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...Harvard in particular, is one of Riesman's major concerns. His proposal during this fall's Gen Ed debate that students be allowed to fail one course a year without the failure going on the permanent record was an effort to correct what he considers Harvard's "vitamin deficiency": a fear of taking risks. The average freshman (everything Riesman says about Harvard he thinks is generally true for Radcliffe) is awed by the articulate brilliance of those around him. "He becomes afraid, he withdraws," Riesman says; this self-consciousness creates a lack of communal feeling which in turn feeds back...
...honeymoon they trudged off on a bracing hiking and fishing trip through Washington State's lonely Olympic Peninsula, the young bride decked out in her gifts from the groom: a back pack and hiking boots. After four months of marriage, the young bride panted: "I'm taking vitamin pills." Now, two years later, Joan Martin Douglas, 25, can't keep up any longer. Filing suit for divorce from U.S. Supreme Court Justice William O. Douglas, 67, Joan charged the old outdoorsman with "cruel treatment and personal indignities which have rendered plaintiff's life burdensome." The justice...
Chaperons & Referees. Last week's acquisition of New York's Ruppert brewing business by Rheingold was conceived by Loeb, Rhoades. Wall Street's Lehman Bros, works on about 100 possible combinations a year, so far in 1965 has arranged the mergers of U.S. Vitamin with Revlon and of whisky-importing Buckingham Corp. with Schenley. Last year Lehman negotiated some 20 mergers, for which the purchase prices totaled more than $700 million. Goldman, Sachs last year put through more than ten key mergers, including Genesco's acquisition of the Kress variety-store chain, Transamerica's purchase...
Died. Dr. Robert Runnels Williams, 79, India-born chemist and longtime (1925-46) Bell Telephone chemical director, who in 1910 began independent research into the cause of the Orient's mysterious and killing beriberi disease, in 1934 found that the problem was a lack of thiamine, or vitamin Bl, derived from natural bran that rice-eating populations generally remove when polishing their rice; in Summit...
...missile sites. Its sensitive in struments help police to identify paint smears on hit-and-run victims, enable conservationists to check traces of water pollution in fish. Its products helped in the creation of the first atomic bomb, also made possible the production of synthetic penicillin and vitamin B12. All of these tasks-and many more- are the business of a little-known Connecticut company named Perkin-Elmer Corp., one of the fastest growing members of the fast-growing scientific instrument industry. Variety has paid well for Perkin-Elmer: last week it reported its tenth straight year of record sales...