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...Overseers are Harvard's highest governing board. But the Board usually restricts itself to approving the decisions of the seven-member Corporation, the governing body which includes President Pusey and Treasurer George F. Bennett '33 and holds legal title to the entire University. The Overseers meet only seven times per year...
Shell, Esso, Chevron and Amoco make ambitious claims. Esso's Big Plus is touted as "the lowest-lead, highest-octane gasoline for the money," and Chevron boasts that its F-310 fuel will "reduce fuel consumption, improve performance and cut maintenance." Ethyl Corp., which pioneered the use of lead compound additives for autos in 1923 and saw its stock jump in the 1950s when Detroit moved to high-compression engines, contends that by taking the lead out of gasoline, oil companies will actually increase other forms of noxious automobile emissions...
...phases of [General Motors'] operations" that relate to national problems. The group is headed by John A. Mayer, chairman of Mellon National Bank & Trust Co. G.M. Chairman James Roche said that the existence of the committee would give "matters of broad national concern a permanent place on the highest level of management...
...close associates absurd. When SS Chief Heinrich Himmler sought through archaeological excavations to demonstrate the early growth of German culture, Hitler scoffed: "All we prove by that is that we were still throwing stone hatchets and crouching around open fires when Greece and Rome had already reached the highest stage of culture...
West's playfulness is of the highest order. Like Homo ludens, man the naturally playful animal, he exercises imagination to create something where there was nothing. In doing so, he puts pity to shame and makes empathy seem hermetic and inadequate. Words for a Deaf Daughter is an act of love, not merely its expression. It is also a work of art, the vision of the loved object widening beyond adoration into new ways of seeing the world...