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Britain's ruling Labor Party encourages corporate mergers on the theory that the country needs bigger and more efficient companies to compete in world markets. Taking the government at its word, Britain's General Electric Co. Ltd. (no kin to American G.E.), and English Electric Co., which stand one-two in the country's electrical field, obligingly prepared last week to join forces in a corporate merger that would be the biggest in British history...
Just notify my next of kin...
...house, groaning and sighing with the weight of ages, becomes a mausoleum for her, and she drifts aimlessly from room to room, her wide brown eyes masking dark fantasies. She meets a boy, but he only adds to the uneasiness. A live ringer for her dead kin, he has this strange way of gazing at her. Is it love or a grim beckoning from the beyond? No firm answers are forthcoming, as past and present finally collide in a wild, whirling scene that ends not with a bang but a whaa...
Rene Cartier, business manager; Raymond Cartier (no kin), a star reporter; and Arnold de Contades, 35, a Prouvost grandson-in-law who has had no previous experience in journalism. Then he drew up a list of several staffers to be dismissed. This action, he maintained, was dictated by economic necessity. And, indeed, profits had slipped somewhat before the strike. By failing to publish four issues during the strikes, Paris-Match had lost at least $1,000,000. Moreover, advertising orders had dropped, and the magazine was hard put to maintain its prestrike 1,280,000 circulation. By trimming the staff...
...returned to the Middle East twice, in 1964 and 1966. The story was flatly denied by the FBI and State Department. In fact, the peripatetic Sirhan to whom Kimche was alluding may be an American citizen named Sirhan Selim Sirhan, ten years older than the accused and no kin, who frequently visits the Middle East...