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A tall man with twinkling eyes, an impish grin and a boyish exuberance, Bill joined TIME's Los Angeles bureau in 1957, not long after graduating from Occidental College and Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism. He opened a bureau for us in Anchorage in 1958 and later served...
Wood is also concerned, as are many other educators, about the problem of attracting -- and keeping -- minority students. According to the Congressional Budget Office, blacks and Hispanics were only half as likely as whites to have completed four or more years of college in 1990. Probably no school has given...
The constant shuffling raised suspicion that Iacocca had no real plan for stepping down but rather, as a bemused insider put it, "wanted to beat Armand Hammer's record" for executive longevity. (Hammer died in 1990 at 92, still at the helm of Occidental Petroleum.)
Power and Piety: The Political Dimensions of Religion in Latin America--with Margaret Crahan, Luce professor of religion, power and politics at Occidental College. At noon in room 2 at Coolidge Hall.
As chairman of Occidental -- an ailing oil company he took over in 1957 and turned into a going concern throughout the 1960s and '70s -- Hammer circulated tirelessly between the U.S. and the Soviet Union on the corporate jet, arranging "cultural exchanges" that were more show than tell. Somehow one could...