Word: portfolios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...earned money performing mime in whiteface in front of the Metropolitan Museum. In 1976 he returned to San Francisco and met Valerie Velardi, a dancer whom he married last June. Valerie organized and catalogued his routines, and persuaded him to try his act in Los Angeles. With no portfolio, no resume, no connections, Robin headed for open-minded improvisational clubs. Within a year he had landed stints with the now defunct Laugh-In and Richard Pryor shows, which led to his celebrated guest shot on Happy Days...
...should come as a surprise to no one that a Harvard portfolio company has played a key role in bolstering South Africa's illegal presence in Namibia. According to its most recently published reports, Harvard owns more than $2.5 million worth of shares in AMAX, Inc., the U.S. mining multinational. AMAX, in turn, owns one-third of Tsumeb Corporation, the copper mining company that employs more African labor in Namibia than any other firm. In a recent annual report, AMAX bragged that Tsumeb has finally trained a few of its 5000 African workers to fill such semi-skilled posts...
Despite student demands for either divestiture of stock in all companies in the investment portfolio that operate in South Africa or the initiation of shareholder resolutions calling for withdrawal of the companies, the Corporation opted for a case-by-case review of each company...
...memories and regrets. So near for so many years to the power he sought, yet still so far away. Sitting there in the very building where he had first entered national politics 39 years ago as an aide to Congressman Lyndon B. Johnson. A President still in search of portfolio...
...dispute flared briefly over the firing of a black Justice Minister who complained publicly that there were so few blacks holding senior positions in the civil service and police. Since then, according to veteran civil servants, the level of cooperation between black and white ministers sharing the same portfolio has been generally high. But the real test is whether the blacks on Rhodesia's governing Executive Council-Bishop Muzorewa, the Rev. Ndabaningi Sithole and Chief Jeremiah Chirau-can pull off a ceasefire; the evidence so far strongly suggests they cannot. They still routinely invite Patriotic Front Leaders Robert Mugabe...