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Icahn moved into a field where he could have more control: takeovers. He now specializes in finding poorly run companies and then launching a raid, which involves an effort to get con- trol of the firm. Icahn's record is impressive: since 1968 he has made more than $100 million in the takeover game. One premise of the Icahn strategy is that large American firms are staffed with poor managers. Says he: "Unfortunately, many of today's chief executives have spent the first 20 or 30 years of their business careers studying how to please their boards rather than concentrating...
...President Reagan, at his news con ference in Washington Wednesday night...
...Visit from St. Nicholas with the Boston Pops. Although O'Neill had rehearsed with the orchestra only once, neither he nor Conductor John Williams missed a beat, even when the audience interrupted the narrative with laughter and applause whenever O'Neill's eyebrows started moving con brio. Afterward the Speaker confessed that he had a private rehearsal at home, with his grandchildren prompting "Pop-Pop" whenever he flubbed a line. "It's been 30 years since I've read the poem," he twinkled in his best jolly-old-elf style. Is O'Neill perchance...
...None of these cases, however, has been directly connected to occupational exposure, insists Dr. James Curran, director of the CDC task force on AIDS. Even the Boston case is subject to question. So far, investigators have been unable to find out if the laboratory worker had actually handled AlDS-con-taminated blood. "Whether he got AIDS from the needle stick is unclear and is likely to remain unclear," says Curran...
...Most of the time reading period isn't much of a change for me--maybe one-fourth less work is assigned," added Michael M. Dowling '85, a biochemistry con concentrator...