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...management of the attacked company is unready to hit back. "The first I heard of this raid was at my golf club," spluttered President Dwight M. Cochran of Kern County Land Co. after Occidental Petroleum's bitterly contested two-step offer last month to buy 23% of his asset-laden oil and farming firm. With such tactics, a group of Detroit financiers led by Donald H. Parsons, 36, has taken over five Michigan banks in the past year and forced American Metal Products into a merger with Lear-Siegler. Last week the Parsons group snared a sixth bank...
Musty & Misty. By contrast, much of the Royal Ballet production looked musty as well as misty. Yet in the fervent fluidity of their corps de ballet, and particularly in the incandescent performances of Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn, the Londoners had an asset that the Ballet Theater version, ably danced as it was, could not match. Dame Margot, 48 this week, has distilled the Odette-Odile role to a consummate purity. She did not seem to project it so much as to be devoured by it, until it was almost impossible, in Yeats's words, to "know the dancer from...
...wife of Soviet Premier Aleksei N. Kosygin who married him in 1924 when Kosygin was a young engineer at a consumers' cooperative in Siberia, later proved considerably different from the usual run of dowdy Kremlin wives as a well-dressed and charmingly talkative (in fluent French) diplomatic asset; of cancer; in Moscow...
Divorced. Daniel B. Brewster, 43, Democratic U.S. Senator from Maryland; by Carol Leiper Brewster, 50, Baltimore socialite and notable cam paign asset to her husband; by mutual consent; after twelve years of marriage, two children; in Juarez, Mexico. This week Brewster plans to marry Anne Bullitt Biddle, daughter of the late Ambassador William C. Bullitt, and divorced wife of Nicholas Biddle...
...pretentious is bad, but in photography it is especially so because of the credibility of photography. We believe that it is a process which gives us a picture of something that existed, as it existed. Tricks and effects that destroy the credibility destroy the art's most valuable asset...