Word: maker
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...corralled estimable talents from all over the world. Jean-Luc Godard (Breathless, Weekend) came from France, Michael Powell (The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom) from England, experimental Film Maker Scott Bartlett from San Francisco and Hoofer Gene Kelly from the heart of Hollywood. He put three films into production on the Zoetrope lot: Hammett, a surreal murder mystery directed by the German Wim Wenders; The Escape Artist, starring Ryan O'Neal's 16-year-old son Griffin; and One from the Heart. By January, Zoetrope had some 500 employees and a $600,000-a-week payroll. Inevitably, Coppola...
...saga began in late 1977, when Kennecott took some of the proceeds from the Government-ordered sale of a subsidiary, Peabody Coal Co., and bought Carborundum Co., a maker of abrasives. As soon as the purchase was made, T. Roland (Ted) Berner, 70, the chairman of Curtiss-Wright, saw an opportunity. He said that Kennecott paid too much for Carborundum and that the copper company should have spent the money for improvement of its antiquated copper mines or distributed it to the shareholders. Berner then spent $75.5 million to buy 9.9% of Kennecott's shares and announced that...
Kennecott agreed to hand over its 2.8 million shares of Curtiss-Wright, plus $168 million in cash, in exchange for Curtiss-Wright's Dorr-Oliver subsidiary, a maker of pollution-control and other equipment; Curtiss-Wright returned 4.8 million shares of Kennecott to the copper company, and Berner and two other Curtiss-Wright directors resigned from Kennecott's board of directors. With their proxy fights at last over, Barrow and Berner can now get back to their real businesses of digging copper and building jet engines. -By Julie Connelly. Reported by Frederick Ungoheuer/New York
Horrobin claims that his work and press interviews on the tranquilizer led to his being forced out of a research position at the University of Montreal in 1979. Hoffmann-La Roche, the maker of Valium, was quick to dispute his findings last week. Among rats that spontaneously developed cancer, says the company, there was no speed-up in tumor growth when they were given Valium. Moreover, notes Hoffmann-La Roche, human epidemiological studies have revealed no link between cancer and Valium use. That argument, says Horrobin, is irrelevant since such surveys have measured only the incidence of cancer...
Pierre Cardin wallpaper. Gloria Vanderbilt sweatsuits. Calvin Klein denim diaper covers. The designer craze has made flauntable fashions more commonplace than chic. Now Louis Vuitton, the French maker of luxury luggage, has concluded that many self-respecting snobs may prefer more subtlety. This fall Vuitton will introduce a new line of trunks and suitcases that do not have its famous LV initials sprinkled across the covering fabric...