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To his colleagues at the bank, he was unquestionably a whiz at finance, but around the office he seemed to some more like a human buzz saw-pugnacious, cutting, even on occasion rude. Yet apparently the very qualities that wound up costing A. Robert Abboud, 51, his post in April...
Occidental's aged, autocratic chairman, Armand Hammer, 82, shoved aside the president he had installed only last year, Hungarian-born Zoltan Merszei, 57, an effective but sometimes abrasive former chairman of the Dow Chemical Co., and replaced him with Abboud. The ex-banker thus became the fifth man tapped...
Provincial by Western standards, the artists whose work was vandalized by the state at Cheremushki may not have been of high interest, outside the U.S.S.R., to a historian of style; it was as though the New York City police had been sent to crush one of the weekend art shows...
Indecisiveness also characterized two other votes of the Corporation. It faced a proxy calling on Atlantic Richfield Company to halt its expansion in Chile until the Pinochet government loosens its restrictions on civil rights, and another committing Occidental Petroleum--the parent company of the polluter of the Love Canal--to...
The relative inexperience of the team was apparent during their recent spring western trip. Unable to defeat national powers Pepperdine, Washington, California Tech and California State at Long Beach, the squad returned home with a 2-4 record, chalking up victories against the players of Redlands and Occidental Colleges.