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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...disagree completely with your article on The Gun [June 21], but I will defend unto death your right to say it with a rock, poker or some other hard object. FRED L. NORMANDIN JR. Forest Grove...
...they were seated across the table from each other, drawing each other's portrait. One boy had drawn the other with an extremely long neck. When the art teacher inquired about the trouble, the irate youngster asked, "Who in the hell does he think he is, Modigliani?" MARIE L. LARKIN Supervisor of Art Board of Education St. Louis
...sales, is far narrower than the 1.5% achieved by Safeway, the second-biggest chain. Many stockholders, particularly heirs of Founder George Huntington Hartford, who started the chain 109 years ago, place much of the blame on a foundation set up by Hartford's sons, John A. and George L. Hartford, which holds the biggest single block (34%) of A. & P. stock. They maintain that the management-dominated foundation (eight of ten trustees are present or past A. & P. executives) in effect runs the company, placing the interests of top staffers ahead of stockholders'. Fearful of inquisitive bankers, goes...
...Ahmanson's financial colossus was his Beverly Hills-based Home Savings & Loaji Association, which, with assets of $2.5 billion, is nearly double the size of its nearest rival. Ahmanson built it from a single Los Angeles S & L he picked up in 1947 for the fire-sale price of $162,000. All told, the chain now serves some 775,000 depositors at 32 branches, takes in $1,000,000 a day in new deposits...
...urging stockholders to reject Loew's bid, Commercial Credit argued that the theater-and-hotel operator, besides being a far smaller company, was in fields incompatible with its own. By contrast, said Commercial Credit Chairman L. S. Willard Jr., a merger with Control Data would be a "natural fit." As evidence, he pointed to his company's own budding involvement in computer operations. Already well diversified, with subsidiaries in insurance and manufacturing lines (printing presses, bearings, meat packing), Commercial Credit last January set up a data-processing operation in a joint venture with Radio Corp. of America...