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...willing to haggle some more on money. On the other two issues, they feel that they cannot afford to yield. No one gets more than a one-year contract in baseball, largely because it is impossible to know how long any player will last. As for the tandem negotiating, Dodgers Owner Walter O'Malley says...
Jeff Huvelle was a third place finisher in the 600, behind the favored tandem of Cornell's Bill Bruckle and Yale's Mark Young. Bruckle's winning time of 1:11.5 beat Huvelle by a full second...
...explosives to flush the Viet Cong from their tunnels, leveling whole forest areas to chop snipers from the trees. Turning the tables, crack Marine sharpshooters are now carrying hunting rifles equipped with telescopic sights able to zero in on guerrillas from afar. B-52s have begun making tandem runs over Viet Cong tunnel areas, first with deep-penetration bombs that bore into the earth, then with a second wave of conventional bombs that destroy the surfaced enemy. Whenever and however he can be found, the Viet Cong is suffering increasing casualties. Last week nearly 1,500 were killed in several...
...Brower and Beckett have run Transamerica's conglomerate bundle of businesses "in tandem," as Beckett likes to put it. Salesman Brower, who will stay on in a less active role as Transamerica's chairman, has concentrated on operating Los Angeles-based Occidental Life. Beckett, a former stockbroker, has run the rest of Transamerica's interests out of an incongruously tiny (30 employees) headquarters in an unprepossessing old building near San Francisco's nightclub belt. He spends nearly half his time jetting around Transamerica's expanding realm, likes to ask fellow air passengers what they think...
...Tandem. Today, Transamerica has resources of $2.3 billion, controls 20 major subsidiaries, has offices in all 50 states, France and Canada. It has 14,000 employees, more than 100,000 stockholders and 7,000,000 customers. It writes nearly every kind of insurance through 15 subsidiaries, including Occidental Life Insurance Co., the ninth largest insurers in North America, leases autos and plant equipment, offers consumer-finance and mortgage banking, develops real estate. It is scouting for a mutual fund and a savings and loan association with an eye to further improving its profits-which reached $39 million last year...