Word: firm
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Aside from the recent acquisition of Popular Library, a paperback book company, Ackerman has had no publishing experience. His business is the salvation of troubled firms. A native of Rochester and a graduate of Syracuse University and Rutgers Law School, he became a partner in the New York City law firm of Cooper, Ostrin, De Varco & Ackerman in 1957, specializing in mergers and acquisitions. In 1962, he decided to try his own hand at the business. He bought controlling interest in Perfect Photo Inc., later merged it with three other firms: United Whelan Corp., a drugstore chain; Hudson National...
...committee headed by Councillor Barbara Ackermann to try to find a site. Mrs. Ackermann said she understood that Acting City Manager Ralph J. Dunphy has been considering two sites--one on Harvard Business School property and the other on a City-owned field now occupied by an auto firm...
...Welfare, John W. Gardner was forever receiving feelers from universities casting about for new presidents. Since he announced his resignation from the Cabinet last January, the rush to his door has become a traffic jam. Besides being beseeched by publishers for book manuscripts and magazine articles, Gardner has received firm offers of four university presidencies, not to mention at least two dozen directorships of schools, foundations and corporations...
...been fierce at times for John and Mary Updike. She is a strong, self-contained woman with the "firm ankles" of Updike heroines, and many of their friends believe that he could not survive without her. Do Updike's many stories of tension in marriage suggest experiences of his own? Says he: "My marriage, like many others, has had its intervals of deaths and renewals...
...longer term is coming up for wider consideration. Oppenheimer Industries, a Kansas City-based, real-es-tate-managemeift firm, was long happy with a fairly generous pay plan for employees on summer-training duty. Now that its board chairman, Harold Oppenheimer, a colonel in the Marine reserves, is on duty in Viet Nam, com pany officials say that they are working out something for those "called up for an indefinite tour...