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...they plan their own tactics without consulting outside advisers. Mobil lost out to Du Pont in the contest for Conoco by coming in with a low bid. Its initial $5.1 billion offer for Marathon in October was also immediately denounced as "grossly inadequate" by the company's president, Harold Hoopman. Said a leading investment banker: "If Mobil had bid $126 a share from day one, instead of $85 a share, they would have cut out U.S. Steel from the beginning...
Critics say that these prebilling conditions are no more than a way to put the risks of building the pipeline on the shoulders of consumers. Said House Democrat Harold Volkmer of Missouri: "This...
Directed by Harold Becker Screenplay by Darryl Ponicsan and Robert Mark Kamen
...publishing circles, the cubists are hotter than Harold Robbins. With 6 million copies in print, The Simple Solution to Rubik's Cube, a 64-page booklet written by Stanford Chemist James Nourse, has become the fastest-selling title in the history of Bantam Books, outpacing Jaws and Valley of the Dolls. Buoyed by the acute aggravation of frustrated cube twiddlers, Nourse's book has topped bestseller lists in the U.S. and around the world from New Zealand to Nigeria. Says John May, managing director of George's Booksellers in Bristol, England: "The cube phenomenon is the biggest...
...prostitute Jenny in Bertolt Brecht and Weill's The Threepenny Opera. The Weills fled Nazism for the U.S. and, especially after Weill's death in 1950, Lenya renewed her career on the Broadway stage (Cabaret) and in spoofy films (From Russia With Love). Said Music Critic Harold Schonberg: "She can put into a song an intensity that becomes almost terrifying...