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...term "Harvard College" is not so easy to crack, however. Steiner believes a possibility may lie in the restructuring of certain institutions following the Strauch Report--especially in the merger of the undergraduate admissions offices...
...Radcliffe Trustees have consistently opposed total merger, seeking to preserve the identity of Radcliffe College. But one way or another, for Steiner to open up the awards without violating their terms he has to get women into Harvard College. He said last week that he hopes to do so for women in the Class of '76--women who entered Radcliffe College three years ago and who will receive Harvard degrees next spring...
...audacious entrepreneurs who built conglomerate empires from scratch in the 1960s, James Derrick Slater endured the longest. Americans like James Ling (Ling-Temco-Vought), Bernie Cornfeld (Investors Overseas Services) and John King (King Resources) saw their corporate houses of cards collapse around them, but England's merger lord and his mammoth Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. seemed to grow more prosperous every year. Now Slater, 46, has also had his comeuppance, His company's role in alleged fiscal improprieties is under investigation in Hong Kong and Singapore; he has resigned as chairman of Slater, Walker and gone into seclusion...
...next year Slater masterminded a potential merger between Slater, Walker and Hill Samuel, an old-line London banking firm with ties round the globe. The merged companies would have become one of the most powerful financial forces in the world, but Hill Samuel backed off at the last minute. Shortly thereafter, Slater began the downhill slide that ended with his resignation last month...
...said "the virtues of smallness and an autonomous women's institution" stand in the way of any merger...