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Unless a few nimble seven-footers sprout out of the floor of the IAB over-night, the Crimson will have to make the best possible use of its greatest asset--good shooting--to beat Cornell. In nine games this season the starting five plus leading reserves John Scott and Bill Fegley have sunk an incredible 49 per cent of their shots...
...Students who organize a college strike cannot be much of an asset to their university or our country. Manual labor might be more beneficial for them...
...statement also says that Palmer St.'s "strategic location, its small scale which relates to people, its contrast with the expanse and hustle and bustle of Massachusetts Ave. and Brattle St., make it an irreplaceable asset," and adds that "future planning and esthetic possibilities" should not be disturbed...
Still unsolved is a problem involving Curtis' Ontario timberland, which borders on the Texas Gulf Sulphur Co. copper strike. That potential asset has been tied up by a stockholders' suit charging that the Curtis directors "unreasonably and fraudulently benefited" by concealing news of the strike until they had voted themselves sizable stock options...
...Pressure, No Proxies. Like Levi Strauss, which is run by four heirs of its founder, most family-owned businesses stay that way simply because the owners want to be their own bosses. There are other advantages of family ownership, of course. The family firms have the asset of secrecy, a particular plus in the brutally competitive clothing or package-goods businesses, where products are often pirated. Relieved of shareholders' probing questions and pressures to declare dividends, family managers can reinvest all their profits or, for that matter, take a bad loss without having to worry about criticism. Says...