Five years ago Manhattan's Rupert T. Zickl, 59, went into Virginia-Carolina Chemical Corp. as a management consultant to help get its business squared away. Consultant Zickl, now a vice president of Bartram Bros. Corp., a director of V-C and owner of 17,500 shares of common stock, soon decided what was wrong with the $33 million fertilizer and chemical company. It was the management. Last week, by a vote of almost 2 to 1 at a special meeting in Richmond, Va., Zickl's independent stockholders' group ousted President Joseph A. Howell and five other directors from the board, took over a...
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