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...Arthur D. Trottenberg '48, associate dean of the Faculty for development, the University has received more than $81 million in advance pledges and donations; and, despite an unstable economy, Melissa Gerrity, acting associate dean of the Faculty for finance and administration, says she "hasn't heard terrible gloom and doom yet." One reason for the early success of the drive may be that Harvard Campaign officials have aimed the late 1979-early 1980 Cupid's arrows at wealthy foundations and companies, many of which can always afford a plaque on a building at one of the most prestigious universities...
Such a brush with doom has been a stunning shock for an industry that once represented all that was right about American business. In 1913 Henry Ford and his assembly-line method for making the Model T become an inspiration for the new industrial age. Detroit's auto technology spread throughout the world, even to the mountain towns of Argentina and Spain, and the big luxurious American auto became the very epitome of U.S. know-how and cando...
...Cross (Peter O'Toole) is a fine parody of an energetic, egomaniacal director. He offers Lucky a change of identity on high-risk terms: take over the stunt man's job recently vacated by a chap who may or may not have been sent to his doom by the director's pursuit of a terrific death scene. In return the young man will get protection from the police. Cross is as good as his word in the matter, but before the happy denouement he puts Lucky through a sort of Berlitz course in existentialism. In his Godlike...
...Survivalists" spark a boom in doom and the profits follow...
That, he argued, was what had happened to the SALT II treaty, which Carter shelved after the Afghanistan invasion seemed to doom all chance of Senate ratification. The U.S. must "continue its firm and sustained response to Soviet aggression against Afghanistan," said Vance, but it must also maintain a larger historical perspective. "When the historian of 1990 looks back upon the year 1980," Vance stressed, "I believe a profound mistake may well be identified: a failure to ratify the SALT II treaty. It is not too late, but it may soon be. I believe that the Senate must ratify...