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OCCIDENTAL ARTISTS--poets, painters and professors--have claimed Originality as a blessing and curse unique to Western creativity. The Western world commonly thinks of Chinese painting as a matter of historical course, a succession of repeating patterns and traditions. But the exhibit of Chinese master paintings at the Fogg: Studies...
Reasons for Optimism. Despite all the doomsday talk, there were some compelling reasons for optimism. British Petroleum, the oil giant that is 48% government-owned, announced that unexpectedly good geological conditions in the North Sea's largest field have enabled the company to increase its production schedule by 25...
She was the Roman goddess of wealth and marriage, and it took plenty of the former before Armand Hammer, 78, could latch on to Rembrandt's Juno. The perdurable Occidental Petroleum Corp. chairman, who recently received a $3,000 fine for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign...
So Hammer, active chairman of Occidental Petroleum, and his wife Francis, came to the Fogg yesterday with the painting, and the publicity and the needless security risks. And everybody had a very good time.
Although Hammer is far past traditional retirement age, William McSweeny, president of Occidental International, who accompanied the Hammers on their trip said, when asked whether Hammer still runs the show at Occidental, "You bet your life, he does."