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...chair was endowed by a group of national business leaders in order to close the gap between decision-making in the particular business firm and the broad movements of the economy. It honors George Gund '09, Chairman of the Cleveland Trust Company and a former Overseer of the University...
...place of a Democratic one. Barely cosmopolitan enough to accept Rockefeller's divorce, they were pleased by his vague talk of "taking a stand on the issues." They were not very interested in foreign affairs, and Rockefeller generally avoided the subject. He mentioned "crumbling Western alliances" and "the leadership gap in Washington...
...Washington desk if he lunches at all. George Romney gets up at 5:45, jogs through his Lansing neighborhood in sweat togs before breakfast, lugs peanut butter and jelly sandwiches to the office in a brown paper bag. Bill Scranton is up at 6:30 in his Indiantown Gap executive mansion, 20 miles from Harrisburg. Mrs. Smith is awake at 6:45, keeps a blender in her office to whip up a dietary lunch of powdered milk, cereal and a caloric...
...foreign luxury goods, and British businessmen are importing huge amounts of raw material to keep their expanding factories busy. After months of nervously watching the spectacle, Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home and his financial agents were alarmed when January's figures showed that Britain's trade gap had widened to the largest ($460 million) in history. Last week the government took action to dampen Britain's spending spree by raising interest rates from...
...25th anniversary report on the program last year, Sizer said that the M.A.T., an attempt to bridge the gap between "subject-matter" and education courses, had produced so many qualified teachers that it "must be considered a success...