In a day when U.S. business is typified and dominated by such publicly owned giants as General Motors, prof its are also pouring into the coffers of quite a different kind of company: the family-owned firm. Many big and brawny U.S. companies are still family-owned-and have no intention of shar ing with outsiders their hard-earned prestige or profits. They tower in fields as varied as mining, retailing, proprietary drugs and investment banking, and turn out such well-known products as S. &H. Green Stamps, Caloric ranges, Johnson's Wax, Mennen toiletries, Ex-Lax and Old Fitzgerald-the last of which has a president...
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