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Securities and Exchange Commission Chairman Harold Williams told the Rosenthal subcommittee that the SEC was investigating the relationship between the Hunt family and Bache Group Inc. Bunker Hunt and his brother own 6.5% of Bache, and did much of their trading through the firm. The brothers, for example, failed to disclose to the SEC, as required by law, that they owned more than 5% of a publicly traded company...
...Chicago suburbanite who is all too routinely exposed to 8-in. snowfalls forecast the night before as "possible flurries," I have always been annoyed by the amount of time devoted to a weather report of doubtful reliability. I, for one. would happily settle for 30 sec. or less of: "As far as I can tell, tomorrow's weather will...
Miller's troubles stem from events in the early 1970s, when he was president and then chairman of Textron Inc., a multibillion-dollar conglomerate. During his confirmation hearings, Miller declared flatly: "My company did not bribe anybody." In January, however, a lengthy SEC report charged that Bell Helicopter, a Textron division, had paid off a number of officials abroad, as it did in Iran, in order to obtain military contracts. Responding to this new evidence, Miller has adamantly maintained that he was innocent of perjury because he knew nothing of the bribes...
Goodell and Smith were the high scorers, tallying 3 wins apiece. Cal placed 24 members into the finals, USC 22, Florida 24, Tennessee 22, and UCLA 19. The Pac-10 advanced 76 finalists, the SEC 70. The evenly-matched qualities of the two conferences is underscored when one considers the Pac-10 scored 772 points and the SEC...
...still photography; while nearly all homes have a still camera, only about one-quarter have movie cameras. Polavision was also expensive and the picture quality often poor. The camera and a small viewer that looks like a TV screen cost $675, plus $9.95 for a 2-min. 40-sec. film cartridge. The product never took hold despite heavy promotion. Some officials within the company opposed Polavision, but Land, who applied for his first patent on the process in 1946, insisted on its development...