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...list of big deals announced over the past twelve months includes the largest U.S. merger ever: General Electric's $2 billion purchase of Utah International, a company that mines coal and copper. Two other huge mergers: Mobil Oil's $1 billion acquisition of Marcor, the company that owns the Montgomery Ward department stores, and Atlantic-Richfield's $700 million buy-out of Anaconda, the copper-mining giant. Right now, Gulf Oil has offered $440 million for Kewanee Industries, an independent oil and gas producer; PepsiCo has bid $315 million in stock for Pizza Hut, a chain...
...obstacles faced by a working-class lad in the 1930s but concentrates on another: the baffle that prevents people from understanding themselves. Left motherless at age seven, William Scorton is raised by his father, a veteran artilleryman who has used the military to escape from the coal mines of his youth. Equating discipline with love, the father trains his young son to become an artillery gunner; when he takes William to visit his mother's grave, he carts along a compass so that they can make a field map of the cemetery. This utilitarian education takes: William wins...
...loss; there is a suspicion in Washington that the 500 proposal was planned in the first place as a throwaway to give Congress something to kill. Also the President could not sell the House on giving him power to order factories to switch from oil or natural gas to coal as fuel-but the House did enact a special tax on plants that fail to make the switch...
...time is just after World War II, and the English educational system has begun its shift from the old-boy network to the creation of a meritocracy. Like D.H. Lawrence's characters in Sons and Lovers, Colin's father is abraded by a life in the coal pits, and his mother by poverty and sickness, but there seems to be no limit to what the boy can achieve...
...early 20s, however, Colin is becalmed and resentful, a teacher of dull-eyed children in a coal town, a survivor of a glum and perfunctory love affair. His only vivid feeling is rancid hatred for a placid younger brother who accepts a miner's life as normal...