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Promotion & Profit. If any Western company could have hidden Red China's tiger successfully, it was C. V. Starr and Co., which directs a network of worldwide (69 nations) insurance companies. Its chairman is Cornelius V. Starr, an old China hand and more recently a U.S. skiing fan. (He has turned Stowe, Vt. into one of the top U.S. ski resorts.) Starting in China in 1919, Starr's group built its American-Asiatic Underwriters into Asia's biggest insurance operation, with more than half of China's total business; it accumulated large real-estate holdings, opened...
...inaccuracies are disturbingly frequent; the lead article talks about "casting aspirations on"; Sir Hamilton Gibb is mistakenly called a spring term appointment; Alfred North Whitehead was not a University Professor. For the fourth successive year, the ski team's lack of distinction is blamed on lack of snow, despite the fact that there was a record fall this year. The book's polls are almost useless. Only three of them add up to 100% of those polled. One amounts to 121%, one to 97%, two to 96%; one each to 95%, 94%, 93%, 92%, and 91%. In response...
...Three ski teams combined with a group of graduate students, University and summer session alumni last Saturday to defeat a similarly motley Dartmouth squad, 635.6 to 749.2. The slalom run on Mt. Washington was the last skiing event of the season...
...Ski Tows, Scholarships & Woods for Scouts...
...exploit oil or ore discoveries in remote areas, management generally invests lavishly in recreational facilities to attract and keep a high-caliber work force. In Colorado, Climax Molybdenum Co. has equipped the inaccessible Rockies settlement of Climax (where it operates the country's largest underground mine) with ski tows, a $31,700 youth center, a $106,000 recreation hall with bowling alleys, library, target range and gymnasium, a $128,000 skating rink and a TV booster to bring in programs from distant stations. Crown Zellerbach Corp., which runs three lumber company towns in Washington and Oregon, concentrates on youth...