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...another major development is expected to beannounced for the DeWolfe St. parking lot nowowned by St. Paul's Church. (see accompanyingstory). The church plans to lease the land toraise money for renovations of the choir school,though negotiations for a leaser have not begun...
...Vague. While both companies' boards and stockholders have yet to approve the plan, however, it clearly made sense to Xerox President C. Peter McColough and C.I.T. Chairman L. Walter Lundell, the men who shook hands on the deal. As primarily a leaser rather than a seller of machines, Xerox needs constant access to borrowed capital, which C.I.T. now handles in sums that total up to $2 billion at any given time. Xerox has been in the market for merger partners or acquisitions for several years, ever since former President Joseph Wilson decided that "our future depends on what...
...brought an offer of peace. Hitler, he said, would guarantee the integrity of the British Empire if England would recognize Germany's dominance in Europe. Drawing for the first time on all the old and new information about Hess's strange, ill-fated mission, Journalist-Historian James Leaser (The Red Fort, The Plague and the Fire) has produced an absorbing footnote to history...
...follows Hess through every stage of his secret preparation. As an ex-World War I pilot and the No. 3 man in Nazi Germany, Hess easily managed to finagle the use for "practice flights" of an experimental Messerschmidt 110 with extra gas tanks. Aides surreptitiously collected weather charts. Though Leaser's attempt to weld such details into a tale of step-by-step suspense is not entirely successful, his account has some touching vignettes of Hess-playing with his four-year-old son for the last time; standing uncertainly in the door of his wife's room...
Sane but Psychotic. Was Hess mad? Was his mission an insane gamble? Author Leaser thinks not. He does not gloss over any of Hess's strange behavior (Hess once had magnets fixed around his bed to draw harmful influences from his body). But like the panel of psychiatrists who found Hess "psychotic but sane'' before the Nürnberg trials (where Hess got a life sentence as a Nazi war criminal). Leasor sees Hess as an unbalanced man obsessed by a childish-and thoroughly Germanic -dream of performing one great convulsive act of patriotism...