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Battles are under way for control of Twentieth Century Fox, Universal Container, Ozark Airlines, Midas International and other major companies. In many instances, the attackers are not professional raiders but insiders-men who sold their firms for stock in big companies during the heady 1960s, then watched in dismay as...
Bernard Cornfeld, the Midas of mutual funds, recently jetted to Acapulco for a summit conference with Hugh Hefner. Naturally, both were accompanied by aides, mostly female. While Hefner's playmates competed with Bernie's bunnies for poolside attention, the two middle-aged millionaires discussed the possibility of combining...
A ONETIME poor boy from Brooklyn, 5-ft. 5-in. Bernard Cornfeld causes quite a stir in almost everything he does. Despite the persistent antagonism of conservative European moneymen, some foreign governments and the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, he has built his Investors Overseas Services into one of the...
Antiwar sentiment was not nearly so pronounced in the Midwest. In Chicago, TIME Correspondent Sam Iker stopped 16 people at random in the street, and discovered that just two had some idea of what the Moratorium was about. The only Chicago businesses that planned to close were nine art galleries...
The Focal Point. None of these problems invalidates the French theory. Film has all but replaced the novel as the chief topic of cultural talk on the campus and at many cocktail parties. Audiences as well as critics need someone to praise or blame for the total product. Given that...