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SIX times in the past six months, a grandfatherly, supremely confident executive has swooped into Moscow aboard his private Gulfstream jet for talks with the highest Soviet trade officials. This week Armand Hammer, the 74-year-old chairman of Los Angeles' Occidental Petroleum, is scheduled to fly there again...
If Hammer succeeds, he will give a spectacular push to the movement toward greater trade between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. In particular, his version of a plan to import vast quantities of Siberian gas may eventually help relieve the American energy shortage. But a growing legion of skeptics...
>Heart disease, the major cause of death in the U.S. Doctors have yet to establish conclusively that a rich, fatty diet is responsible for heart attacks, but the statistical case is strong, and not only in the U.S. In Germany, the rising death rate from complications of high blood pressure...
"IT'S LIKE A DREAM to be in Tokyo," the grandmother remarks upon arrival. "I never realized it was so close." These words imply how Ozu illustrates the incipient disintegration of the Japanese family system. Tempo, life-style, mood and environment are so different in Tokyo, that the short train...
Now that U.S. trade with the Soviet Union and most other Communist nations is running at the highest level since World War II, many well-known companies are getting into the act: Occidental Petroleum, Boeing, ITT, Tenneco, Texas Eastern Transmission and dozens of others. But there are smaller, independent toilers...