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...into a high-tech star. Now the Detroit giant was driving off with its prize. After a contest in which it outbid Ford and Boeing, GM agreed to acquire Hughes Aircraft, a major defense contractor (1984 sales: $5.8 billion), for more than $5 billion in cash and stock. The landmark deal is the largest non-oil merger ever. Said Smith: "Lulu is home...
...mother -- will be split into six parts. The agreement ends Gordon Getty's control of one of the largest U.S. family fortunes and divides the authority among the four branches of the Getty line, which includes 26 heirs. Said Seth Hufstedler, one of some 20 lawyers in the landmark case: "Great efforts have been made toward family peace. The alternative is clearly years and years of bitter litigation...
...breakthrough series? Perhaps. But The Cosby Show pales beside such landmark sitcoms of the 1970s as All in the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show. Those programs forged new territory for TV comedy, in both style and subject matter. The Cosby Show, with its genial wholesomeness, harks back to old times. If any ground is being broken, it may just be TV comedy putting its head back into the sand...
...Columbia President should have left the protesters to maintain their vigil until they tired of the tedium. Without the threat of an impending clash or the excitement of a landmark legal case, the protesters' initial euphoria would quickly wear off. The endless speeches and slogans would become tiresome; the urban bivouac would lose its glamor. The demonstrators numbers would slowly dwindle until the most stalwart holdouts finally returned to their dorms...
...added that the commission would probably not use its perogative to petition the City Council to declare the building a protected landmark, which would prevent construction altogether...