Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...WHAT, WHEN, WHERE, WHY (CBS, 10-10:30 p.m.). In "Once Upon a Wall," Luigi Barzini reports on the 1966 flood damage to the Florence frescoes and the restoration work that has been done...
...offers he received from private business after last Nov. 5 would have meant putting himself out to pasture. The green was all but irresistible; some of the proffered posts would have made him instantly wealthy. They included the presidencies of an international-development firm, two Wall Street brokerage houses and a major mutual fund. But all of them would have precluded further political activity. The most remarkable offer, however, came from the American who probably senses more keenly than any other a defeated candidate's need to work for the future as well as the present. Richard M. Nixon...
...weekend home in Stuttgart. Over glasses of light Swabian wine, the two men chatted amiably as the Soviet diplomat explained a way out for both sides. If the West Germans would withdraw the Federal Assembly from West Berlin, the East Germans would allow West Berliners to pass through the Wall during the Easter holidays to visit relatives in East Berlin, the first such passage permitted in three years...
...those acquisitions must be operated profitably. And it isn't easy to find the management." Conglomerates must cope with the problems of maturity ? the inevitable day when the pace of expansion slackens. Then, without the continuous growth-through-merger that has too often been the basis of their Wall Street appeal, the conglomerates will be come indistinguishable from such traditional multi-industry companies as General Electric. Only then will come the real test of whether they can survive and prosper. The conglomerates may indeed already be the corporate archetype of the future. They have yet to prove...
...Resorts International, a onetime paintmaking company whose primary asset is a Bahamas gambling casino and a few hotels. Resorts' total assets are about a quarter the size of Pan Am's, but through a complex swap of securities, Resorts may become a major Pan Am stockholder. Last month Wall Street rumors whispered that U.S. Steel, with its $5.6 billion assets, was on several lists of takeover targets. The company has revamped its bookkeeping, as have many other steel companies, to increase reported earnings in an obvious effort to fend