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...Roderick M. MacDougall '51, Harvard treasurer and chairman of the Corporation Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (CCSR), said at a press conference yesterday that a new investment guideline which prompted the withdrawal of $160 million in funds in eight major international corporations "was influenced by students and alumni" who protest the University's investment policy...
Harvard's generosity, rather than alumni's, will be the 350th's driving force, say financial officials. "The University is always looking to try to take assets we have and share them with the world," says Treasurer Roderick MacDougall. "To think the 350th is a "scheme" for money is "just ridiculous...
...long fight." The walkout began after negotiations on a new contract broke down. USX rejected a union offer of a wage freeze, insisting that the company needs pay-and-benefit concessions to stay in line with industry labor costs. Said a tough-talking USX Chairman David Roderick: "We're going to get a competitive labor agreement, and we'll settle for nothing less...
...walkout at USX is not likely to be settled so quickly. Armed with a strike fund of more than $200 million, the union says it can stay off the job for two years. But a long walkout would be costly for both sides. Roderick has said some USX plants may never reopen. And strike benefits do not replace salaries. Steelworker Jeff Smith, who supports a family of four, will draw $60 a week from his Gary local, just 15% of his usual salary of $400. Says he: "There've been good times at the mill in the past...
...Parliament--to renounce his inherited peerage and run for the elected House of Commons. Nor, in all likelihood, would he seriously consider giving up his seat in the House of Lords for the sake of a constituency should the opportunity present itself once more, ventures Harvard Professor of Government Roderick MacFarquhar--who held a Labour seat in Commons--and other associates of Carrington. "He's an efficient, no-nonsense politician who never attempts to fool people by verbiage, but he's perhaps [indifferent] to the feelings of the public: he goes...