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Take-offs on Chaucer ("There was a Knight, a worthy for the chaffre./ He lovede gold, and was a Pornografer...) and Shakespeare (To draw, or not to draw,--that is the question:--/ Whether 'tis safer in the player to take/ The awful risk of skinning for a straight,/ Or, standing pat, to raise 'em all the limit/ And thus, by bluffing, get in...) abound...
...liquor company. They also feared that Seagram would bring in new management. Around the oil firm's headquarters, employees bitterly joked that the motto of a combined Seagram-Conoco enterprise would be "Drink and Drive." Chairman Bailey quickly searched for an alternative merger partner, or so-called white knight, to thwart Seagram's plans. His first choice was Tulsa-based Cities Service, an oil company less than half Conoco's size but with exploration rights to 10 million U.S. acres. Readily agreeing to talk, Cities Service President Charles Waidelich met with Bailey at New York City...
DIED. John Knight, 86, tough, acerbic newspaperman who, as the founder and longtime editor of the Knight-Ridder group, led its expansion into one of the largest newspaper chains in the country; of a heart attack; in Akron. A former sportswriter and managing editor at the Akron Beacon Journal, Knight inherited the paper from his father in 1933 and used it as a base to build a thriving publishing empire that today includes four television stations and 34 daily newspapers with a combined weekly circulation of 25 million (among them: the Detroit Free Press, the Miami Herald, the Charlotte Observer...
...gays and lesbians at Harvard. "She is a one-woman network." Schatz says of Williams, who is also president of the Black Students Association. Williams pressured GOOD and GSA into considering feminist issues in meetings and into including a discussion of feminism and lesbianism at the GLAD days. Laurie Knight '83-2, a member of GSA and RLA, points out that this year for the first time GSA's membership is "approaching parity" between men and women. "Much of the huge torrent of activity and talk about gay rights has to do with a better integration of women into...
...doubtful that the two offers will result in appointments to the Harvard faculty. Huggins's decision to join the department last spring was accompanied by the refusal of tenured positions by Lawrence W. Levine, a history professor at the University of California at Berkeley, and Franklin W. Knight, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University. Attracting the top-flight faculty the University desires has been a persistent problem for Afro-American studies at Harvard. Southern became only the second professor to accept tenure in 1975, while five scholars have turned down tenured positions between the time of the department...