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...merger bid represents a career-end gamble for Blumenthal, 60, who earlier served as chairman of Bendix and as Treasury Secretary under President Carter. His determined advance convinced Wall Street that Sperry's days as an independent company are numbered. In just two days last week, speculators sent Sperry's stock price up $16.25, to $71.25. Some investors think Sperry will find a so-called white knight to deliver it from Blumenthal's clutches, but the company is running out of candidates. During the past year, Sperry is rumored to have held merger talks with ITT, General Dynamics...
Mostly, he did, though the Motion Picture Academy, which likes to give its awards to people who trumpet the loftiness of their themes, contented itself with nominating Hitchcock five times as best director. The only Oscar he got was a career-end special. Even after his death last week at 80 in his Bel-Air home, there were implacably middlebrow critics insisting that Hitchcock never placed his impeccably subtle technique in the service of "serious" matters. As if his lifelong contemplation of the way disorder violently intrudes upon the blithe assumptions of ordinary men that the world is a logical...
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