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...business, it is more than ever before a matter of long-term projection and growth rather than of quick profits. "It generally takes plain, simple, unappetizing patience to achieve a business goal," says Manhattan Stockbroker Armand G. Erpf. "The overnight fortune is a myth." Business leaders are notably patient. The typical top executive has been with his company for 25 years and worked up through the ranks. Salesmanship is also becoming an ever more complicated exercise in patience, supported by huge amounts of research and strategy; it is not unusual for a salesman to work years to land...
...acre Pico property, and with each new start, not only derrick and drilling rig will be moved, but so will the shell that looks like a skyscraper. At dedication ceremonies last week, Los Angeles Mayor Sam Yorty presented a commendatory scroll to Occidental's chairman and president, Armand Hammer, who proclaimed: "The largest pool of oil in the world lies under Los Angeles. We believe that the Los Angeles fields can be developed to the profit of the city and its people. The problem is one of doing it without the unsightliness and noise that depress property values...
Wheat for Hides. If building a skyscraper to camouflage an oil well seems unusual, it is only in keeping with the career of Armand Hammer, 67, a bouncy man with some unusual ideas. The son of a Bronx physician, Hammer himself went to the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons. While there, he and an older brother purchased for peanuts a large supply of Government-owned pharmaceutical products that had become surplus with the end of World War I. In 1921, at the age of 23, Hammer became an M.D.-and, by selling his pharmaceuticals on a rising market...
Reflecting upon his career, Dr. Armand Hammer has only one regret: he has never had time to practice medicine. "I believe I would have made a good surgeon," he says. "I have the nerve...
Died. Frederick Kiesler, 76, visionary architect and sculptor, Vienna-born designer (with Partner Armand Bartos) of Jerusalem's underground Shrine of the Book, who is also credited with fathering off-Broadway's theater-in-the-round; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As tiny (4 ft. 10 in.) as a sparrow, Kiesler spent his life seeking "a continuously flowing world" in such structures as his free-form 1934 "Endless House," which had "no beginning and no end, like the human body...