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...Uniroyal wrangle, company officers managed to fend off Icahn by attracting a friendly merger offer from a Wall Street investment firm, Clayton & Dubilier. The firm, which plans to raise $748 million for the deal, offered $22 a share, vs. Icahn's hostile bid of $18. Icahn, who amassed most of his 9% Uniroyal stake in April, withdrew his offer, promising not to increase his holdings for six months. It is not the first time Icahn has been foiled. He made an unsuccessful pass at Phillips Petroleum two months ago, and in the past has been fended off in raids...
...named Fursten while its owner, a General Dynamics executive, attended a company conference at a South Carolina resort. At last week's hearing, Dingell quizzed Lewis about a $571.25 charge for a king-size Serta Perfect Sleeper mattress and box-spring set, which was delivered to the Clayton Inn in suburban St. Louis. "It was for Mr. Veliotis," said Lewis, who explained that the executive said he needed the bed for the times he came to St. Louis for meetings. Added Gorden MacDonald, a General Dynamics executive vice president: "Mr. Veliotis, being a very large man, complained so much...
...symmetrical set of them, in fact, 5 ft. 9 in., though Mark Duper judges Mark Clayton to be somewhat taller, "except that he's bowlegged." They are referred to as Mark II, Mark twain and the Marks brothers in a city that can say Miamarino without blushing. Disavowing his family name, Dupas, for one that rhymes with super, Duper started out as Marino's bright particular sidekick both last year and early this season. Then the untaciturn Hoosier Clayton came babbling along. As the defenders flowed to Duper, Marino turned to Clayton. A more mature Smurf, Nat Moore, took...
...item about the two portraits of President Nixon [PEOPLE, Dec. 10] left an impression that was unfair to one of the artists. It is not true that the former President "never did like" the painting by Alexander Clayton. When J. Anthony Wills' canvas was completed, the Nixons decided to designate it the White House portrait and to earmark Mr. Clayton's for the library now planned at San Clemente...
...Clayton painting, which cost the White House Historical Association $15,000, has now been banished from display but will remain in the Presidential Collection...