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Most of the characteristics that distinguish the Basques of Spain are mysterious. In vain, linguists have studied their tongue-trilling language, still spoken by a million Basques, for similarity to any other recorded speech. Medical researchers are still at a loss to explain why proportionately more Basques carry the Rh-negative blood factor than any other people. But since the days of ancient Rome, anyone who tried to subjugate the people of Euzkadi, or Basque Land, has quickly learned one fact about them: the Basques want to govern themselves. Finally brought under Spanish and French domination in the 19th century...
...largest and best-known brokerage house, of practicing fraud and deceit by misusing inside information. Even though Merrill Lynch immediately protested its innocence, the charges by their very nature can only tarnish Wall Street's zealously nurtured image. That image is of a market where 24 million investors can trade with confidence that they are not being cheated...
...Saddle Sores. Oppenheimer deals in cattle and feed transactions that last year amounted to $15 million and yielded nearly $1,000,000 in fees and commissions. He caters to a solvent and not exactly saddle-sore clientele (among past and present customers: Banker Robert Lehman, Comedian Jack Benny, Actress Joan Fontaine). For would-be instant cattlemen, Oppenheimer will assemble a herd, buy a spread, hire a manager and oversee the whole operation. "Real crapshooters," as Oppenheimer calls clients who are able and willing to win or lose as much as 50% on their money in a single year...
Dayton's hallmark that has paid off for the company as a whole. Last year Dayton's had sales of $265,507,000 and profits of $9,587,000, a gain of some 17% over the previous year. It expects to increase its sales by $100 million during fiscal...
Retired Mouth. As Talent Associates' president, Susskind shares that expec tation. Privately held by himself and two equal partners, Daniel Melnick and Leonard Stern, the company had rev enues last year of about $15 million, and its profits were in "the seven-figure category." That was a vast improvement over past years, when Talent Associ ates suffered in no small part because of its voluble boss's knack for alien ating network brass. But Susskind has learned to confine his contrariness large ly to his still running TV talk show...