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...people I met during that chastening sojourn at Rosebud were Nancy and Sam White Horse, who lived in an unpainted shack atop a wintery knoll near the town of Mission. Born around the turn-of-the-century, they had spent most of their lives on the reservation, taking strong roles in tribal affairs and sharing with other members of the tribe in the manifold miseries as well as the sporadic improvements that came their way: the new schools, the modernized health facilities and the paved roads that were occasionally vouchsafed to the Sioux of Rosebud...
...Eighty percent of the history of life was unknown before he started his research," a colleague and a former student of Barghoorn's Associate Professor of Biology Andrew H Knoll, said yesterday, adding that Barghoorn was the catalyst for the research over the past two decades...
...Knoll said that Barghoorn was "really fabulous" in working with his students on a one-to-one basis. As a group, his former students' achievements in paleobotany "dwarf any comparable list that could be made of anyone else in the same field," Knoll added...
Sotheby's sees Taubman as a White Knight who will fend off an unfriendly takeover attempt by two other wealthy Americans, Marshall Cogan and Stephen Swid. Cogan and Swid head General Felt Industries, a New Jersey maker of carpet backing, and Knoll International, a manufacturer of office furniture. The two, both art collectors, acquired 29.9% of Sotheby's stock and announced that they wanted to buy the rest. Sotheby's was apoplectic. Chief Executive Graham Llewellyn threatened to "blow my brains out" if the bid succeeded, and Sotheby's staff of experts in London warned they...
They may be forced to follow through on the threat. Sotheby's is vulnerable. Its would-be owners are determined and well prepared. Since Knoll owns 14% of the stock, Cogan and Swid are already Soth eby's largest shareholders. Unfortunately, from Sotheby's point of view, armed guards and cameras are no protection in a takeover fight...