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...mayor, Hance was no newcomer to city politics. Her experience stretched over a period of 20 years and included roles in over 15 organizations. To no one's surprise, when November rolled around, Hance won every Phoenix precinct in an eight-way mayoral election. Her win made Phoenix the largest United States city under a woman's jurisdiction...
...this year more than 700 people have died through political violence, and unofficial estimates put kidnapings at over 250. Largely as a result, Buenos Aires now has 200 or so licensed protection agencies, although most of the business is done by a dozen top firms. One of the largest is Organization Seguridad Integral, S.A., run by Luis P. Occhiuzzi Agrelo, a retired commissary inspector of the federal police. O.S.I, can draw on a supply of 1,000 men, mostly former soldiers and police or moonlighting off-duty cops, for special missions. About 100 of them have been given special anti...
...boardrooms, courts and newspaper financial columns. Then overnight last week one of the nation's bitterest takeover struggles ended. Otis Elevator Co., the world's leading manufacturer of elevators and escalators, stopped fighting a bid from United Technologies Corp. (formerly United Aircraft), the world's largest builder of aircraft engines, to buy all shares tendered to it by Otis stockholders. By week's end, when the offer expired, United claimed that it had bought more than half of Otis' 8.1 million outstanding common shares at $44 each, giving it control of the firm that Elisha...
...than 1,500 companies; the C.B.O.E. trades options in only 79-and while the Big Board is 183 years old, the Options Exchange will not celebrate its third birthday until next April. Its growth has been so stupendous that now, in terms of share volume, it is the second largest securities exchange in the world; last month it broke its own daily-volume record four times. The price of a C.B.O.E. seat has soared from an initial...
...game, which attracted almost 67,000 fans, the largest crowd to see an Eastern college game this year, was played under conditions resembling those the first Harvard-Yale game was played in: cold and cloudy...