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Jean Paul Getty was one of a not-yet-vanished American breed, the lone wolf operator who, through cunning, luck and a sharp sense of timing, builds vast wealth and a far-flung business colossus almost singlehandedly. "If I were starting again," he liked to tell visitors at Sutton Place, his 16th century estate outside London, "I'd do it the same way -exploring, wildcatting. If you hit it you get rich. If you don't you go broke...
...after a year of discussion and hearings, the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, which represents the governments of the 24 most highly developed non-Communist nations, has drawn up a code of ethics intended to guide the multinationals in the conduct of their far-flung enterprises. To Americans, who are more familiar than most with the concepts behind antitrust law and the idea of corporate disclosure, parts of the code may seem elementary or oddly archaic. Yet in many areas of the world these concepts are little known. Hence, in a sense, the OECD code...
...student porter is guilty of being ungrateful. He had hoped for the mail truck job, riding the range with Joe Perlatonda, leaping at high speed from a silver chariot with canvas bags slung over his shoulder, delivering mail all over campus. The romance of speed and the far-flung foreign niches of Harvard fades away and all he sees is a Hefty trash...
Staffers are weighing the risks of personal appearances in other primary states where Brown is on the ballot-Maryland, Kentucky, Nevada, New Jersey-while building a skeletal national organization from such bones as Cesar Chavez's far-flung boycott network and activist church groups. Brown is considering a nationwide tour, the better to disseminate his "lower our expectations" dicta, woo uncommitted delegates and influence the polls during the pregnant preconvention lull...
...bright law student with the unbearably alliterative name of Bobby Bubbles gets involved in an absurd scandal which turns on a certain professor's lecherous reputation and a massage parlor beneath a pizza parlor. Most of the show's three hours, however, are taken up with Bobby's far-flung fantasies, which include a bicentennial minute on Law School history, a Perry Mason sequence and a take-off on Hollywood Squares with Law School professors replacing the stars. Archibald Cox's seat in the middle of the set is noticeably empty...