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Businesses and foundations, which together account for only 10% of all U.S. philanthropy, are being pressed hard for greater generosity. Says Eugene Wilson, executive director of the Atlantic Richfield Foundation: "New people are calling us, and we're getting requests for double and triple the dollars from organizations we've funded in the past." Boston's Digital Equipment Corp., among many companies, is similarly besieged, with a doubling of grant requests since March...
...shied away from the daunting task of edging the journal back from the brink of extinction. Just last year, Harper's announced it was folding, then was rescued at the eleventh hour through the combined efforts of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Atlantic Richfield Foundation. The magazine's saviors have so far pumped in an estimated $3 million, but its prospects remain clouded. Kinsley, who will take charge of the journal with next January's issue, confesses he has "a lot of little ideas, but no grand scheme." Still, he made...
...deposit it across the street. Oil-rich Kuwait has done the same thing, only it took $4 billion with it. New York's Citibank had managed investment funds for Kuwait since 1974, putting nearly $4 billion into stocks of about 350 U.S. companies, including AT&T, Atlantic Richfield and Phillips Petroleum...
...their only chance to transport equipment too large to be carried by airplane or truck from Anchorage, more than 600 miles to the south. In 1975, when the entire fleet was trapped in the ice, the scheduled opening of the trans-Alaska oil pipeline was threatened. This year Atlantic Richfield's Arco unit is relying on the convoy to deliver machinery needed to begin drilling on the Kuparuk oilfield, 40 miles west of Prudhoe Bay. If it does not arrive safely, the lower 48 states will lose | the 80,000 bbl. of oil per day that the field...
DIED. William Keeler, 53, president of the ARCO Oil & Gas Co., a major subsidiary of the $24 billion Atlantic Richfield Co.; of wounds received when he and his wife were shotgunned to death by their son David, 14; in Dallas. Police speculated that David, an honor student at the exclusive St. Mark's School of Texas, may have killed his parents during a quarrel over his expulsion from an amusement park the previous day on suspicion of shoplifting...