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...motion the negotiations that would alter his empire (not to mention his passport) is March 28, 1985. Murdoch was paying his first visit to the Hollywood studios of 20th Century-Fox, half of which he had just bought from Denver Oil Tycoon Marvin Davis. As it happened, John Kluge, the billionaire chieftain of Metromedia Inc., was also on the lot that day to attend an investment conference...
Murdoch and Kluge, already friends, exchanged pleasantries; before long, Kluge was sounding out Murdoch and Davis about selling them Metromedia's string of television stations. A discussion over dinner led the following day to serious talks, which eventually led to marathon meetings in Kluge's apartment in New York's Waldorf Towers. As the hard-driving Murdoch described the complex bargaining that followed, "You find things you don't expect, you shout, you scream...
Hitler's top generals urged him to pull back from Normandy and establish a new defensive line on the Seine. Hitler refused. He ordered Field Marshal Günther von Kluge, his commander in the west, to launch an immediate counterattack against the American breakthrough force. Into this he flung not only the battered remnants of the Seventh Army but also the Fifteenth Army, which had been at the Pas de Calais awaiting the invasion that never came. Their mission: to cut through American lines to the port of Avranches and isolate the twelve American divisions that Patton had led south...
...morally irresponsible and in poor taste to do so. Society has the moral right to demand reasonable limits as to the public image of women. To establish a society based on equality and on mutual respect, the degradation of women in advertising, must stop. Alison Dundes '81 Alouette Kluge...
...congratulate Alison Dundes and Alouette Kluge for bringing "The Nolan Case" before the public eye. It is, indeed, a shame that so fine a teacher must find another academic home away from Harvard. But I question how much this situation is the result of her sex or her political disposition. After all, the same thing happens yearly to the vast majority of junior faculty in the Humanities and Social Sciences, and it happens with a wonderful degree of equality, i.e., regardless of the individual's sex, race, ideology or degree of talent. It will, no doubt, be a long time...