Word: seeds
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...excellent Spanish, pushed company efforts to break up the compounds and help the workers buy homes in regular communities. He has also expanded the operations of the company's Creole Foundation, which helps build schools and train teachers in Venezuela, and established the Creole Investment Corp. to provide seed capital for deserving small businesses. In three years, C.I.C. has invested $5,300,000 in 22 small companies, ranging from a mushroom farm to a sugar refinery, has helped create 1,500 new jobs. Said Jarvis at the company's annual meeting in Manhattan last week: "The investment company...
...Seeded first along with the varsity heavyweights, the undefeated JV heavyweights have a very impressive record to date but the prospects for their race are unclear. Cornell, the second seed, has yet to find itself, and ift it does Saturday, anything could happen. The freshman heavyweight race will be a four-way battle between the first four seeds, undefeated Yale, Cornell, undefeated Harvard and Navy...
...morning heats, the first three boats qualify. Harvard faces Wisconsin, the fourth seed, which has defeated M.I.T. handily but is otherwise an unknown quantity. In recent years, good Crimson heavyweight varsities have failed even to qualify, but this will not be a big fear Saturday...
...sacred obligation to her public, Newman reveals that she has had a dozen face-lifts and is so full of wax that she doesn't dare get close to a fireplace. Newman's funniest conceit, in every sense, is an idea to package frozen "Celebrity Seed" so that every woman in America can have a baby by her favorite actor, singer, TV panelist, "or in certain isolated instances, dress designer." That's what Baby needs -a playwright father...
From this tiny seed, sown a full 13 years before Hitler's accession, sprang the most perverted, rapacious and successful propaganda apparatus the world had ever known. By 1936, after just three years in power, the Nazi party owned two-thirds of all German news circulation outright and tightly controlled the rest. Not a line was printed without official approval, not an editor escaped the role of Nazi stooge. How this happened-and, more significantly, how easily it happened-is told in The Captive Press in the Third Reich (Princeton University Press; $6.50), by Oron J. Hale, 61, chairman...