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After Napoleon. Reyre, a career banker who took charge of Paribas in 1948, has so far multiplied its assets tenfold, to $1 billion. A constant innovator, he was the first French banker to bring out convertible bond issues, invest in the Sahara oil boom, and create an open-end investment fund to lure small investors into the French stock market...
Premium on Maturity. Another innovation, mandatory for all students at Florida Presbyterian and already adopted by such established colleges as Bard, Colgate and Colby, is the "winter semester" of open-end independent study. Spliced in between the two regular semesters, it gives the students a month each year to pursue a sweep of projects ranging from the study of nonthermal radio emissions of Jupiter and digging up the Mayan past in Yucatán to working with migrant workers in Florida's orange groves...
Astonished Congressmen are beginning to realize that they have created what amounts to an open-end drain on the federal treasury, and are now considering passing economizing amendments. But the most difficult trick in Government is to take back a benefit once it has been granted...
...longer rely on global giveaways as an open-end solution for surpluses. For all its good intentions, the Food for Peace Program cannot be greatly expanded without running into serious economic and political problems about world commodity prices; as it is, the U.S. is accused of "dumping" surpluses on nations that would go hungry without them. Moreover, most countries receiving this aid, such as India, which took 20% of the entire U.S. grain crop last year-and needed more-are unable to import available grain for lack of handling and storage facilities...
...play Dutchman, Negro Writer LeRoi Jones pits a decent, unbelligerent young Negro against a dirty-mouthed white girl, symbol of decadence and cruelty, and lets her kill him. In Jones's The Toilet, eight Negroes abuse a white boy and then beat him up. During open-end discussions at Manhattan's Village Vanguard last winter, Jones put an extra racial twist on the death of two white civil rights workers murdered last summer in Mississippi. "Those boys were just artifacts−artifacts, man. They weren't real. I won't mourn them. I have...