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...Parvin/Dohrmann Co., the hotel-equipment supply firm that bought the Aladdin, the Fremont and the Stardust, has seen its stock drop from a 1969 high of 141½-a share to last week's 28⅜. Last year the Securities and Exchange Commission accused company officials of manipulating the stock and making misleading statements about proposed mergers. For a while, Parvin/ Dohrmann stock was suspended from trading. The SEC claimed that, at the behest of Company Chairman Delbert Coleman, Parvin/Dohrmann had paid Washington influence-peddler Nathan Voloshen $50,000 in a vain attempt to raise the ban. In February...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: A Run of Bad Luck in Gambling Stocks | 4/20/1970 | See Source »

...lists more than 300 items, each of which may be ordered directly from the manufacturer or from the Whole Earth Truck Store in Menlo Park, Calif. They include books (mostly old), magazines (mostly new), potters' kick wheels, tape recorders, solar stills, Kaibab boots, programmed reading cards, natural foods, Aladdin lamps and a list of experimental schools compiled by John Holt, author of How Children Fail...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Life Styles: Missal for Mammals | 11/21/1969 | See Source »

Wednesday, December 6 ALADDIN (CBS, 7:30-8:30 p.m.).º Once upon a time New York City's Prince Street Players repertory company was unknown and struggling. Tonight it returns to TV with its fourth fairy-tale special, the story of Aladdin and his magic lamp and genie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Dec. 8, 1967 | 12/8/1967 | See Source »

...sere plains of the northwest in concrete convolutions designed by the famed French architect Le Corbusier. Homemade ghee (clarified butter), which villagers not long ago insisted was the only nourishing cooking medium, is giving way to sealed tins of vegetable oil; kerosene-burning hurricane lanterns are supplanting the traditional Aladdin-like mud diva in peasant huts, and well-to-do farmers often buy a second lantern to hang outside as a sign of affluence. Though most villagers still prefer cooking fires of cow dung, some huts now boast $2 oil stoves. Rural electrification is also spreading, but slowly, with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Pride & Reality | 8/13/1965 | See Source »

Whether to beg a boon or pick a bone, the man of action has always known where to go and whom to complain to. Job, for example, went straight to the top, while others took their problems to lesser officials, settled, like Juliet, for a friar; like Aladdin, for a genie; like Oedipus, for an oracle; or like Dorothy, for an available wizard. It is only modern man-charged with an item he did not purchase, in arrears on accounts he has long since paid, his mail misdirected, his drains stopped up, toaster broken or license expired-who does...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: Whom To Complain To? | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

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