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...toughest move was closing Aldens, the fifth-largest U.S. catalogue-showroom operator, and breaking the news to its 2,600 employees, many of whom had worked at Aldens all their lives. Sigoloff had sought a buyer for the business, but none could be found. Fearing reprisals for the shutdown, he hired bodyguards for Aldens executives, who even suspected that their food might be poisoned. Said Sigoloff of the closings: "You're paid to make those calls. You're a professional, and you don't fall in love with businesses...
Gulf is entertaining offers because it is frantically seeking a buyer to save it from T. Boone Pickens Jr., chairman of Mesa Petroleum. Although Pickens lost a proxy battle to gain control of Gulf in December, his group holds 13.2% of the oil company's stock. In addition, Pickens has offered to buy an additional 8.1% of Gulf for $65 a share in a tender offer that takes effect at midnight on March 21. If successful, he might go ahead with his plan for a drastic restructuring of the company...
...bravado and courtesy had made him a folk hero in South Africa. The traffic violator had given his name as Peter Harris. Tomasello had sold a used orange Mustang to a Peter Harris less than two weeks earlier. When he looked up from his newspaper, Tomasello saw the car buyer in front of him. "Is this you?" Tomasello asked, pointing to the story. "Yes, that's me," the man replied. "I can't believe they caught up to me so quickly...
Customs agents suspected the real buyer: the Soviets. Aided by West German customs officials, they found a manifest for the laser with a most incriminating address: a physics lab in Moscow. Cormerford and Adamski, charged last week, each face up to seven years in prison. Prankish federal agents decided to send along the Soviet-bound parcels-sort of. They filled the crates with 700 Ibs. of concrete and, inside one, tucked a two-word note, in plainest English...
...friend a gaudy new face. That worry rippled through Houston in October after the family of Texas Lieutenant Governor William Hobby sold the city's oldest (founded 1885) daily, the cautious, folksy Post (circ. 402,000), for $100 million to perhaps the ultimate absentees: Canadians. The buyer, the Toronto Sun Publishing Corp., has three Canadian dailies that specialize in short, sensational stories and photos of bare-chested men and barely dressed women. The Houston Chronicle (circ. 459,000), perhaps shaken by the prospect of a rivalry in what has been one of the U.S.'s least competitive...