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...Avon Products agreed in December to buy Mallinckrodt for $50 a share, 45% above the price of Mallinckrodt stock in June...
...stood for Kathrine. Kathy Switzer, then 20, managed to elude the man and went on to finish, the first woman with a number in the marathon's history to do so. Today there are 15 million women runners in America, and Switzer, 34, is the head of Avon Cosmetics' $5 million sports department. She believes women's entry into the fitness and health boom is the single most striking fact of her generation. Says she: "I have seen overweight, unhappy, insecure women develop a confidence through running that helps them take risks and experience joy in their...
Residents of the Avon Hill Street area have formed a tenants' union to protest "unacceptable" rent increases by Harvard Real Estate, Inc., Linda B. Ramsey, president of the Botantic Gardens Tenants Association, said yesterday...
...Faculty or staff of the University, have sent a letter to President Bok charging that the 22 per cent rent increase Harvard Real Estate plans to implement this year is, not commensurate with salary increases for the University personnel living in the Botanic Gardens complex in the Avon Hill area...
...Bill Edwards, vice president of the 530-store B. Dalton Booksellers chain, where romances account for 30% of mass-market paperback sales: "The women know what days their new lines arrive here. They buy four or six novels at a whack, every month." The market is so febrile that Avon has published the first homosexual romance, Gaywick; Dell has done a black contemporary, and Jove plans a "Second Chance at Love" series, for divorcees starting over...