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...nation's eighth largest corporation and the only oil company with outlets in all 50 states. Howard Rambin has been moving too. Last week, at 53, he was named Texaco's new chairman and chief executive officer, a post in which he will replace retiring Augustus C. Long, 60, Texaco's top boss for the past eight years...
...odder figure ever guided the destinies of the Holy Roman Empire than the Emperor Julian Augustus (circa 331-363), known as Julian the Apostate. Here was a recluse and a scholar who became a great military leader, an ascetic who preached the life of the senses, a fatalist who believed he would remake the world. More important, here was a man who did his best to write an end to Christianity before it had fairly begun. As the subject of biography he is endlessly fascinating. As the subject of fiction he has one major defect: he was an utterly irrational...
...years ago, Egypt's Empress Hatasu sent out a whole fleet in search of new animals to stock her private menagerie; Emperor Wen, the first of China's Chou dynasty (12th century B.C.), had a collection of animals he called "the Garden of Intelligence"; Roman Emperor Octavius Augustus had no fewer than 420 tigers, 260 lions and 600 assorted other specimens from Africa...
Died. Arthur Augustus Allen, 78, Cornell University ornithologist who in 50 years of bird watching discovered many principles of avian psychology (birds are shocked to see themselves in mirrors, sometimes suffer from inferiority complexes), was the first to raise the ruffed grouse in captivity, locate the nesting place of the bristle-thighed curlew, record successfully the call of the whooping crane; of a heart attack; in Ithaca...
There is something about the name Emmett Augustus Carlisle III that conjures up visions of double-breasted blazers and yachting caps, and maybe a seat on the New York Stock Exchange. But this Emmett Augustus Carlisle III, 21, is a broad-shouldered blond from Athens, Tex., who is more comfortable in hip pads than flannels. Around the University of Texas campus, folks are so proud of him that they sometimes call the seniors "Carlisle's Crowd," and anybody who breathes "Duke" Carlisle's given names is alookin' for trouble, pardner. If Duke can't handle...