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from Harvard, where he once taught. William F. May, 60, chairman of American Can Co., has headed his company for ten years, and has given a great deal of time to commissions dealing with crime and delinquency, racial and religious discrimination and world hunger. Among the other chief executives who merit consideration by reason of experience, intelligence and conspicuous success in business and civic affairs are Deere & Co.'s William Hewitt, 61; Du Font's Irving Shapiro, 59; and Sperry Rand's J. Paul Lyet...
Pinochet and his generals have been pursuing draconian deflationary measures. The rate of inflation has been halved−to an appalling 340% a year. There is hunger in the shantytowns of Santiago, and unemployment is running close...
...political or religious beliefs. Not one dissenter who has been charged is known to have been acquitted. Amnesty, a London-based organization that issues occasional reports on political prisoners throughout the world, made its conclusions from smuggled testimony by present and past inmates. According to the study, torture by hunger is widespread, involving low-calorie punishment diets. Food is often rotten and infested with maggots and cockroaches. Medical facilities are grossly inadequate to treat the diseases attendant upon hunger and hard labor...
...White House's analysis of what they meant. The original pact was proposed to "strengthen the capabilities of the West for the maintenance of international peace and security." President Eisenhower in 1959 spoke of Spain joining the U.S. to achieve a world "free from agression, from hunger and disease, and also from war and the threat of war." Last June, when Ford visited Spain he granted, on behalf of the United States, "recognition of Spain's significance as a friend and partner." Peace and physical security are the only two higher principles mentioned in these official pronouncements...
Cousy only mentions his playing career briefly. He talks about the pressure that he put on himself to win, how he saw each game as a personal vendetta against the opposing player, and how one championship with the Celts only increased the hunger for another one. He tells us what the killer instinct means--once you have an opponent by the throat you don't let him up, but keep him down. It's reminiscent of Bobby Fisher's comment that the enjoyment he derived from chess was not only winning, but crushing his opponent's ego as well...