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There were some limits to the delegates' temerity: they rejected a proposal to delete from union statutes a key phrase recognizing the Communist Party's "leading role" in national affairs. But then such expunging hardly seemed necessary. The convention had already challenged the party's monopoly of...
When McDonald's golden arches appeared in Paris nine years ago, the fast-food chain seemed to acquire a new international cachet. What better testimony to its cuisine than crowds of finicky Frenchmen munching Big Macs along the Champs Elysees?
In 1937 Nixon, a determined and solitary young man nicknamed Gloomy Gus by his classmates, graduated third in his class from Duke Law School. He was never Duke's most popular alumnus on campus; in 1954, when he was Vice President of the U.S., the faculty voted against awarding...
That tactic was used two months ago by Canada's Dome Petroleum to acquire a 52.9% interest in Hudson's Bay Oil and Gas, a Canadian firm controlled by Conoco. Stripped of its Canadian holdings, Conoco became a takeover target and wound up being acquired by Du Pont...
Those smaller oil firms can be expected to fight just as hard as Conoco to stay out of the hands of the larger energy companies. Said Bailey last week: "Had Mobil been permitted to acquire Conoco, there would have been other such mergers initiated by the major oil companies. A...