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Similar questions arise about the appointment of Armand Hammer, chairman of Occidental Petroleum, as head of the President's Cancer Panel. In 1975, Hammer pleaded guilty to three misdemeanor charges involving improper contributions to the campaign fund administered by Stans. It was hardly a major matter, and Hammer is an esteemed U.S. business leader. But if the President wanted a successful corporate executive to chair this panel, surely there was someone available who had not openly confessed to illegal political activities...
...Armand Hammer, 82, millionaire businessman, on Marlon Brando's portrayal of a Hammer-like character in the movie The Formula: "If Brando gets $250,000 per day, I'd be glad to play the part myself. Or any part, for that matter...
...1920s, shale oil went undeveloped because its production cost always exceeded the market price of crude. Promises still outpace production, but during the past few years Occidental Petroleum, Atlantic Richfield and Union Oil have spent millions experimenting with shale-oil extraction in Colorado's Piceance Basin. Occidental Chairman Armand Hammer believes that his company will be able to begin commercial production by 1985, keeping costs below $25 per bbl. Today other companies are digging mines near Grand Junction and Rangely, Colo., and Vernal, Utah. Exxon is the most enthusiastic: last May the oil giant paid Atlantic Richfield $400 million...
...anonymity, Olayan is well known to influential Americans such as Occidental Petroleum Boss Armand Hammer, former Bechtel Chief Stephen Bechtel and Chase Manhattan Bank Chairman David Rockefeller. Says Olayan, whose investment in Chase is second only to Rockefeller's 1.7%: "I make quite sure that my share is always smaller than his." The man in charge of Olayan's U.S. operations, run from its headquarters on Manhattan's Park Avenue, is ex-Treasury Secretary William Simon, who is also one of Ronald Reagan's advisers...
...than she is to make a point, namely that men tend to be sexually exploitative, and crudely and rudely so. About all Private Benjamin adds to An Unmarried Woman, which made the definitively dumb statement about male piggery, is a Continental fillip. That French doctor, played rather sleepily by Armand Assante, starts out acting like a Gallic Alan Bates, sexy in a sweet and sympathetic way, but unlike Bates in the earlier film, he turns out to be no improvement on the Yanks. The revelation that bad guys are not an exclusively American product is hardly worth the time...