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...proposal, sponsored by Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Ernest F. Hollings of South Carolina, got 39 votes. It would have forced oil companies to get out of such other energy businesses as uranium production and coal mining. Should it become law, Continental Oil, for example, would have to divest Consolidation Coal, the nation's second largest coal producer...
...Government has already filed two previous suits to trim IBM. Judge Edelstein supervised the 1956 settlement of the last such case and ruled that IBM should divest itself of or reform much of its electric accounting-machine division. But by then the business had changed so radically that IBM already was voluntarily moving out of such machines. The Government, says Washington Lawyer C. Jack Pearce, "had to sue the third time because the first two times didn't do it-whatever it was they were trying...
...prospect of sincere and kindly intercourse never dares rear its gentle graying cranium on stage during the next 90 minutes. What does appear is a shallow but lively confrontation between the bombastic Bulgarians and an unflappable Bluntschli, the production packaged appropriately in Scott Joplin ragtime and stage directions that divest the original of any subtlety of humor...
...grabbed and brought back from South America by a Pinkerton detective. There has been a recent dent in that precedent, however. The U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals, which has a jurisdiction that includes New York, ruled last May that due process now requires "a court to divest itself of jurisdiction over ... a defendant, where it has been acquired as the result of the Government's deliberate, unnecessary and unreasonable invasion of the accused's constitutional rights...
Just why Harvard wants to divest the houses is not clear. Most of the homes lie within the boundaries of the University's acquisition map, and Harvard clearly does not want to, nor feels any obligation to, relinquish the land to the "community." Just so, the Purchase Option Plan will insure that none of these properties leaves University control. If an owner wishes to sell, Harvard will have first crack at the house, and if a tenant ends his employment with the University, he must relinquish the house...