Word: armande
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...Microbiologist Alex Goldfarb, then 28, was among the fortunate Jews in the Soviet Union allowed to emigrate. He became an assistant professor at the Julius and Armand Hammer Health Sciences Center at Columbia University in New York City. After his father David, a geneticist with a worldwide reputation, retired in 1979, he was eventually told that he too could leave the Soviet Union...
Last July, Alex Goldfarb appealed to Armand Hammer, 88, chairman of Occidental Petroleum Corp. and a friend of Soviet leaders for some 60 years, for help. Last week, when Hammer was in the Soviet Union, he met Anatoly Dobrynin, the former Soviet Ambassador to the U.S. "I'd like to take Mr. Goldfarb home with me tomorrow," said Hammer. Replied Dobrynin: "That's impossible." Said Hammer: "Anatoly, I'm accustomed to doing the impossible." Later, Dobrynin telephoned Hammer to say, "Permission granted." Hammer rushed to tell Goldfarb, who was in a hospital with multiple ailments, including failing eyesight, diabetes...
Many Americans mistakenly believe that the Arm & Hammer line of baking soda, detergents and deodorizers is owned by Industrialist Armand Hammer, 88. Irked by the common confusion, the high-profile chairman of Occidental Petroleum reportedly tried a few years ago to buy the label from its owner, Church & Dwight of Princeton, N.J. But now Hammer is at least a minority Arm & Hammer proprietor, after Occidental gained a slice of ownership in Church & Dwight by a new joint venture. Under the scheme, Church & Dwight received a 50% share in a potassium-carbonate plant owned by Occidental in Muscle Shoals...
...story is hardly unique in American industry. Either through a surplus of energy or ego -- and very possibly both -- founding entrepreneurs frequently find it hard to turn over the reins of "their" company to a successor. Armand Hammer, chairman and chief executive officer of Occidental Petroleum, still jets around the world at 88, and has outlasted several presumed heirs. After 41 years at the helm of W.R. Grace, the multibillion- dollar chemical producer, J. Peter Grace, 73, has been overseeing a major restructuring of the company and shows no signs of stepping down. Robert W. Woodruff, longtime chairman of Coca...
Immediately after the Chernobyl nuclear accident last April, the Soviets spurned U.S. offers of aid. But they did allow Millionaire Industrialist Armand Hammer to dispatch his friend Bone Marrow Specialist Dr. Robert Gale to help. Two weeks ago Hammer became the first known nonmedical Westerner to meet with those hospitalized by the disaster. Accompanied by Gale, Hammer visited Kiev's Hospital 14, where 259 Chernobyl victims have been treated, and talked with two heroes, S.T. Milgevsky and N.E. Fedorenko, bus drivers who ferried firemen and workers to and from the reactor area after the explosion. Why did they...