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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Monro said, "if you start limiting your investments with social welfare in mind, there aren't going to be that many companies available which are free from social criticism...
...well, if we're worth a billion dollars and we have the largest endowment of any private university in the country, why can't we spare a few puny millions to build..." a new indoor athletic building, for instance. That billion is capital, Bennett stresses, "and once we start cutting into that, we're going to get busted." All the University can spend from its riches for the fiscal year 1967 is the $30-$40 million it will realize in income...
Both Davidson and Martin are aiming for a theater life for Los Angeles that will compare with or excel Broadway's best. They've got a good start. By last week, the Taper had virtually sold out its first season with more than 30,000 subscriptions...
...Beach plant to Eastern Air Lines. British Aircraft Corp., which managed to beat U.S. planemakers into the short-haul business, has delivered 85 of its twin-jet BAC One-Elevens, has orders for 67 more (none from U.S. airlines). And competition is growing. Next month The Netherlands expects to start test flights of its 65-passenger Fokker twin-jet F-28. At $2,350,000 per plane, Fokker figures that it can still grab a profitable chunk of business...
Though not so spectacular, the "Unwed Mother" game by Henry Beard and Mark Stiumpf, takes some excusable cracks at Pill-wheels and has the added virtue of being slightly dirty. The list of thumb-nail sketches for parlor games at the start of the issue makes good fun of Parker Bros. jargon and is an amusing reductio ad absurdum of games in general. After the third or fourth game-article, the technique of reducing a real-life problem to playing-board size starts to wear a little thin, but the pieces are worth skimming for the occasional laugh...