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...Your article "Nationalization in Zambia" [Aug. 22] brings out very clearly some of the dilemmas facing investors in that country in the light of President Kaunda's recent move in asking the owners of Zambian copper mines to negotiate the sale of 51% of their shares to the state...
...want to thank you for putting "Old Ty" and me out there for everybody to see [Aug. 8]; and my deep gratitude for the thought and research that went into the article...
...coup was shrewdly timed. Before Kerkorian started bidding, MGM stock had dropped from a 1968 high of $55 to $29 a share. The company recently estimated that it lost at least $25 million during the fiscal year that ended Aug. 31. Most of the deficit, however, grew out of MGM's decision to write off as losses some box-office flops and a great part of its slow-selling inventory of monaural records. Kerkorian thus bought into a company that may be poised for a turnaround. Bronfman has already predicted a profit for MGM in fiscal...
...After reading "The Age of Man" [Aug. 29], I happened to pick up G. K. Chesterton's The Everlasting Man and read his perceptive comment on another famous reconstruction by paleontologists -Pithecanthropus. Every word of it could be applied to Ramapithecus and the Yale investigators who have reconstructed him from "no more than partial jawbones and a few teeth...
...would like to call your attention to an error in fact in your very fine article [Aug. 29] on new directions in the insurance industry...