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The oil industry might seem to be in little need of diversification, given its dramatic rise in profits. Even so, the international oil companies, facing the certainty of takeovers of their overseas wells by many foreign governments, have been seeking to hedge their bets. Gulf Oil, for example, in the...
Most important, perhaps, Marcor Chairman Leo Schoenhofen reacted coolly. In a terse ten-line statement, he said: "Marcor's management is not in a position to reach any judgment regarding the proposal." Marcor was formed in 1968 largely for the purpose of fending off takeover bids. The managements of...
The poky Aerocrane probably will never be practical as a people mover, but it could be economically put to other uses. Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, a strong advocate of lighter-than-air vehicles, is encouraging the Senate Aeronautical and Space Sciences Committee to study the potential of blimps, dirigibles and...
Maguire is the consulting firm which supported the Inner Belt, a proposed traffic artery (later scrapped) hated by Cambridge residents, and the firm which allegedly bowed to political pressure in altering its findings about a new container port in Boston Harbor. Anti-library forces have objected so strenuously to the...
A variant of the Lutheran General and Chit Chat models is the treatment center that combines group therapy and hypnotic suggestion with a behavioristic kind of aversion treatment: electric shocks or drugs to make the very odor of liquor abhorrent. At Seattle's Schick's Shadel Hospital, which...