating a system in which they have allowed even their opposition to grow rich on the prosperity-but not to share the power. So strong is the Somoza power and confidence, in fact, that the current Anastasio-who is ready to switch from...
...warrior gave no sign of it at the meeting, in which he said he was "gratified" by the deal. What may have helped was a check for $69 million that McDonnell brought with him to pay for 1,500,000 shares of Douglas stock. That was the main reason the Douglases had finally come to terms: McDonnell was the only suitable merger prospect that could supply cold cash immediately. Even before the stock-swap merger, which still needs shareholder approval, is completed, the prospect of the deal may defrost lenders who have been cold about extending Douglas some $400 million...
...somewhat surprising that Royal Crown, riding on the success of its best-selling Diet-Rite Cola, wanted to merge at all. The main reason is that American can provide the capital and international marketing know-how that Royal Crown needs in overseas markets in order to keep pace with the leaders. Royal Crown, moreover, is no stranger to tobaccomen. To build up its sales efforts abroad last June, the company hired as president of its international division Morgan J. Cramer, former chairman of P. Lorillard...