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Battles are under way for control of Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Container, Ozark Airlines, Midas International and other major companies. In many instances, the attackers are not professional raiders but insiders-men who sold their firms for stock in big companies during the heady 1960s, then watched in dismay as the shares crumbled last year. Perhaps the fiercest fight pits the management of GAF Corp., which makes chemical and photo products, against Former Director Seymour Milstein, his family and friends. Milstein is upset by what he calls poor performance by the men who bought out his Ruberoid...
...Army machinery was already under way to spring Calley to house arrest, initiated at the request of the defense by Major General Orwin C. Talbott, commanding general of Fort Benning and the convening authority for Calley's court-martial. Many officers greeted Nixon's intervention with bitter dismay. One said of the President: "He knew all along that Calley was coming out. He just beat us to the punch...
...year later by the even more brilliant Petrouchka, in which the solo piano part projected a Pierrot-like puppet at a Russian fair-a part realized on the stage by the great Nijinsky. Both works were to remain Stravinsky's most popular with the public, to his eventual dismay. They also established his lifelong identification with the dance, which in later years produced notable collaborations with George Balanchine and the New York City Ballet...
...left the stockade, one of the 50-odd cheering onlookers remarked: "Now at least he's not a prisoner of war in his own country." Removing Calley from the stockade had an enormous symbolic effect, but it will not change his life all that notably. To his dismay, all beer and liquor were removed from his apartment. He has a permanent MP guard in the apartment. He may leave his home only under escort, to eat at an Army mess hall and to exercise for one hour daily. He may talk on the telephone or see only those friends...
...into the risky business, investing more than $700 million in the hope of big, though perhaps slow, profits. Few have become so extensively involved as Boise Cascade Corp., which has 29 recreation projects spread from Hawaii to New Hampshire. The company's chiefs, much to their surprise and dismay, have belatedly discovered that environmental zealots are increasingly able to stall or block even the well-planned development of unspoiled woods and shorelines...