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...city's people, the college at once set high admission standards and offered free education to thousands of immigrants' children who survived the grinding competition. A kind of proletarian Harvard, it produced a long list of financiers, writers and scientists, including Bernard Baruch, Felix Frankfurter, Upton Sinclair, Lewis Mumford and Jonas Salk. As the flagship campus of the 15-college City University of New York, it now has 20,000 students...
...large, seems wholly safe from the grasp of conglomerates. During the past two years, conglomerates have absorbed or gained control of such big and basic enterprises as Jones & Laughlin Steel, Lorillard, Wilson, United Fruit and Armour. Lately, relative newcomers to the corporate scene have attempted to take over Sinclair Oil, B. F. Goodrich, Allis Chalmers and mammoth A & P. Even Pan American World Airways, long considered to be practically an unofficial agency of the U.S. Government, feels threatened by Resorts International, a onetime paintmaking company whose primary asset is a Bahamas gambling casino and a few hotels. Resorts' total assets...
...free, high-energy source that will drive us wild into the streets of America yelling and screaming and tearing down everything that would keep people slaves," says their 26-year-FRIEDMAN old manager and mentor, John Sinclair, who also runs the group's hippie-style communal household in Ann Arbor, Mich. Sinclair and the MC5 are self-styled "musical guerrillas," who flaunt their memberships in a minuscule left-wing organization called the White Panther Party (sample plank in its platform: "Total assault on the culture by any means necessary including rock 'n' roll, dope and obscenity...
National Verities. Like Norman Thomas and Upton Sinclair, Steinbeck rebelled against injustices precisely because of a profound faith in man's perfectibility. The epic journey of the loads was a warning against the evils existing within the American system, but the migrants were presented as the actual guardians of all of the national verities: family loyalty, trust of neighbor, devotion to the land. Steinbeck's dogma was uncommonly wholesome for a radical of the '30s. Avoiding customary Communist cliches, he affirmed children, home, mother and young love. "Nothin' but us," says Ma Joad, "nothin...
...Cook Inlet, working wells produce 195,000 bbl. daily and have made Alaska the U.S.'s eighth largest oil-producing state. Three years ago. with U.S. consumption increasing and reserves decreasing, oilmen decided to take advantage of a state auction of North Slope oil leases. Companies like Sinclair, British Petroleum, Union Oil and Atlantic-Richfield spudded about 30 wells and came up with nothing worthwhile. Then, after drilling through the permafrost to 9,500 ft., a consortium of Atlantic-Richfield and Humble Oil last spring brought in a well named Prudhoe Bay State No. 1. When high-grade...