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Suddenly, Morristown was faced with the prospect of a legal donnybrook that would cost more than $1 million. "We knew that some of the cops stood to lose their homes to pay damages if we lost in court," says Kathleen O'Neill Margiotta, then town council president. Last November the municipality threw in the towel and settled...
...Donnybrook over the continued existence of the NEA began last year with the funding of an exhibition of Mapplethorpe's photographs, has ramified immensely since then, and is now coming to a head. Helms' pressure has already forced the NEA to make arts-grant recipients pledge that they will do nothing obscene or indecent on Government money. Sometime in June the NEA's reauthorization and funding bills go to the House floor, where a vocal ultra- conservative rump, led by California Republican Dana Rohrabacher, will attempt to abolish the agency. Since the House will probably not go along -- George Bush...
...following evening, in defenseman Kevan Melrose's final collegiate contest, the Crimson's conduct turned ugly in a bruising battle against Brown. Melrose rang up 24 of Harvard's 54 penalty minutes himself, 14 of them in a last-minute donnybrook reminiscent of Slapshot in which the brawling bad boy beat up three Bruins...
...donnybrook was only the most colossal of the deals that persisted last week in rearranging the U.S. corporate landscape. Hospital Corporation of America, the nation's largest hospital chain, ended more than a month of dickering and agreed to be acquired for $3.6 billion in an LBO put together by the company's management. Triangle Industries, which just two years ago acquired the packaging division of American Can in an LBO, agreed to be bought for $1.3 billion by Pechiney, the state-owned French metals firm...
This living-room war last week produced a titanic battle -- Wednesday night's Donnybrook between Lloyd Bentsen and Dan Quayle -- that might be called The Revenge of the Second Bananas. Bentsen was solid, senatorial and soothingly statesmanlike. Quayle, who often seemed as lost as an actor missing half the pages of his script, struggled to overcome his own Throttlebottom image -- and lost. The one-sided debate did not instantly alter the Electoral College arithmetic favoring George Bush, but it did appear to have kept the race open as the two presidential contenders head toward their final face...