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...other professional schools as well. He has even sought to introduce ethical considerations into the University's investment policy--following the lines laid out by John T. Simon '50, a former president of this newspaper and now professor of law at Yale, in his book The Ethical Investor. But the effort, although a noble beginning, clearly lacks direction and strength, because it is rooted in a weak sense of the purpose of ethics...
That makes the land buyers a curious blend of investor-cum-idealist. R-Ranch's founder is Jeff Dennis, 55, a rancher and hunter who tells of bunking with fellow Marine Ted Williams when both men were flying F9 Panther jets over Korea. Says he: "I'm not an out-and-out environmentalist, but I believe in keeping as much land intact as we can." He paid about $5 million for five adjoining cattle ranches that totaled 5,119 acres, then in 1971 established his park with amenities that include more than 850 campsites and a large bunkhouse...
...share down from about $284 last week to somewhere around $70-the lowest since 1932 and, for the first time in decades, within the reach of the average buyer. Says IBM Chairman and Chief Executive Frank T. Cary: "We want to make our stock more attractive to the small investor...
Committee members are not wholly responsible for what I consider uninformed decision making. Mr. Laurence Stevens, the ACSR's secretary, plays a large role in this problem. Committee members are supplied with huge amounts of information, both from the Investor Responsibility Research Center and clippings from such publications as The Wall Street Journal and The Crimson. However, many well-informed sources favorable to the exit of U.S. corporations from South Africa are largely ignored. The United Nations Center Against Aparthied publishes about 30 informative pamphlets a year. Mr. Stevens is aware of this source, but the only U.N. Center Against...
...Student Assembly's pro statement on the Engelhard issue reads. "For ten years Charles Engelhard was the single largest investor in South Africa. He amassed a quarter-billion dollar fortune in the South African gold mines, where on average three black miners die every shift. Not an absentee investor, he was the only foreigner to sit on two labor recruitment boards for the mines...