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...Tinker to Evers to Chance, and talk endlessly above a shifting kaleidoscope of film, whose relevance is not always explained. Looking at the new ABC Evening News these days, one is suddenly reminded that Roone Arledge also invented Monday Night Football with Howard Cosell. And then his method comes clearer. Arledge is a master of sensory overload...
...conference was that the Southern polemics were somewhat more restrained than usual. Said Venezuela's Minister of State, Manuel Perez Guerreo: "You can't get a new international economic order in 18 months." How serious the conflict between the two groups really was may become clearer in July when OPEC leaders, still divided among themselves, meet in Stockholm for a review of oil prices that could once again put North and South on a collision course...
...communique, issued before hundreds of newsmen and staffers, produced no blueprint for curing the world's economic and political ills. A British official suggested that the conference's greatest success was simply that it had taken place. As Schmidt noted at one point, "We will leave with clearer ideas about each other's problems...
...scarcely news that 1976 was a banner year for big companies-but just how good it was became a bit clearer last week when FORTUNE published its annual directory of the 500 largest U.S. industrial corporations. Specifically, by one important measure of profitability it was the best year since 1968. Aggregate sales of the 500 rose 12.2%, to $971 billion; profits climbed much faster, increasing 30.4%, to $49.4 billion. That meant that the median corporate blue-blood kept 4.6? of every sales dollar as net income, a seemingly modest profit margin but one that had not been matched in eight...
Enforcing the resolution might compel the South Africans to relax information laws and give the shareholders a clearer idea of what dealings exist, Smith said, adding that under present circumstances the stock was invested in a "blind trust...