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...opened a crack in that wall. The Bank of America's Hong Kong subsidiary has amassed a two-volume, 450-page report (price: $5,000) on the petrochemical industry that provides the first definitive view of a contemporary Chinese industry. Mandarin-speaking and Harvard-trained Anthropologist Robert Silin, 39, compiled the report, making three trips to China...
...China's ambitious Four Modernizations program, petroleum-based chemicals are a pivotal industry. Says Silin: "It leads into so many other areas of basic industry, like synthetic fibers, fertilizers, rubber and plastic." His basic finding: China has embarked on a promising effort to expand its petrochemical production dramatically so that it could eventually become a major manufacturer and exporter of synthetics and resins. By 1985, if all goes well, China's production of ethylene will quadruple from 455,000 metric tons a year to 1.9 million. Polyethylene output is expected to expand from its very low current levels...
...Bank of America report, in sum, portrays a growing industry that eventually will be looking for markets abroad but that is in need of equipment and technology. There could be good opportunities for foreign involvement, but Silin's realistic assessment of the difficulties China faces has doubtless dampened some of the grander illusions about a vast and voracious new Chinese market just coming in sight...
...flunked out, three are now in the college. Of the graduates, five won master's degrees, three are M.D.s, three have Ph.D.s, two have LL.B.s. One owns a chemical company; one is a noted architect; another became secretary of the Law Society of Massachusetts; and two more-Charles Silin, of Tulane University, and Samuel Levine, a top heart specialist (TIME, Dec. 6)-are professors. Said Director John Munro of the Harvard Financial Aid Office: "No foundation or scholarship that I know can boast a better performance than that...
Singles--Ager (H) defeated Conant (BU), 6-0, 6-0; Bullard (H) defeated Dulba (BU), 6-0, 6-1; Ames (H) defeated Dutka (BU), 6-1, 6-3; Hughes (H) defeated Barry (BU), 6-0, 6-1; Frey (H) defeated Caldwell (BU), 6-0, 6-1; Robb (H) defeated Silin...