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...financial weight that its property ownership and endowment allowed, Crane and all other entrepreneurs looked across the street to Harvard Trust for fiscal leadership. Robert R. Duncan, president of the bank during the fifties, a man whom business people in the Square still remember as a "mover and a shaker," proved to be the perfect spearhead. Insurance man Dyer grumbles about the current leadership scene saying that if you asked him who could move things in Harvard Square today, ten minutes later he still wouldn't be able to come up with a name. But, Dyer points out quickly...
...does indeed. Doctors have known since 1900 that lowering salt intake drops a patient's blood pressure, and most doctors agree that Americans eat too much salt. One of the first things a doctor tells, or should tell, a hypertensive patient is to throw away his salt shaker...
...Harvard Rhodes Scholars are: Peter A. Carfagna of Eliot House and Shaker Heights, Ohio; David S. Goldbloom of Quincy House and Halifax, Nova Scotia; Griffith R. Harsh IV of Kirkland House and Birmingham, Ala.; James G. LeMoyne of Quincy House and Boise, Idaho; and Bernard C. Rolander '75 of Mather House and Atlanta...
Diners are emptying salt shakers into plastic packages-or taking the shaker itself-for home consumption. Even at tony establishments run by Manhattan's Restaurant Associates, well-to-do customers are making off with people-bags filled with everything from fruit to nutcrackers...
...Communists were more vigorous and popular than the American-backed Kuomintang, but also because "the inertia of tradition" did not permit Western-style solutions in China. Fairbank was of course right, and since that essay-as textbook writer, as target of the McCarthy campaign, as a mover and shaker in the field of Asian studies in the U.S.-he has stuck to his main theme. The great Confucian system of government that evolved by the 2nd century B.C. has resulted in a yawning cultural gap between East and West that is still responsible for much of the tension between them...