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...haul service last year, is one of the few U.S. railroads that earned money on that kind of traffic. Or accomplishing unlikely mergers: in a recent move that caught Wall Street by surprise, Heineman announced that for cash and stock exchanges totaling $367 million, the C. & N.W. was acquiring Essex Wire Corp. (annual sales: $375 million), a Fort Wayne, Ind. firm that makes wire, cable, switches and auto parts in 54 U.S. and Canadian plants. The railroad seems to be getting a bargain. Essex itself last week announced that it was acquiring Stevens Manufacturing Co. and Boyne Products, Inc., both...
Once Heineman has formally absorbed Essex Wire, he intends to run it and its acquisitions the way he runs Velsicol-not very tightly. "They don't know anything about the chemical business," says Velsicol President Norman E. Hathaway, 47. "And we don't know anything about the railroad business." Reinforced by the C. & N.W.'s prestige and borrowing power, Hathaway is largely left to manage the chemical operation in his own fashion...
Recruiting from Tunisia. Although elementary-school teachers are needed most, specialists in such high school subjects as mathematics, science and women's physical education are also scarce. The shortage of high school industrial-arts teachers is "horrendous," says Ohio State Superintendent Martin Essex. Colleges produce few vocational teachers these days, and anyone with mechanical skills can easily triple his teaching salary in industry...
...mornings at his two-room apartment on the 36th floor of Manhattan's Essex House, Bing pauses over his porridge to read the London Daily Telegraph ("I can't lift the New York...
...British, who love nothing better than a good crime story, responded enthusiastically. Harry was spotted almost simultaneously in Cornwall, Glamorgan, Cumberland, Great Yarmouth and Leicester, then on the Isles of Sheppey and Wight. He was reported hiding out at Tilbury Fort, at a girls' school in Essex, and with a terrorist Republican band in Ireland...