Word: pittsburghs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pittsburgh's Duquesne Club, where steelmen gather for grub and gossip, few names have stoked tempers faster than that of Norton Simon. The California industrialist, who uses his Hunt Foods & Industries, Inc. as a corporate base for buying into other companies
Last week, however, Simon was the toast of Pittsburgh. Reason: he had moved to head off a takeover by somebody else. For two weeks, Crucible Steel, a specialty company with $300 million annual sales in alloys, stainless, tool and carbon steels, had been one of Wall Street's most active stocks; Crucible's stock fluctuated over a ten-point range. Then the reason came clear. Headed by Chicago Industrialist Morris J. Rubin, who helped engineer a takeover 21 months ago of the U.S. Smelting, Refining & Mining Co., a Crucible-minded "Stockholders Committee for Better Management" was buying Crucible...
...Impressed by the way in which Simon had moved in to improve Wheeling, Canada Dry and McCall Corp., Hunter proposed that Simon-who knows the corporate-acquisition route better than he knows the way home from his own office-help block the invaders. Simon, on advice of friends at Pittsburgh's influential Mellon National Bank, accepted the invitation. Three Crucible directors stepped aside to make way for Simon men. Simon himself became Crucible's finance com mittee chairman...
Though men have observed and recorded thousands of lunar and solar eclipses since the beginning of history, no one has ever reported watching one star-other than the sun-eclipse an other. If any scientists have been awaiting such an event, says University of Pittsburgh Physicist Walter Feibelman, they need be patient for only another 22 years. In 1988, he reports in the current issue of Science, the path of star 40 Eridani-A-only 16 light-years from the solar system-should take it directly between the earth and a remote, as yet unnamed star he calls X, which...
...events has been repealed-but the customer will find little difference in the price of tickets. The Broadway theater owners are an exception-orchestra seats for Hello, Dolly! will drop from $9.90 to $9.10, for Golden Boy from $9.90 to $9.50. But most entertainment types will be like the Pittsburgh movie-theater manager who moans, "It's been a hard go for us with TV and all." What he means is that he is keeping the price the same and pocketing the 10% cut. The repeal of the 20% admission tax at race tracks will mean a drop from...