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...together by sweetening his offer to English Electric shareholders. But until terms of the agreement with British G.E. are made public, he will have obviously no idea about how much to raise the ante. An alternative for Clark would be to merge Plessey with another firm, one possibility being Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd., an aircraft and diesel-engine manufacturer. And he can always hope for a miracle, like the government's withdrawing its approval of the proposed merger. In the U.S., the Justice Department would cast the dourest eye on a get-together between such large competitors. But Harold...
Died. Sir Roy Dobson, 76, chairman (1963-67) of the giant Hawker Siddeley Group and wartime head of A. V. Roe & Co., makers of the famed Lancaster bomber; of lung cancer; in Midhurst, England. The emphasis was on fighters in 1940, and Aircraft Czar Lord Beaverbrook turned Dobson down when he asked permission to build a super-bomber; Avro tackled the project on its own, by war's end had produced 7,500 "Lancs" which helped pound Nazi Germany into rubble...
Cooperation has become necessary for the Trucial States since Britain decided to pull back its 6,000 troops and its two Hawker Hunter jet squadrons from the Persian Gulf by 1971. Arab nationalists in South Yemen have vowed to oust the sheiks, and the Egyptians, Saudi Arabians, Iraqis and Iranians are also out to extend their influence in the Gulf. Result: the Trucial sheiks are scurrying around looking for ways to protect themselves. Last week's pact is just a start toward banding together in the face of danger. This week the sheiks gather in Dubai to discuss enlarging...
...Latin Americans have been adding steadily to their arsenals. From the U.S., Brazil bought 50 M41 light tanks and Argentina 24 subsonic Douglas A-4B jet fighters. When the U.S. balked at selling its southern neighbors any supersonic fighters, Chile simply went to Britain and bought 21 Hawker Hunters...
...corner of Jersey and Brook-line, a lone hawker stands shivering. "Get your girl a souvenir garter," he barks, waving a cardboard with a lone garter. "Get your genuine World Series garter, last one left." There are no takers...