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...familiar plot, O'Neill takes the ancient Greek legend of Electra and sets it in the weeks following V-J Day. Ezra Mannon returns home from the war only to be killed by his wife Christine in collusion with her lover. Daughter Vinnie and son Orin work their revenge. Like the House of Atreus, three generations of Mannons are cursed. O'Neill's insistence on parallels is at times heavy handed, though. The main characters' names, for instance, mimic too closely their Greek counterparts. Ezra Mannon for Agammemnon, Christine for Clytemnestra, and Orin for Orestes are unnecessary hints...
Company Chairman Orin E. Atkins first became interested in the project two years ago because he feared that many young people knew almost nothing about corporate America. Says Atkins: "Business is probably the most dynamic part of our society, and it's all too often misunderstood. The younger generation doesn't know anything about it at all." Reflecting the language of its young readers, Ashland says that initial response to the report has been "outasight...
...eyed about our interests and the situations we are getting into when we use our military power. It should not have taught us that we should never use our power. We should be very careful about doctrinaire answers or lessons-either that we should have intervened anywhere, any time orin response to our Viet Nam experience-that we should not intervene anywhere any time...
...though the company's inventories are all but overflowing. Ashland executives had no firm idea of what to do with the shipment, though they hinted that they might try to resell it in the coming weeks at an even higher price than they paid for it. Says Chairman Orin Atkins, who tends to get so distracted by corporate affairs of state that he forgets to remove his black homburg while being zipped about in the company jet: "What is good for Ashland Oil is good for the country...
...demanded that the offenders promise to stop violating U.S. securities laws by concealing illegal contributions in their reports to the SEC and the public. Most companies let the matter drop at that point. Some exceptions: Ashland Oil chose to make Chairman Orin Atkins and two other executives pay the company $325,000 from their own pockets, and 3M got several officers, including former Chairmen Bert Cross and Harry Heltzer, to give back $480,000. Thomas V. Jones resigned as chairman of Northrop and is supposed to be replaced as president no later than June 16; after that...