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...baron agreed to buy Triangle Publications, which puts out TV Guide (circ. 17.1 million), the Daily Racing Form (123,000) and Seventeen (1.9 million), from Walter Annenberg, the California businessman and philanthropist, for $3 billion. While TV Guide may be the undisputed king of television listings and boast the largest circulation of any U.S. magazine, media experts concur that Murdoch is paying a premium price that will add to his already considerable debt load. But Murdoch, 57, has been a gambler since his teenage days, when he bet on cards and horses. And no one disputes that...
...goal of developing the most powerful communications empire in the world. After the deal is completed, the U.S. circulation of Murdoch's magazines, which include New York and New Woman, will total some 25 million. That will put News Corp. at roughly the same level as Time Inc., the largest U.S. magazine publisher...
...have stockpiles well in excess of that amount.) More significantly, Moscow acceded last August to U.S. demands for on-site inspections of chemical weapons depots. Two months later, the Soviets were host to a delegation of Western military officials, who toured a plant at Shikhany, supposedly the U.S.S.R.'s largest chemical-weapons facility...
...merge with Louis Vuitton, the equally upscale maker of luggage and handbags bearing the distinctive LV trademark. After the deal was signed, the top executives of the two French firms raised champagne glasses to toast their new creation, LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton, one of the world's largest luxury-goods conglomerates (projected 1988 revenues: $2.6 billion...
...eight scientists aboard a sealing boat off the island of Jan Mayen, 640 miles west of Norway, peered through their binoculars last week and were elated. Arching through the icy waters were ten blue whales, the largest creatures on earth. Blues once flourished in the Norwegian and Barents seas but almost vanished from the area after intensive hunting by Norway and the Soviet Union...