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...Harold E. Fuller Green...
Amexco initially seemed likely to win. But its managers appeared stunned by the fury of McGraw-Hill Chairman Harold McGraw Jr.'s attacks on Amexco's "corporate morality" and unwilling to take the chance that further such assaults would blacken its reputation during a drawnout struggle. At the start of the week, Amexco Chairman James D. Robinson III raised the company's bid for McGraw-Hill stock from $34 a share to $40, or a total of almost $1 billion in cash. But he promised not to make a tender offer to stockholders unless the majority...
...aggressive tactics of striking workers have led to a growing anti-union sentiment. Particularly offensive to many Britons are the truckers' "flying pickets," who race from one point to another, hampering deliveries by nonunion drivers. A bill enacted by the Labor government of Harold Wilson in 1974 is allowing truckers to hold the entire nation virtually at ransom by preventing shipments to plants and businesses with no direct role in the union negotiations. More than 200,000 workers have been laid off from factories idled by a lack of raw materials and supplies. Almost $2 billion worth of imports...
Thirty-six hours after the sentences were commuted, U.S. Attorney Harold D. Hardin warned Governor-elect Lamar Alexander that Blanton was about to release additional convicts, reportedly including Eddie ("Dusty") Denton, 25, a convicted murderer serving 60 years, for whom an $85,000 down payment had alledgedly been made on a commutation that was supposed to cost...
...American Express sued McGraw-Hill for libel and "publicly disseminating false and misleading statements designed to induce McGraw-Hill shareholders to reject American Express's tender offer." Attackers do not expect to be loved, but they rarely sue for libel. The 22-page complaint was aimed at silencing Harold McGraw, the publishing company's chief, who earlier in the week took out ads harshly attacking American Express, its chairman, James Robinson, and its president, Roger Morley...