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...foundation of Taiwan's economic success was laid in the late 1960s by Finance Minister K.T. Li. He pioneered the establishment of free-trade zones where foreign-owned factories can import raw materials and parts duty-free, assemble them into finished products and ship the products out as exports. Taiwan now has three such zones, each a kind of manufacturing compound. Together they will eventually employ some 90,000 Taiwanese workers in 150 enterprises. Foreign investors are also lured by cheap labor costs-one-third to one-fourth lower than in Japan-and velvet-glove treatment by the government...
...architecture in the Cambridge area. Hunt designed the structure in the style of historical revivalism, reflecting his belief that the meanings of the past must be saved for the well-being of the future. Harvard has an interest in preserving this view of the world, since Harvard's continued success as an academic institution depends somewhat on its ability to maintain a sense of historical continuity. As Stan Lawder, Luce Professor of Film, put it, "The building has dignity, age and beauty. You just don't decide to wipe something like this off the face of the earth...
Starr has succeeded with the technique so far, but if he hopes for a total success he should pursue the history of California to its present resolution. He is leaving Harvard for California this summer to work for Mayor Alioto in San Francisco and teach as a visiting professor at Berkeley. He writes that he plans two more installments on the California experience. Perhaps he will finally explain to me the Beach Boys and Ronald Reagan...
...program's success, according to Louis M. Lyons, a member of the first Nieman class and the Foundation's curator until 1964, lies in the "happy coincidence" that universities and newspapers are equally universal--one in the subjects it offers for study, the other in the events that it covers and studies daily...
THANK-YOU citizens of Cambridge! It is you who have made my writing debut a great success. The past few weeks have been among the happiest in my life. You have invited me to your parties and even the doctors of your health services have expressed an interest in meeting with me. The sentences of my last article were only the awkward scribblings of a scientist eager to share his observations, to see whether his untested theories might experience photosynthesis in the light of day, or whether they would merely exhale more harmful carbon dioxide. Yet some of my readers...