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...Mission (ISPM). Two unmanned spacecraft were to be sent in great, looping orbits over the unexplored poles of the sun. Last week J.P.L. officials gloomily conceded that they had finally given up hope of launching a once-in-a-lifetime mission to intercept Halley's comet. This primordial chunk of matter, which returns to the sun's vicinity in early 1986 after an absence of 76 years, could provide invaluable clues to understanding our solar system's origins. Now it will be examined only by less sophisticated European, Soviet and Japanese probes...
...moved swiftly The Bath Industries name waw changed to Congoleum, reflecting that company's contribution to its survival. Smaller, unprofitable companies like Coronet Manufacturing Co. and Howard Parlor Furniture Co. that had been acquired by Bath Industries were sold off. BIW aggressively went after and won a big chunk of the Navy's guided-missile frigate program, and began writing contracts with markups for increased costs...
...Crimson opens the 1981 season against a team riding a 12-game Ivy losing streak, a team coach Bob Naso admits "can't help but be better" than last season's 1-9 edition. Perhaps Naso's optimism is founded on the loss of 25 lettermen, including a big chunk of the Ivies' worst defense. Perhaps Naso expects miracles from sophomores like quarterback John Witkowski and running back Jim McHale. Perhaps Naso is just talking like a football coach and really doesn't expect his team to be better...
Gustav Mahler may be as unfamiliar to one chunk of the population as Blue Oyster Cult is to another, but practically everybody knows what beer weekends-were-made-for and which hamburger hawkers will do-it-all-for-you. In an age of increasingly fractionated audiences for radio and records, and of a dozen or so subdivisions just within rock, jingles selling products may be America's only truly popular, all-embracing music...
Many of the coveted companies moved swiftly last week to protect themselves from a takeover. Cities Service has lined up $1 billion in standby credit, possibly to enable it to buy back a chunk of its own stock in the event of an unwanted merger bid. Marathon Oil has arranged to borrow up to $5 billion. Analysts think that Marathon might be preparing to buy another company and thus become too big to be easily swallowed. Even Gulf, the fifth largest U.S. oil company, announced a plan last week to protect itself by buying up 5% of its own stock...