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Harvard's overzealousness has surprised some officials, who had originally feared that Radcliffe's dining halls would owe Harvard's dining halls large sums to redress the imbalance. The March figures indicate that Harvard owes Radcliffe about...
...Bung (Brother) made his initial blunder when he decided not to reopen Indonesia's $3,000,000 pavilion at the fair because of "the open support given by the U.S. to the neocolonialist project of Malaysia." Moses immediately threatened to confiscate the place-particularly since the Indonesians still owe him some $250,000 to cover demolition costs when the fair ends. Cagily, the Indonesians stalled Moses by hinting that they were trying to get a New York entrepreneur to run the pavilion for them until the demolition money was raised. Meanwhile, they began hauling out of the pavilion everything...
...colonialism, and since that issue is fast liquidating itself, it has become necessary to invent "neocolonialism" to keep it going. At the same time they plainly feel, as became clear at last year's meeting of UNCTAD (United Nations Conference on Trade and Development), that the "neocolonial" powers owe them a living through aid and better trade terms...
Into the Pot. Only some 5% of the 4,000 languages spoken today have managed the arduous transition to writing -a trip that all but the few that still use ideograms, like Chinese, owe to the Semitic tribes who traded with Athens 27 centuries ago. The Semites had a phonetic script so much more resourceful than the Greeks' own that it was promptly adopted. From Greece this alphabet spread to Rome, and from there Rome's conquering legions took it all over Europe, including England...
...three owe their fortune to some savvy progenitors. Their late father, William, founded the tire company 50 years ago with $50,000 that he had borrowed from their grandfather, a wealthy merchant. William started diversifying almost by accident; in 1940 he bought a radio station as a gift for a fourth son -now in private business in Florida-who was not interested in tires. Soon William began acquiring stations of his own. In 1955 he added Hollywood's RKO complex-which he bought from Howard Hughes for $25 million-and formed RKO General, a subsidiary that accounted for about...