Word: grouped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...just southwest of Prudhoe Bay, brought the highest single bid of the day, submitted jointly by Amerada Hess and Getty Oil: $72,277,133. A rival consortium of Phillips, Mobil and Standard Oil of California had bid a scant $164,133 less. Having underestimated on one tract, the same group decidedly overestimated on another, making a bid of $18,130,000. The next highest bid was a nominal...
...private sector, a group of businessmen led by Cesare Merzagora, former president of the Italian Senate and now head of Assicurazioni Generali, the country's largest insurance firm, challenged Bastogi, a big holding company in which Assicurazioni owns a major interest. Decrying Italian financial companies as "a group of hens nesting on rocks," Merzagora's group demanded that Bastogi try to stimulate private investment rather than keep its capital in the serenity of real estate holdings. Another group, headed by Insurance Executive Ettore Lolli, joined with Tiremaker Leopoldo Pirelli to oust the conservative management of La Centrale...
...McLuhanite theory that the art of communication is passing from the straight, hard linear man of the Gutenberg Galaxy into the noisy psychedelic womb of sound, sensation, sniff, touch and hash. But he does not accept it gladly, and the later stars in the Caxton Constellation (an English group in Gutenberg's inky way) do much to disprove his own thesis. Paradoxically, too, so will his book itself, at least temporarily, if it achieves the wide attention it deserves. "Chatter about Shelley" may be contemptible, but Shelley's chatter was often more important than most...
Members of the Joint Committee, however, claim that their decision has been misinterpreted. Calling it the mildest alternative open to the group, one of the members emphasized that there is nothing in the report to prevent Stauder from teaching during the Spring and receiving a new appointment from the Soc Rel department next...
Details on the selection of committee members have not been worked out, and the Overseers have not, as yet, named a chairman for the group. Hornig said. The proposal passed Friday is only an interim report...