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Rumors of a merger between the largest American cigarette company and one of the biggest food-and-beverage firms had been wafting through Wall Street for months. Even so, the terse statement from General Foods early last week that it had received an "unsolicited telephone proposal" for a merger with an unidentified partner sent the company's stock from $84.88 to $110.25 in just three days...
Springborn has been an early riser for years, but there is now special urgency to his work as director of the Treasury's office of foreign-exchange operations. Since last week's meeting of finance ministers from the five largest industrial democracies, reining in the dollar has become a matter of passionate U.S. concern. Unlike stocks, bonds or even pork bellies, currencies are not traded in one or two large buildings in a few major cities. The foreign-exchange market is a worldwide network of private banks, linked by phones and computers, that buy and sell money round the clock...
...been billed as the largest gathering of world leaders in history. To commemorate the 40th anniversary of the United Nations, heads of state or government have begun to descend on New York City; at least 90 will have called before the end of October. They may or may not further the cause of world peace in a forum that has failed to live up to its impossibly dreamy promise as arbiter of global disputes. But the assembled dignitaries will surely provide a rich spectacle of diplomatic pomp and a torrent of high- minded rhetoric, not to mention traffic jams that...
...that week, along with dozens of Prime Ministers and several potentates, including a few Kings. The Secret Service will airlift the President's bulletproof, armored Lincoln Continental on an Air Force transport from Washington, but foreign dignitaries will have to make do with rented limos. Fugazy, New York's largest limousine purveyor, offers cars equipped with flag holders, but the company reports that only six such autos have been requested. Few heads of state, it seems, are eager to alert terrorists by announcing their presence. Bracketing most official cars are station wagons filled with security agents carrying Uzi submachine guns...
...radical leftist undergraduates but by professors and graduate students. Anti-Star Wars petitions are circulating on at least 48 campuses, from the University of Utah to Princeton. At the University of Illinois at Champaign- Urbana, 53 of the 70 full professors in the physics department, which is the second largest in the U.S., have pledged not to seek SDI funds and signed a statement that calls the program "deeply misguided, dangerous and enormously expensive." About half the engineering and physics faculty members at Cornell have signed a similar denunciation of SDI. The professors argue that deployment of a Star Wars...