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...marketing its "heavenly coffee." A philanthropist who gave millions for Parkinson's disease and cancer research, Black was unusually generous with employee benefits-birthdays off with full pay, bonuses for perfect attendance, interest-free loans-and in the past year faced,a bitter battle with dissident stockholders to retain control of his company. Speculation is that a new fight will soon begin...
...does not imply that professors beyond the age of 70 have nothing to offer. There is no stroke of midnight after which one's faculties and abilities disappear in a flash. Institutions like Harvard should continue to make the transition to retirement as easy as possible--allowing professors to retain their offices, as Harvard does, as will as encouraging them to continue teaching. But consideration for individuals should not obscure the fundamental need for a continued retirement age in the Ivory Tower...
...statement seemed to be significant. It implied that if only Israel would remove its forces from Lebanon as part of a withdrawal of Israeli, Syrian and Palestinian troops, and if Israel would drop its demand to retain some kind of military presence in a 28-mile-wide "security zone" along the Lebanese border, then the U.S. would guarantee the security of northern Israel. But even as the President was delivering his speech, White House aides were insisting that the address contained nothing really new and that U.S. policy had not changed...
...announced two more part-time jobs for Ariel Sharon. Following the recommendations of the commission of inquiry that investigated the Beirut massacre, Begin removed Sharon from the Defense Ministry and made him a Minister Without Portfolio. Last week the government added that at Begin's insistence, Sharon would retain seats on two Cabinet committees, one dealing with national security and the other with the negotiations between Israel and Lebanon. An aide to the Prime Minister said that while Sharon would no longer maintain direct contacts with Lebanese officials, the government valued his expertise on Lebanon and still wanted...
...Soviet authors. More pointedly, notes Chief Editor Sergei Kapitsa, "we have the right, in consultation with the American editors, to remove any article of a given issue." Among taboo subjects: social and economic sciences and defense matters. The Soviet issue also excludes consumer advertising. The translation does, however, retain the original's colorful charts and photographs, thereby making it, at a hefty price by Moscow standards of two rubles (about $2.80), one of the handsomest magazines on the Soviet market...