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...election was then scheduled, and all seemed set for a replay of March 26, 1981. That is, until the union recently decided to withdraw its petition for the employee vote (at press time, an NLRB spokesman said he could not confirm that the election was officially off until the petition withdrawal was reviewed...
Rolland called a friend at Salomon to confirm the rumor, and then acted fast. By the end of last week, he had moved nearly $1 billion into the stock market. Says Rolland: "Once we made up our minds, we never looked back...
...White House spokesman this week declined to confirm the report, as did an official in the President's personnel office "Obviously we're actively looking, but there are no names right now," said Suc Mathis of the White House press office...
John Cheever died last month. A loss to American writing, but not really a disaster. The parlor game of ranking is seductive. We like to wonder if the Darwinian selections of Posterity will confirm our prejudices. The briefly Celebrated poet Delmore Schwartz once wrote, with a weather eye on his own coming obscurity: "No reputation is more than snowfall. It vanishes...
...territory, no matter how much expertise and equipment they get. I can mention the foreign support-you know, the Israeli expertise, and the North Koreans [who are serving as arms suppliers]. We also have a conviction that certain Soviet arms managed to reach them, but until now I cannot confirm it absolutely...