Word: elliott
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...little. Though limited in staff size as well as funds, the I.R.C. has indeed played an active role in relatively few of the country's many recent mergers. One of its notable public achievements was its help, including a $42 million loan, in arranging the marriage of Elliott-Automation and English Electric into a single $990 million-a-year computer-making company. The I.R.C. has also worked behind the scenes on even bigger deals, including General Electric Co. Ltd.'s acquisition of Associated Electrical Industries Ltd. For that, however, it received criticism as well as praise, especially from...
...fundamental problem seems to be the Young Dems' failure to offer a coherent political ideology to its membership. Elliott Abrams '69, a candidate for president, has said, "An overwhelming majority of the members I've talked to haven't done any serious thinking about what it means to be a Democrat. They join because they think they're liberals, or because their parents are. It's Young Dems' job to help them articulate and act on a Liberal Democratic Ideology...
...Died. Elliott B. Macrae, 67, president since 1944 of E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., publishers; of cancer; in New Canaan, Conn. Widely traveled and equally cosmopolitan in taste, Macrae over the years printed something for practically everyone; he sprang Mickey Spillane on the world (seven biggest sellers: 34.6 million copies), published Mountain Climber Maurice Herzog's classic Annapurna, Lawrence Durrell's The Alexandria Quartet, and Evgeny Evtushenko's Selected Poems. His great friend was A. A. Milne, whose whimsical Winnie-the-Pooh sold more than 1,000,000 copies and appeared in a dozen languages-including...
About the hottest contender for Pearson's job is the man who drew up much of last week's agenda for reform and argued persuasively for its adoption. Though he has not yet said whether he wants the post, Justice Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, 46, has become something of a Roman candle in the usually staid, grey world of Canadian politics-and thus a candidate without having to declare himself...
When the board demanded an investigation, the council, under leadership of then Mayor Elliott Roosevelt, adopted a resolution calling for dissolution of the board. Last week the Art Dealers Association of America charged that the authenticity of at least eleven of the most important paintings in the Bass Museum "is open to serious question...