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Much of this year's action has centered on such volatile-or promising-stocks as American Motors, Allis-Chalmers, Chrysler, Flying Tiger, Occidental Petroleum and Pan American Airways. The hotter the stock, the more costly the call-sometimes as much as 20% of its current value. In its last...
Died. Robert Hans van Gulik, 57, Dutch creator of the Judge Dee Chinese mystery tales (The Willow Pattern, Murder in Canton); of cancer; in The Hague. An Orientalist by training and an ambassador by trade (to Japan, Malaysia), van Gulik was studying ancient Asian prose when he found the classic...
(2 of 10) however, the quest for funds is a matter of life and death. "The less well-endowed university," says Brewster, "is literally finding its back to the wall as it tries to be competitive in faculty, facilities and programs." Occidental President Richard C. Gilman, while confident that his...
To keep the advantage of surprise, bidders like to pounce on Sundays (all it takes is a press release and an order for an ad in the next day's paper), when the management of the attacked company is unready to hit back. "The first I heard of this...
Yet a new focus on the importance of living may well ease the fear of dying. The new eschatology, contends Calvinist Scholar Franklyn Josselyn of Los Angeles' Occidental College, can offer man "a means of looking at death honestly and with courage. It frees man to have faith that...