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...fought hard to stop the government-sponsored Alfa Sud project. But Alfa President Giuseppe Luraghi was the better lobbyist. "By 1981, automobile production in Italy will double to around 2,600,000 cars," said Luraghi. "We intend to participate in that market, and we hope to have at least one-fourth...
...first, most Faculty and students, including myself, chose merely to condemn the demonstration against Dow's presence at Harvard as a brutal infraction of free speech and movement within the University. This issue, of course, has been resolved by the Faculty vote to place almost one-fourth of the demonstrators on probation. But in the mean-time, it has become clear that much more was involved than the staunch defense of a few time-honored freedoms...
...including such men as Oliver Wendell Holmes, Roscoe Pound and Felix Frankfurter. Among today's leaders, the school has produced Supreme Court Justice William Brennan, Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz, Yale President Kingman Brewster and Sociologist David Riesman. The quality is matched by quantity. Harvard Law has prepared fully one-fourth of all U.S. law professors, and its 21,000 living graduates constitute one-sixth of the lawyers in the country...
...people would probably be eligible; 2,700,000 have already qualified, despite forbidding red tape and Double-Crostic forms; 1,700,000 of these are in New York City-half of those believed to be eligible. The U.S. pays half the medical bills for most patients, the state pays one-fourth and local governments onefourth...
...endorsement from a big-name performer or a music center. The struggle for the mass market has stiffened with the entry of low-priced Japanese models. Even now, before the Kennedy Round tariff reductions, which will lower duties from 17% to 8%, Japanese grand pianos sell for one-fourth the price of domestic models. Their U.S. sales climbed from 6,219 in 1964 to 9,263 last year...