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Instant Capitalism. In its foreign operations, Van Camp tries hard to make friends. It employs nearly 3,000 locally hired workers abroad, keeps its U.S. supervisory staff to a bare minimum. In both Peru and Ecuador, its canneries produce fish byproducts that the company sells at cost to supplement the low-protein native diet. In Ecuador the company has enabled local fishermen to own boats by giving them loans and taking a cut of each catch until the debt is paid...
...case Gridley observed the "greatest of literary hoaxes," a brochure for the sale of the library of the Comte de Fortsas, 1840. Across the room was a "bibliography of the works of Sylvester Marmaduke (celebrated Aleutian Islands poet) (Vancouver, 1943?)." Next to this, Gridley noticed, was a mimeographed supplement to the British Museum's Bulletin of Printed Books. It mentioned the acquisition of the unique volume published in 1455, Asellus Hinnibundus (Whinnying Ass). Asellus begins with the words: "In hoc libro non continentur quae expectares, candide lector" (You won't find what you expect in this book, shining reader...
...from one thing to another. The four of us" (Miller's collaboraters in Beyond the Fringe are three contemporaries named Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, and Dudley Moore) "had never met before we started. We were all brought to Edinburgh by a promoter to start a show that would supplement the so-called 'fringe' parts of the Festival there--the theatrical offerings...
Peaceful Explosions. If the darkest fears of 20 years ago have not been realized, neither have the highest hopes. Sunday-supplement visions of impending universal plenty, with nuclear reactors supplying unlimited cheap power, were grossly premature. Nuclear reactors still cannot produce electric power as cheaply as thermoelectric plants fueled with coal or oil. But mankind has received a huge, unforeseen bonus from the radioisotopes created in nuclear reactors. They are used in countless applications in industry and science, from detecting tiny, hidden flaws in machinery parts to tracing physiological processes in the human body...
...decision had come after three weeks of controversy following the printing of an article written by Mitcham in the Gadfly, a weekly opinion supplement to the Daily, on Sept. 21. Commenting on United States polities, Mitcham, a philosophy major, had attacked Sen. Barry Goldwater as a "fool, a mountebank, a murderer, no better than a common criminal...