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Only 35 minutes after the Borodine set sail, the U.S. Commerce Department placed the two French companies involved in the compressor sale on a "temporary denials" list, a partial commercial boycott that prohibits them from buying any U.S. goods, services or technology. One of the firms, Dresser-France, the manufacturer of the three compressors, is the wholly owned subsidiary of Dresser Industries of Dallas. The other, Creusot-Loire, a Paris-based heavy-engineering firm, is the leading French contractor for Soviet pipeline orders...
...later when he made an estimated $7 million in the takeover battle for Babcock & Wilcox Co., the electrical power plant manufacturer. Before last week's setback, he had parlayed a $4.1 million investment into a firm with assets of $300 million in less than two years. A stylish dresser, Boesky stays in shape for his 18-hr, workdays by playing squash or tennis four times a week. Says he of risk arbitrage: "If one is willing to work hard and can withstand the mental and physical pressures, there is probably no more exciting enterprise...
From the moment he heard the Phillies would be helping the Minnesota Twins christen their new ballpark this spring, Pete wanted the first baseball hit safely in the Hubert H. Humphrey Metrodome. It is rolling around in his dresser drawer now. "I might as well get them all," says Rose of the souvenir balls that have marked his trail like Hansel's breadcrumbs. "Soon I'll have made more outs than anybody, and I want that baseball...
...chapter on Edmund Wilson, "The Critic as Wound-Dresser," is overblown and a bit self-serving. Edel refers to the Greek myth of Philoctetes, a great archer who was banished because a septic injury offended the noses of his countrymen. Wilson himself read this as an allegory of the artist as outcast. As embellished by Edel, Wilson the critic is like Neoptolemus, son of Achilles, who endured the stench and nursed the archer. Wound-dresser is a limited and benign definition of a critic who laid open many a reputation with one stroke...
...ballet about the life of Charlie Chaplin. He intends to invite Maurice Béjart to stage it in Leningrad. The gossip is that Vinogradov was brought into the Kirov five years ago to liven things up and keep the younger generation of dancers interested. Vinogradov is a snappy dresser who likes wide pinstripes or a modified cowboy look. He seems to emerge from a Soviet equivalent of gilded youth, cosmopolitan, familiar with the latest trends in all the arts. His choreography is similar to that of several young Americans and Europeans, to judge by Le Revizor...