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Another centennial find is the reconstructed Fort Union Trading Post, built in 1829, near the confluence of the strategic Missouri and Yellowstone rivers in the northwest corner of North Dakota. Fort Union served as a linchpin in John Jacob Astor's lucrative beaver-fur and buffalo trade with the Assiniboin, Crow and Blackfeet Indians. In its halcyon days, which lasted a quarter- century, the post dominated the upper Missouri from behind an elegant, whitewashed palisade. Annual steamboats brought artists and ethnologists. The bourgeois, or superintendent, maintained a splendid table, and French wine flowed in an imposing residence topped with...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
...woolly American phenomenon -- interesting at a distance but unacceptable at close range. Last week Sir James Goldsmith forced them to take another look by launching a surprise $21 billion hostile bid for B.A.T Industries (1988 revenues: $29 billion). Backed by investors Kerry Packer, the Australian industrialist, and Jacob Rothschild, the British financier, Goldsmith plans to break up the sprawling London-based conglomerate and "liberate" far-flung divisions that sell everything from cigarettes (Kool, Viceroy) to insurance in more than 40 countries...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...
ASSOCIATE EDITORS: William R. Doerner, John Greenwald, William A. Henry III, Marguerite Johnson, Richard Lacayo, Jacob V. Lamar, John Langone, Michael D. Lemonick, Richard N. Ostling, Sue Raffety, Ariadna Victoria Rainert, J.D. Reed, Jill Smolowe, Susan Tifft, Anastasia Toufexis, Michael Walsh, Richard Zoglin...