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...cent. After her husband Lawrence assured her that that really was what the proxy statement said, the De Neufvilles began getting in touch with other shareholders in an attempt to defeat the plan at Security Pacific's annual meeting last month. But Chairman Frederick G. Larkin Jr. assured stockholders that the plan would make officers work hard to raise profits and stock prices, and the scheme was approved. Security Pacific thus joined the growing ranks of companies that are adopting the hottest-and most controversial-executive-compensation idea in years...
...countrymen buried their dead of Munich. The nation's Olympic hopes had never been especially high; Israel has no professional sports and only mediocre amateur games. Nonetheless, the men who died last week represented their country's best hope of improving that record. As Shmuel Larkin, head of the Israeli delegation to Munich, put it: "This crime has thrown Israeli sport back ten years." The victims...
Neither Cook nor other company officers can expect to collect any executive bonuses this year. That expectation, together with the earnings drop, left them in a dyspeptic mood, and somebody had to take the blame. Last month President Arthur Larkin, 55, took early retirement under pressure, and Cook, 62, already the chairman and chief executive, became president as well. Says Cook: "We have to do the surgery, get it over with, and get on with the business...
...Patrick's Day, 1858, to carry on Wolfe Tone's dream of independence. Vaguely socialist in doctrine, the Brotherhood specialized in random bombings and produced its share of patriotic heroes for Ireland to keen over. Among the most famous?although hardly the most successful?were "the Manchester Martyrs," Michael Larkin, William Allen and Michael O'Brien, who were hanged in Manchester in 1867 for shooting an English constable while they tried to rescue a fellow Fenian from a police...
...play takes place in a variety of kitchens, on the outskirts of a major city, on the day before Thanksgiving." Not Thanksgiving itself, mind you, but the very day before. Furth's playlets approach individual resolutions only to resolutely back away. Although there is a stability in Peter Larkin's sets--the four kitchens themselves are best seen as variations on a single theme--underneath it all the answers are just as tentative and tenuous as in the crazily mobile world of Company...