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Some investments approach that ideal. Allstate Insurance Co.'s private placement division maintained a growth rate of 40% a year during most of the 1960s by making prescient purchases in such companies as Memorex, Teledyne and Control Data. Chicago Financier E.F. ("Ned") Heizer has put his Heizer Corp. into a 32% ownership of Amdahl Corp., a computer maker that has booked $30 million of orders in its first year of production. The biggest hit of all was made by former Harvard Business School Professor Georges F. Doriot, who launched American Research and Development Corp. in 1946 as the nation...
...Neal, Charles Cioffi, who appeared as the,villain in Klute and the beleaguered cop in Shaft, continues to display a chameleon-like facility. Austin Pendelton as a chess master driven to fits of impotent violence by O'Neal's computerized skill at the game, Ned Beatty as a fast-talking fence and rabid family man ("My boys are gonna grow up goddam fine or I'm gonna know the reason why!"), and Gregory Sierra as a punchy Mexican boxer and amateur booster-all lavish the kind of care on their roles that goes beyond the call...
...copies in paperback and is currently selling at a rate of 16,000 copies a week. But Castaneda's books are not drug propaganda, and now the middle-class middlebrows have taken him up. Ixtlan is a hardback bestseller, and its paperback sales, according to Castaneda's agent Ned Brown, will make its author a millionaire...
...really condemn or praise, but as Tom Brown, Anthony Murphy manages the very difficult task of not jarring any preconceived notions about what Tom should be like that someone who's read the book might bring to the program. He and Simon Turner, who plays Tom's chum, Ned East, are both remarkably unmannered and seem very comfortable in their roles...
...jeering died down, and Cliff McDonald of South Boston was ushered out under bombardment from irate boxing fans after winning a tainted ten round decision over Ned Edwards of Long Island, the closed circuit T.V. screens were lowered for the feature bout...