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...Pyramid. Though it is probably the world's oldest soft-drink firm, Britain's Schweppes Ltd. is a greater mix than most non-Britons realize...
...frame like a queen's grenadier guard in mufti: "Minn will come through." Minn did. The T. B. Walker Foundation donated the land and a grant of $400,000. The Ford Foundation added $337,000. A Sunday school class in Mankato, Minn., sent 37?. Out of a pyramid of effort, a $2,250,000 theater was born. To keep it alive for a four-play, May through mid-September season costs $660,000. Already $331,150 has been raised in advance sales. What is the value of a classical repertory theater? In Guthrie's view, it offers playgoers...
...printing plates and plastic signs and sells citrus fruits. Chucking & Muscling. Muscat, Krock and Huffines got together in 1957 through a mutual interest in rehabilitating a sick New Jersey company called Reinsurance Investment Corp. With the help of their own private fortunes, they then began to build their industrial pyramid, swapping the cash or shares of one company to win control over others or using shares as collateral for loans to buy other companies. As they got control of each company, they quickly closed down or sold off profitless operations, expanded the money-making ones, chucked out many incumbent executives...
...University should not wait until embarrassment forces it to hire a Negro professor. The fastest way to build up a "pyramid" of academic excellence is not layer by layer. People in the highest levels inspire and give hope to those...
Ford said that the Negro community is beginning to produce an academic elite, but stressed that "today we are building the base of the pyramid...