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Senior Jiggetts, the All-American grid ace for the 1975 Ivy football champs, made a mockery of matters in the weight throw. The mammoth chucker unloaded a 61 ft. 8 1/2 in. hurl to top the tossing pack...
...built conglomerate empires from scratch in the 1960s, James Derrick Slater endured the longest. Americans like James Ling (Ling-Temco-Vought), Bernie Cornfeld (Investors Overseas Services) and John King (King Resources) saw their corporate houses of cards collapse around them, but England's merger lord and his mammoth Slater, Walker Securities Ltd. seemed to grow more prosperous every year. Now Slater, 46, has also had his comeuppance, His company's role in alleged fiscal improprieties is under investigation in Hong Kong and Singapore; he has resigned as chairman of Slater, Walker and gone into seclusion. Last week...
...train now, in the shadow of a mammoth factory; next on a darkened street outside a warehouse at a coffee counter. Third refill costs a nickel. He wanders into a warehouse, following a noise. Through dark passageways of pipes and crate to an open space. It is a street fight, two sleek men clutching bills and taking bets, two bare-chested bruisers facing each other, brown ill-fitting suits and anxious Depression faces crowded around the bare floor that serves as a ring. The bets are in, the bruisers battle: it's no holds barred-kicking, hair-pulling, and annihilating...
EVEN JOYCE MAYNARD couldn't have chosen a better scenario. In 1969 the U.S. Forest Service announced its approval of a plan for a mammoth, year-round resort in California's Mineral King valley, 16,000 acres of national forest land high in the southern Sierra Nevada. Controversy erupts, fueled by the public's revived awareness of environmental abuse. Behind the contested $35-40 million project is not ITT but the corporation created by a childhood exemplar of the Leave-It-to-Beaver generation--the father of Bugs Bunny and Donald Duck, Walt Disney. Thus fell another idol of Maynard...
...capital between now and 1985 will amount to more than $4.5 trillion. He anticipates particular demand growth in the field of energy production, with heavy requirements also seen for business efforts to meet government clean air and water and occupational health and safety standards. But if one breaks that mammoth number down into year by year figures, with allowances for inflation and for economic growth between now and 1985, $4.5 trillion is not quite so scary. Even a Simon ally, Federal Reserve Board member Henry Wallich, admits that the likely investment demands will rise only one percentage point of total...