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Wagers While-U-Wait. Gambling is a state monopoly, and the house always wins. The government take is generally 50% or more of total wagers, compared with a maximum 22% in Las Vegas casinos. Grand larceny? No, just good policy, insist party bureaucrats, who never tire of showing off libraries and schools built with gambling profits (more than $133 million a year in Czechoslovakia, $300 million in Poland). They claim that gambling keeps the people happy, draws inflationary currency out of the economy, and often provides a handy way of disposing of unsold factory output as prizes...
...University cannot be neutral, it can at least find ways of making itself more open to dissent, recognize the limits of neutrality, tire of its rhetoric and its high-sounding phrases. If we can get an honest discussion of these issues, people will be more reflective...
Unknown Treasure. Nevertheless, several Western firms that had their property taken over by the Sukarno regime see a better economic climate under Suharto and are making plans to return. Among these are Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co. and Lever Bros. Others, enticed by a four-year tax holiday and easy repatriation of profits, are showing interest. The Freeport Sulphur Co. is prospecting for copper and stands ready to invest $75 million if sufficient ore is found. ITT has signed a $6,000,000 contract to build a satellite relay station near Djakarta...
...sampling: Gianni Agnelli, chairman, Fiat; George W. Ball, chairman, Lehman Bros. International; Eugene Black, director, Chase Manhattan Bank; Norton Clapp, chairman, Weyerhaeuser Co.; Howard L. Clark, president, American Express; Russell R. De Young, chairman, Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.; Floyd D. Hall, president, Eastern Airlines; Robert V. Hansberger, president, Boise Cascade; John D. Harper, president, Aluminum Co. of America; Earl B. Hathaway, president, Firestone Tire & Rubber Co.; H. J. Heinz II, chairman, H. J. Heinz Co.; Robert C. Hills, president, Freeport Sulphur Co.; Edward B. Hinman, president, International Paper Co.; Dr. Koji Kobayashi, president, Nippon Electric Co.; Rudolph A. Peterson, president...
Executive Fords. Since taking over, Blazer and Atkins have expanded with such acquisitions as United Carbon Co. of Houston, the O.K. Tire and Rubber Co., Valvoline Oil, the $96 million chemical operations of Archer Daniels Midland Co., and Warren Brothers Co. of Cambridge, Mass., the nation's largest asphalt-paving company. Meanwhile, Ashland executives including the chairman continue to occupy modest offices and drive low-priced cars. Says Blazer proudly: "We have probably the only executive parking lot in the country filled only with Fords, Chevrolets and Plymouths...