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...bankers; but when Ling fell, he left a trail of tottering companies, broken careers and distraught investors. Jimmy Ling himself has salvaged several million dollars out of a fortune that once was about $70 million. He has started another budding conglomerate, with the symbolic ending-to-beginning name of Omega-Alpha. Its stock came out a year ago at 5½ and has lately fallen to 2½. Ling has not lost his confidence, however. After all, he is only 49 years old. ∎Marshall Loeb

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Paying the Pied Piper | 9/4/1972 | See Source »

Dirty Harry--A hack detective thriller directed by the talented Don Siegel from a script laden with authoritarian preaching. Clint Eastwood, perhaps the least talented superstar of all time, is Harry. With The Omega Mess, Charlton Heston in humdrum sci-fi. ASTOR. Harry: 1:15, 4:40. Omega...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: the screen | 7/18/1972 | See Source »

...even a few* -for the lion's share of the honors? The question is particularly pertinent for high-energy physics. In 1964, for example, it took no fewer than 33 scientists, operating the large Brookhaven atom smasher, to discover another fleeting bit of matter-the omega-minus particle...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Prize | 7/3/1972 | See Source »

...crystal watch for $125. Hamilton came out with its $2,100 quartz-crystal Pulsar, and last month Japan's Seiko brought its three quartz timepieces to the U.S., the cheapest selling for $450. This week Benrus will introduce the first quartz watch for women. Among the Swiss companies, Omega, Piaget, Girard Perregaux and Longines are selling quartz watches at prices from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MARKETING: The World Watch War | 6/19/1972 | See Source »

...modular navigation) and Collins' ANS-70, which can store and read out voluminous information, including navigational data on an airline's entire route structure. These advanced systems are also adaptable to such future navigation aids as satellite systems and the Navy's low-frequency, long-range Omega network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Expressways in the Sky | 5/29/1972 | See Source »

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