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...offer to more than $27,000,000, and various branches of the locally prominent McGowin family that held 53% of the stock decided to sell him their block of shares, giving him control of the company. The deal had scarcely been consummated before Newhouse arrived in town to inspect his latest acquisition-which boosts the number of newspapers he owns...
...damned in another fashion. Cedric Richards resigned in protest from the parish council, hinting that the reason the company was allowed to "ride roughshod" was because it had bought off some of his fellow citizens. Beresford Worswick, a crusty fugitive from London, summoned the Royal Fine Art Commission to inspect the scene. The commission expressed regret that "a film company should have made alterations to an exceptional English village, instead of adopting the more acceptable practice of building a film set to represent an English village...
...Foreign Minister Adam Rapacki turned up in Stockholm; Hungarian Boss János Kádár talked to Tito in Bled; the Shah of Iran left Rumania for an eight-day state visit to Yugoslavia. No sooner had Rumanian Postal Minister Mihai Balanescu arrived in Paris to inspect French telecommunications than Kentucky Governor Ed Breathitt popped up in Poznan for a Polish tool fair...
...merger that the ICC unexpectedly turned down last month, he was slated to become operating head of the three roads. With the merger outlook now cloudy, he is concentrating on bettering the Burlington. Among the measures so far: >The Burlington bought a turboprop executive plane, flies potential customers to inspect 10,000 acres of industrial sites scattered along its right of way. >Menk cut paper work by ordering 419 forms discontinued, including one that took five hours to prepare and was then promptly filed and forgotten, has also trimmed 1,200 employees from the payroll, shifted others. >To regulate freight...
...death alarmed the Austrian countryside, sent village drummers and police loudspeaker cars through the vineyard-studded hills of southern Burgenland to alert the peasants to the danger. More to the point, a new eight-man Austro-Hungarian border commission called at the house of Claudia's parents to inspect fragments of the exploded mine, and the Hungarians officially admitted their guilt. The Foreign Ministry in Budapest promised to try to improve the situation, possibly (as the Austrians recommended) by damming the rivers temporarily and retrieving some of the lost mines from...