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...York City Sir: Your statement "Itek ... became [a] glamor stock even while . . . still operating in the red" [June 1] is not factual. Itek, founded in September 1957, initially had three profitable years, during which its sales moved from scratch to some $30 million per year, and during which it fully justified investor confidence. Itek's fourth year ended "in the red," largely as a result of unanticipated problems, now being solved...
...student with a twisted sense of humor (and a bulging purse, as Harvard is rather fond of administering fines) could gambol through years of unrestrained practical and emerge without a scratch. the line between the petty prank and the felony that causes the axe to thin indeed. The Dean's Office will only smile sadly at the student who took a month's vacation to in the middle of the term, for attendance as a rule is strictly voluntary. But should a student be at his desk intently studying of Joyce he has taken from the library without signing...
Forgiving Verse. The Independent was not exactly amused by the competition, especially when Billie Sol scooted around town corralling most of the advertising and shooting off his mouth about those right-wingers on that other paper. For the first time in its history, the Independent really began to scratch for news, and in Pecos the news, as usual, involved Billie Sol. The suspicions of Independent Editor Oscar Griffin, 29, zeroed in on the 15,000 fertilizer tanks that Billie Sol was supposed to own. Week after week, the Independent needled Billie Sol. That was well before anyone else thought...
...Lebanon has been inundated by a flood of investment money from oil-rich Saudi princes and from wealthy Egyptians, Syrians and Iraqis frightened by the increasingly socialist policies of their own governments. Riding this tide, brash, resolute Yusuf Bedas in ten years of frenetic expansion has built Intra from scratch into Beirut's largest bank, with capital of $10,000,000 and 16 branches in Europe and the Arab world...
...college? What if I tell you that there will be absolutely no proselytizing of athletes?" Assured complete freedom, hard-driving Calvin C. Flint, 56, four years ago accepted the presidency of California's paper-stage Foothill College in Los Altos, 35 miles south of San Francisco. Starting from scratch, Flint has already made Foothill a mountaintop among U.S. junior colleges-the fastest-growing segment of U.S. higher education...