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Sperry Rand Corp. produces a range of goods from hay balers and electric shavers to gyroscopes and Univac computers, but lately it seems to be turning out people faster than anything else. The first notable exit was staged last fall by George M. Bunker, whose Martin Marietta Corp. had bought 800,000 Sperry shares with a view toward a merger that both companies appeared to want. Soon discovering that he could not get along with Sperry's top management, Bunker resigned as a director and sold off Martin's shares in what was the biggest single liquidation...
...funds have already slipped back across the border, are being used by United Comstock Lode Lines to reopen the dormant Comstock gold mine in Nevada. Among the half dozen new millionaires at Timmins, 28-year-old Pat Giardine made a killing on both his claims and controlling interest in Bunker Hill Extension Mines - which he had bought for a song...
...talked for 90 minutes, with Walter Cronkite getting a word in occasionally. He talked from a Jeep while he drove it; he talked from the deck of a British frigate; he talked from the window of a German observation bunker; he described the greatest show in military history from plan to execution. Often almost professionally vague as President, Eisenhower as Commanding General was a man of self-assurance and enthusiasm, reeled off statistics with computer ease, and often, as he gestured toward empty stretches of beach or water, film clips would appear, showing the precise scene 20 years earlier, jammed...
Died. Arthur Hugh Bunker, 68, retired chairman since 1960 of American Metal Climax, and younger brother of Ellsworth Bunker, U.S. ambassador to the OAS, a kinetic, foresighted businessman who dabbled successfully in fields as diverse as oil speculating and orchid growing (at one time he owned one of the world's largest orchid nurseries), but found his niche among rare metals, promoting new uses for radium in medicine, new processes for extracting vanadium (a steel strengthener) and new markets for molybdenum, a high-strength metal of the jet age; of leukemia; in Manhattan...
...Bunker claimed that civil rights issues should properly be handled by the states. He said that the legislation favored by Kennedy tended to centralize power is the federal government and make it potentially easier for the internal Communist conspiracy to effect a coup d'etat and control the political life of the United States from Washington...