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Instead the ancient Douglas headed north over the Gulf of Mexico, flying through the night with no approved flight plan or warning lights and maintaining radio silence. Neither the Federal Aviation Administration nor the North American Air Defense Command (NORAD) picked it up on radar as it flew low into dense fog over Louisiana. The foreign invaders might have escaped detection altogether but for the fact that their plane lost power and crash-landed in the trees near Farmerville, just south of the Arkansas-Louisiana border...
...second consecutive year, 150 Tufts students--mostly sophomores with low numbers in the housing lottery--will reside in rooms at the Sheraton Commander Hotel on Garden St. Last year, when Tufts found itself overcrowded, the university negotiated a deal with the Sheraton to provide rooms in a wing of the hotel...
...result of lower prices for North Sea crude and of marketing losses in Continental Europe. BP, which has total operating freedom from the politicians in Whitehall, has long emphasized crude production over marketing. The company produces the "blackest" barrel of oil in Europe-that with the largest proportion of low-profit heavy fuel-and early this year closed its biggest refinery, in Rotterdam, for two months because of poor sales. On the other hand, it has done the best job of any Sister in exploiting new oil finds and cutting itself loose from OPEC. As late as 1970, according...
...being aggressively traditional. Following a Wall Street fashion, Lehman and other firms have been busy turning themselves into financial "supermarkets" that do everything from securities trading and corporate advice to merger brokering. Yet Lazard has remained a loosely structured group of partners; it aims to avoid large-volume low-profit activities like brokerage and remain a "deal" firm specializing in big corporate sales and mergers. A recent Lazard achievement: it put together Chrysler's sale of its European operations to Peugeot. While, at larger firms, the earnings from such deals are typically shared by all the partners, at Lazard...
Ivan Doig avoids such traps. Exercising a talent at once robust and sensitive, he redeems the promise of those first fetching sentences. His mother's final breath came in a remote Montana place where "a low rumple of the mountain knolls itself up watchfully, and atop it, like a sentry box over the frontier between the sly creek and the prodding meadow, perches our single-room herding cabin." They were, he and his parents, "secure as hawks with wind under our wings...