Word: co
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hoplites gathered in Chicago with McCarthy supporters and other Democratic dissidents to plot a stop-Humphrey campaign. To some, it is Rocky who now personifies Bobby's qualities of style and passion for the poor (if not his youth). Mrs. Joan Braden, a Kennedy family friend who was co-chairman of the California People for Kennedy, crossed over to the G.O.P. to become chairman of a national People for Rockefeller group...
...decade ago, Jewel Tea Co. consisted of little more than a chain of Chicago-area supermarkets. Then it began branching into other lines and locations. Renamed the Jewel Companies, it has grown into a diverse, sprawling operation that Wall Street analysts now call a "retail conglomerate." Only too happy to shed the food-chain label, Jewel President Donald S. Perkins, 41, prefers to think of his new-look company as a general merchandiser serving "whatever needs the consumer may have...
...directed almost as much against Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, a bitter political rival, as against the Japanese. Marcos sees Japan as a source of sorely needed investment capital, last year issued an administrative order that enabled the 17 Japanese businesses, which include such well-known trading firms as Mitsui & Co. and Sumitomo Shoji Kaisha Ltd., to operate in the Philippines. The Japanese obtained government licenses and moved in quietly; most of them discreetly left corporate name plates off their office doors, instead put up signs reading simply "Welcome, walk...
Inexorable Growth. What is ahead for the one-man show-whose assets, all told, come to some $3 billion? Ownership of Ahmanson's H. F. Ahmanson & Co., a holding company, is already parceled out in part to 1) the Ahmanson Foundation, which supplied $2,000,000 to the new Los Angeles County Art Museum; 2) his second wife, Caroline, whom he married in 1965; and 3) his only child, Howard Jr., 18, a student at Occidental College. Stock remaining in Howard Sr.'s name will go to a trust...
...nation's biggest finance companies, Baltimore's Commercial Credit Co. (assets: $3.3 billion) generates the kind of cash flow that businessmen dream about. That, together with the fact that its management owns less than 1% of the company's stock, has made it a prime target for takeover. When Manhattan-based Loew's Theaters Inc. undertook to win control of the company with a tender offer to shareholders last month, Commercial Credit's board decided that it would much prefer a partner of its own choosing. Last week it moved to sidestep Loew...