Word: garvin
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...company's history. Recalling the rough treatment that the press gave top management in the winter of 1974, when Exxon announced similarly enormous profit gains during the Arab oil embargo, the company avoided a press conference; instead, it announced the earnings by faceless press release. Chairman Clifton Garvin and President Howard Kauffmann even managed to be out of town on vacations, leaving any explaining to be handled by a monotoned vice president...
Charles E. Garvin '74 and Greg A. Rosenbaum '74, debate team coaches, won Harvard's last national title in 1974. Garvin said yesterday that the two coaches' experience may have give this year's team an advantage, but "it would be presumptuous to say we knew more about the competition scene than they (the students...
...Garvin said this victory over Northwestern was important. "Northwestern had won five national titles: Harvard had won three," he said. "Now it's five to four," he said...
Such tactics have caused oil executives to mutter about drawing up a blacklist of their own, perhaps to refuse to deal in the spot market with OPEC countries that will not honor their legally binding contracts. Said Clifton Garvin Jr., chairman of Exxon: "It is our belief that we should not buy oil at present high spot market prices." Others do not seem so confident. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell, a major customer of Iranian crude before the ouster of the Shah, was back in the loading queue for a new supertanker cargo at an undisclosed price...
Greg A. Rosenbaum '74 and Charles E. Garvin '74, both of whom captured the national title for Harvard while seniors, are coaching the club this year...