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Because of the publicity, ginseng rejuvenating pills have now disappeared from stores in the Bay Area's Chinese communities. If they reappear, prospective consumers should steer clear of them. The ingredients listed on their labels may or may not help cure illness; the unlisted items can kill...
What remains to be seen is whether Cabot will steer Harvard clear of future investments in companies such as Middle South. Cabot is inheriting a portfolio which is well-stocked with oil companies and public utilities, two of the most controversial spheres in this day of energy shortages. It is highly unlikely that there will be any immediate move to get Harvard out of such companies, no matter how regressive their policies are. There may be a slight alteration of this make-up over time, but if Harvard ever does decide to divest itself of its Gulf Oils, Middle South...
Strauch makes his opinions very well known to the committee but he has thus far been able to avoid any attempt to steer the committee in only one direction. Aside from Strauch, most committee members point to Dean Whitlock as the most influential among their number. Whitlock, who has 26 years of administrative experience at Harvard, knows so much about how things operate in the undergraduate sphere, that members often defer to his experience...
...payroll messenger did not show up. Later the group planned to raise money for the cause by staging another payroll robbery at a construction site. One of the unit's members, Pat O'Brien, was on holiday in Ireland, and Lennon was ordered by Wicken to steer clear of the caper. The three other members of the unit walked into a trap and were arrested before the heist could take place. In December all were found guilty of plotting the robbery and sentenced to ten years in prison...
...Pakistan. Trained at Britain's Sandhurst Royal Military College, Ayub rose to commander in chief of the Pakistani army and became president in 1958. He helped spur Pakistan's economic growth but did little to remedy the inequitable distribution of income among the population. In attempting to steer a neutral course in global politics, he clashed with-and later fired-Foreign Minister Zulfikar Ali Bhutto. Bhutto became a critic of Ayub's regime and was jailed briefly in November 1968. After five months of bloody civil strife, Ayub stepped down into retirement. Bhutto became President...