Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Things are just as sticky in other major proxy battles, which sometimes sound like plots from next year's Dallas shows. In Houston, the future of Superior Oil (1982 sales: $2 billion) is being fought over by Howard B. Keck, 69, the founder's son, and Willametta Keck Day, 67, the founder's daughter. Day, who owns 4.5 million of Superior's 127.4 million outstanding shares, wants to set up a committee of outside directors to consider takeover offers for 45% or more of the company's stock, now selling at $35 but valued...
...that most scholars favor it: the ease of converting one unit to another-say, kilometers to meters-by simply multiplying or dividing by tens. Says Brand: "You can't visualize a tenth very well, but you can imagine a quarter or a half of something." Adds Seaver Leslie, founder of Americans for Customary Weight and Measure: "The metric system is imposed rationality...
...brain." When he died last week at 79, Balanchine was more than that; he was possibly the greatest choreographer of the century. He brilliantly synthesized ballet's elegant classical heritage with the explosive athletic energy of modern dance and the show-biz turns of jazz and tap. A co-founder of the New York City Ballet, America's leading company, the Russian-born Balanchine wholeheartedly embraced all things American: clothes, attitudes and especially the American bodies that he idealized in his choreography. Above all, he was an artist whose dances stirred the heart while they beguiled...
Christ D. Roy '86, another founder, said he hopes funds for the group will be provided by the Undergraduate Council or through an arts-supporting program on campus. We'll go and beg in the Square," he added...
...next most influential is the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. Its founder and leader is Dr. George Habash, a staunch Marxist who contends that a Palestinian state can be won only through armed struggle. Backed by Syria and Libya, Habash has clashed repeatedly with Arafat. During the late '60s, some disillusioned Habash supporters set up two splinter groups that are just as radical: the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, headed by Naif Hawatmeh, and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command, led by Ahmed Jibril. Both also enjoy strong support from Syria...