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...October 21 panel discussion will feature Sen. Gordon Humphries (R-N.H.), Sen. Christopher Dodd (D-Conn.), and Kurt Lohbeck, a freelance film-maker for CBS News who will show footage of conditions in the war-torn country...
Harvard-Yale Race: held in early June each year on the Thames River in Conn., the Harvard-Yale race is four miles long, as opposed to the usual 2000-meter contest and stresses endurance. Harvard's 18-year hold on the event was broken by the Elis in 1981. The Crimson broke a four-year Bulldog victory string with a triumph in the spring...
Sprints: events held each spring to determine Eastern champions. The men's sprints are held on Lake Quinsigamond in Worcester in May to determine the Eastern lightweight and heavyweight champion crews. The women's sprints are a week later on Lake Waramaug in New Preston, Conn. The most important regular event on the crew calender...
...Richardson-Vicks, based in Wilton, Conn., the trouble began last month, when its stockholders received a $54-a-share offer from Unilever, the British- Dutch household-products giant. Prior to the bid, Richardson-Vicks had been trading for about $40 a share. Nonetheless, its executives spurned the offer, thinking they could get even more for the company and fearing Unilever's reputation for trimming the management ranks of firms it acquires. Unilever upped its bid to $60 a share, but Richardson-Vicks still put out a plea for a "white knight" to make a friendly merger bid. Procter & Gamble...
While scientists and politicians debate the merits of SDI, companies are plunging fearlessly ahead with their Star Wars research. Says Gaynor Kelley, president of Perkin-Elmer, a high-tech firm based in Norwalk, Conn.: "We see SDI as a chance to generate hundreds of millions of dollars in business over the next five to ten years." Such payoffs are far from a sure thing, but it is a business opportunity too great to ignore...