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...same time, however, Texaco was waging its own frontal assault on Getty. In early February number-six Texaco beat number-nine Getty, having come up with $12 billion to buy out the smaller cousin--setting a new record for the biggest corporate takeover...
DIED. Jessamyn West, 81, gentle-spirited novelist and short-story writer, best known for her first collection of stories, The Friendly Persuasion, about a Quaker family on the Indiana frontier during the Civil War; in Napa, Calif. Born into a Quaker family (Richard Nixon is her distant cousin), West set much of her fiction in her native Indiana, although she lived most of her life in California. "I am by all I know a Californian," she once said, "and by all I imagine a Hoosier...
...species does not give way immediately to another, Gould argues, but it coexists with a cousin-species until one eventually prevails for a variety of reasons. The diagram of evolution he flashes on a screen in Science B-16 resembles a bush whose branches represent different experiments in the way an animal type finds to survive...
Your articles on the arrest of Argentina's former military leaders [Jan. 23] are not evenhanded. The left-wing terrorists, not the generals,started the dirty war. As a cousin of mine who is among the disappeared ones told me the last time we met, "The old order has to be destroyed to build a more just one." His politics led to acts as despicable as those used by the military. Because the generals won that war, we have democracy today in Argentina...
...Bull, a similar document drawn up by a King of Hungary seven years later. She also noted that the bridge across the Danube near the Országház (parliament) was a copy of the Hammersmith Bridge over the Thames. (The Hungarian parliament, in fact, is an architectural cousin of Westminster.) In her own bridge-building exercise, Thatcher declared, "We must not allow ourselves to be prisoners of events, still less to be deflected by plausible half-truths or empty panaceas. We must wrestle with the world...