Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...real surprise came the next month. After length negotiations that included jetting off to Aspen to find majority stockholder Carter Burden, and the expenditure of $15 million, Murdoch became the owner of not only New York and its fledgling cousin New West, but of The Village Voice as well...
...charge of editorial operations. Meanwhile, unknown to Felker, Murdoch, friend number one, had approached friend number two Burden with an offer of $7 a share. And Burden was churlish; he didn't want to sell his magazines to the dowager empress. He took his skis and went off to Aspen to think about it, and the deadline to sell to the Post came and went...
...Richfield in the newspaper business is Robert O. Anderson, 59, Arco's chairman. A part-time cattleman (his 1 million acres of ranch land make him one of the nation's largest individual landowners), philanthropist and self-styled student of social problems, Anderson is chairman of the Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies, a social science think tank with offices round the world...
...asked. The Observer, it turned out, had been losing as much as $1 million a year and recently laid off one-third of its staff. The paper's owners, heirs of the second Lord Astor, were willing to hand over control to the right investor. Cater telephoned the Aspen Institute, which reached Anderson, and Anderson invited Observer Proprietor and former Editor David Astor to bring the paper's books with him to Los Angeles. Last week, ten days after Cater's serendipitous supper, Atlantic Richfield's board approved the purchase; the price reflected the reality that...
...first to make sculpture move, Calder liked "the idea of an object floating-not supported. The use of a very long thread seems to best approximate this freedom from the earth." The movement, created by touch or air, may be slow or fast, ponderously deliberate or fluttery as an aspen, but it always has the purposed yet unpredictable grace of nature itself...