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...trust your car to the man who wears the star," promise those familiar Texaco ads hailing the supposed virtues of the crisply uniformed gas station attendant. Yet more and more these days, American motorists find that pulling into a gas station can be a lonely experience-no smiling greeting, no wipe of the windshield, all too often not even an attendant. Sometimes indeed the station itself has disappeared, its facilities closed up entirely or transformed into animal hospitals, used-car lots or fruit stands...
...Texaco in return for that company's promise to charter two even larger Onassis ships at a later date. Most important, Christina is bringing new blood into a firm long dominated by sawy-but-aging Onassis advisers in their 60s and 70s. In June she hired Louis Anderson, 48, a Greek American who had run Exxon's marine operations since 1970, to boss Olympic Maritime S.A., the Onassis fleet's operational brain center, which is headquartered in a three-story building in Monte Carlo...
Auto companies did best of all; the four in the list raised their median profit by 138.5%, despite another huge loss for American Motors. General Motors regained its historic role as the No. 1 profitmaker,* topping Exxon $2.9 billion to $2.6 billion, and Ford bumped Texaco out of third place in sales, $28.8 billion to $26.5 billion. Oil companies, however, did well too. Exxon led in sales for the third straight year, with $48.6 billion; Gulf Oil (sales: $16.5 billion) knocked IBM ($16.3 billion) out of seventh place, and Shell ($9.2 billion) displaced U.S. Steel ($8.6 billion...
...decision announced last Saturday ended the three-day occupation of administrative offices by students who were protesting the college's ownership of $39,000 worth of stock in Exxon, Clarke Equipment, International Harvester Inc., and Texaco...
...Texaco stock cannot be sold due to donor restrictions, Longsworth said...