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While the rest of America sat watching New Year's Day bowl games on TV on Jan. 1, 1984, Getty Oil Scion Gordon Getty and J. Hugh Liedtke, chairman of Pennzoil, shook hands on a $5.3 billion merger. In Getty's luxurious New York City apartment overlooking Fifth Avenue, Liedtke agreed to pay $110 a share for 43% of Getty Oil. Five days later, Getty's board of directors approved a deal--but not with Pennzoil. Between Jan. 1 and Jan. 6, Texaco Chairman John McKinley had made a bold $125-a-share bid for Getty, and Getty's board...
...Isles to you? No? Then you haven't visited the Isles of Scilly. The Scillys consist of about 150 islands and rocks, five of which are home to just over 2,000 Scillonians. There are no crowds, very little crime and only a few roads. Yet Scilly's hub, Hugh Town on St. Mary's, is less than three hours by boat from Penzance or a 15-minute airplane ride from Land's End, both in Cornwall. Once there, vacationers usually hop between the five main islands?Tresco, pictured; St. Mary's, St. Martin's, St. Agnes and Bryher...
...warmth of the people is best experienced during the summer's weekly regatta of pilot boats?these six-oared rowing boats were originally used to take crew to Atlantic ships. Now on Wednesdays (women's races) and Fridays (men's), hundreds of locals congregate in Hugh Town's harbor to watch or take part. The Scillys also have one of the world's greatest concentrations of shipwrecks per square mile. Noteworthy wrecks include The Eagle, which went down just west of St. Agnes in 1707, and the anemone-covered King Cadwallen, which sank in 1906. Good underwater visibility ensures excellent...
...want to appear strong, never blink. Marlene Dietrich told me that. If you want to appear weak and funny, blink all the time. Hugh Grant never stops blinking...
...Hugh Calkins ’45, chairman of the CCSR from 1969 until 1986, told The Crimson in 1980 that “the sudden shift in the ACSR’s votes may saddle Harvard with a reputation of inconsistency in the corporate world...