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...think they were. Starting in an era when cosmetics were not quite respectable, she helped win millions of women over to them, emphasizing their therapeutic power and billing herself as "The First Lady of Beauty Science." She was a hardheaded eccentric who became one of the world's wealthiest women. When she died last week in Manhattan at 94, elfin (4 ft. 10 in.) Helena Rubinstein left behind a $60 million business that stretches from New York to London, Paris and Rio de Janeiro, and sells her preparations in more than 100 countries...
...program can alter, or even hide the fact that undergraduate instruction is often mediocre and occasionally frightfully poor. For such a condition to exist in the midst of the most brilliant Faculty and, more significantly, the wealthiest private University in the country is ironic and slightly outrageous. The problem is not unique to Harvard, of course. The University of Southern California recently sponsored a symposium of all of its senior faculty members in an attempt to persuade teachers to teach better and more often. Such discussion is conspicuously lacking in CRIMSON reports of Faculty discussions...
...Cuban missile crisis, he felt justified in criticizing her because of the pressures he was subject to from parental and financial support. But it may be that in the future of such an ambitious institution, what the American Anthropological Association thinks is more important than what even the wealthiest donor thinks, just as it may matter more to Harvard's financial solvency to be able to get grants from the NSF and NIH than to graduate alumni who will strike it rich in oil or real estate. In sum, the power of the academic guilds acts as a counter-vailing...
Wealthy Chinese, on the other hand, built villas, staffed them with servants and concubines, and took charge of Singapore's economy with little opposition. With an annual per capita income of $450, Singapore today is the wealthiest city in Southeast Asia. But the Malays simply said "Tida apa" ("It doesn't matter"), and rationalized their lowly condition with the help of the Koran, which they interpret as condemning commercial endeavor. As a result, the Malays are largely chauffeurs, street cleaners, firemen and cops, while the bulk of the Chinese are shopkeepers or larger entrepreneurs...
Died. Henri Borgeaud, 68, one of the wealthiest and most influential Europeans in Algeria, an unswerving champion of "Algérie Française who was a French Senator for Algiers from 1946 to 1959, upholding the conservative colonial cause so vehemently that Moslem terrorists machine-gunned his car in Paris in 1957 (he escaped uninjured) and Ben Bella last year saw fit to confiscate all his lands and industrial holdings, valued at close to $100 million; in Paris...