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...stockholder who disagreed with Levin was Edgar Bronfman, who bought into MGM and then sold off his holdings in 1966 on a misplaced hunch that if Levin's proxy battles failed, the stock would settle down in price. After the last proxy fight, Bronfman began to buy back in. He had acquired over 400,000 shares when he was approached this summer by Levin, who wanted to buy Bronfman's stock or get his aid in another proxy fight. When Bronfman refused both propositions, Levin decided to sell. He will make a pre-tax profit of more than...
...toward automation "will excise the soul from farming, destroy its joy, dull its satisfactions and chill the ageless intimacy between man and his land." This view notwithstanding, most farmers welcome machine-age relief from what Dr. Joseph Ackerman, managing director of Chicago's Farm Foundation, calls "farming by hunch and the Farmer's Almanac...
...lessen the burden in 1967. Because it is the 50th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution, they figure that Communist authorities will take pains to avoid an open clash with the intellectual community, and may even be moved to lift some restrictions on their freedom. Whether or not their hunch is right, the intellectuals have been making some unusually outspoken protests against repressive government policies, particularly in literature and the theater...
...American Stock Exchange's 573 members, President Ralph Saul last week bluntly warned that "market conditions indicate a serious level of speculative activity." Calling for "firm sales policies and procedures" to spare the public from hazardous stock purchases, he lectured: "Expectations of quick riches based on hunch or rumor provide an unsound reason for investment decisions." The reason for Saul's concern was a surge of trading at the exchange that pushed both prices and volume to alarming heights...
...cause" on a variety of specific grounds, such as opposing the death penalty in capital cases or simply admitting prejudice against either side. Because bias is hard to prove, both sides can also invoke a limited number of "peremptory" challenges (no explanation needed) that eliminate jurors on the merest hunch or suspicion of prejudice. Thus jurors may be rejected, rather than selected, in hopes that the twelve survivors are indeed biased-in favor of either side...