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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directors that were also on the Stevens board. Four months later the bank accepted the resignation of Stevens Chairmen James D. Finley and David W. Mitchell. About his resignation Finley said wryly, "You don't stay where you're not wanted." A few weeks later, Mitchell, chairman of Avon products, resigned from the Stevens board in response to letters from union sympathizers threatening a boycott of Avon products. Mitchell explained that his continued directorship at Stevens would not be in the best interests of Avon--the company which merited his greatest allegiance...
...billion in pension and other funds from New York's Manufacturers Hanover bank unless it dumped two of its directors, who also held seats on the Stevens board. The bank quickly caved in and failed to renominate Stevens Chairman James D. Finley and David W. Mitchell, chairman of Avon Products. Two weeks later Mitchell, deluged with letters from union sympathizers threatening a boycott of Avon goods, also quit as a Stevens director...
...Many people believe we're running an Avon-lady type of operation--this isn't so," Bechtal said...
...leads to Warwick and its castle, one of Europe's best-preserved medieval fortresses. The venturesome wayfarer might try the Zetland Arms Pub below St. Mary's Church, with clean rooms and the best breakfast in town for $11 a guest. Less than ten miles south is Stratford-on-Avon. Will Shakespeare is remembered shabbily in a lot of curio shoppes, but magnificently upheld by the Royal Shakespeare Company. The Stratford Hilton (yes, Ophelia, there is a Stratford Hilton) and the Shakespeare charge about $65 a night for two. However, a room costs an unbelievable $12 at the Strathedon...
...museum is in Bath. The city's music and drama festival, from May 18 to June 3, is devoted mostly to baroque composers, but moderns like Janacek and Stravinsky are also performed. A small, comfortable hotel is the Richmond, near the Venetian-style three-arch Pulteney bridge across the Avon (double room with bath, about...