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...LING by STANLEY H. BROWN 308 pages. Atheneum...
With his nimble mind and ability to manipulate numbers, he might have become a nuclear physicist or a chess master. Instead, James Joseph Ling became the quintessential conglomerator. In the roaring '60s he created a company that eventually ran up sales of $3.75 billion a year from products as diverse as jet planes and hamburgers. By 1969, Ling-Temco-Vought of Dallas was the 14th largest industrial enterprise in the U.S. In 1970, with LTV stock crashing and bankers hounding him for huge debts, Ling's own directors booted...
Texas empire builders like Ross Perot, James Ling and Haroldson L. Hunt have a penchant for headlines -but D. (for Davis) Doyle Mize does not. A self-effacing entrepreneur known by only a few in the upper echelons of business, Mize, 48, is chairman of Houston's Southdown, Inc. In three years under Mize, Southdown has acquired a cluster of companies that drill for oil, develop land, refine sugar, make cement and sell beer, pushing its sales up from $35 million to $182 million, with net profits of $38 million last year. Now Mize is spreading into the thriving...
Hsing-Hsing and Ling-Ling, those cuddly pandas from Red China, are so happy in their new digs at the National Zoo in Washington, D.C., that they have taken to standing on their heads and wiggling their rumps in an apparent gesture of good will. From Peking, however, came ominous reports that Milton and Matilda, the musk oxen that President Nixon presented to the Chinese, were not on exhibit at the Peking Zoo because they were suffering from postnasal drip and a skin condition that was causing them to shed their hair...
...risin'/ For Henry Clay and Frelinghuysen" to the tune of Old Dan Tucker; and a plaintive complaint about Prohibition with Old Black Joe's lyrics changed to "I'm thirsty, I'm thirsty/For the beer we used to know./I hear the gentle voices cal-ling,/'Have one, Joe.' " The truly grand finale featured excerpts from March King John Philip Sousa's El Capitan, an operetta that triumphed in 1896, then vanished into obscurity, leaving only the famous title march to mark its existence...