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...company operates two chains of stores: the 1,400 MAJIK "convenience" stores (open late into the night) and 90 World Bazaar stores selling imported goods. Even so Munford ranks behind two other Southern-based firms in both major areas of its business. The biggest convenience-store chain is Southland (the 7-Eleven stores) based in Dallas; the biggest import chain is Pier 1 with head offices in Fort Worth...
With so much going for it, Aztec became a ripe candidate for takeover by other companies. The first attempt came on Jan. 2: Mesa Petroleum offered Aztec shareholders $22 a share. Aztec executives resisted, saying that the offer was too low. Aztec solicited other suitors, among them Southland Royalty Co. and Houston Natural Gas, which between them shoved the bidding to $32. Then Houston dropped out, leaving Aztec to Southland, a Fort Worth oil and gas distributor with annual revenues of $65 million. At week's end at least 90% of Aztec's shares had been tendered...
Selling Stamps. This week another group, the National Wildlife Federation, is announcing a similar marketing program aimed at children. For the next four months, Southland Corp.'s 7-Eleven food stores will contribute to the federation 1? from the sale of each 250 Slurpee, a crushed-ice drink in a cup featuring drawings by Wildlife Artist Charles Ripper. The federation will use the money to buy an 835-acre area in South Dakota currently home for 15% of the surviving American bald eagles; the land will then become a preserve under the jurisdiction of the Department of Interior...
...brand-new breeze is blowin' cross the southland...
...minorities: Switzerland's Jura separatists, Sweden's Lapps, Rumania's Transylvanian Hungarians, France's Bretons and Corsicans, Spain's Basques, and myriad ethnic groups of Italy-the German-and French-speaking pockets in the north and the Sicilians and Sardinians in the arid mezzogiorno (southland...