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With its finely wrought balustrade, the Doric columns supporting its portico, the Villa Pietri looked like a Roman nobleman's villa that had somehow been misplaced on the edge of the African continent. It was the headquarters from which Gaddafi directed the global activities of his terrorist network. The Libyan...
With stunning swiftness, the $6.5 billion battle between Mobil Corp. and U.S. Steel for control of Marathon Oil turned nasty last week. Mobil, still frustrated and angry over its defeat by Du Pont earlier this year in the struggle to take over Conoco, seemed on the brink of losing again...
Marathon investors had reason to be pleased. The value of their stock, which had traded as low as $45 in the past year, shot up to $104, helped by a single day's rise of more than $27 after the deal was announced. Few observers, though, were totally convinced...
Sotheby's was helping RCA sell space on its new communications satellite, Satcom IV, scheduled to be launched Jan. 12. As Sotheby's president, John L. Marion, opened the bidding, he stood in front of a back-lit picture of an orbiting Satcom that was no challenge to...
Smack in the center of the red-and-white-striped big top, Arlene Yaple, 63, surveys her domain: prize pumpkins, homemade brownies, dried cornstalks, okra and an American flag crafted of apples and grapes. Square dancers do-si-do to the bidding of a caller on a stage near by...