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Through SUMARK Corporation, Spitz conducts a growing firm with interests in construction, development and investment. The investment division, which Spitz owns completely, includes large real estate holdings in California, Hawaii, and Texas. He spends most of his time managing this particular sector of SUMARK where he capitalizes on self-taught business skills...
Arco's smart managers seem to be making quite a gamble. Ovshinsky is a self-taught physicist without a college degree. ECD, which he founded in 1960, has never had a commercial success, has had only one profitable year (1964) and last year lost $3.4 million (on revenues of $1.6 million, largely from Arco funding for the solar project). The company's over-the-counter stock price has fluctuated sharply. One high came in 1968, after Ovshinsky said in a highly publicized news conference that his research would "transform" the electronics industry...
...least three years of formal education as a child-a stint that was not unusually short in the rural Ohio and Michigan of his youth. As a budding inventor, he also attended classes in chemistry at New York City's Cooper Union after realizing that his self-taught knowledge of that science was inadequate...
...also hilarious, especially as it bounces off Paul Dooley's expert exasperation as his dad and the wry, wise patience of Barbara Barrie's lovely performance as his mother. But the kid is not totally off the wall. It turns out that he is a talented, self-taught bicycle racer and that his fondness for things Italiano is really a reflection of his admiration for that nation's pre-eminence in the sport. Cycling becomes more than a pastime for him. It becomes the thing around which he begins to organize his life, giving him a sense...
Walter Levy, 67, is the dean of petroleum consultants, a self-taught economist, tax expert and political scientist who advises oil companies and governments...