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About two hours from Detroit and Cleveland, past Toledo's Soul City House of God and Ribs Ltd., lies Lucas County Recreation Center, a humble Midwestern oasis of baseball, hot dogs and organ music, where the Mud Hens struggle with the likes of Pawtucket and Tidewater in a battle to make the International League playoffs. And people starved for the national pastime and disinterested in the major league squabbling are lining up to watch these Mud Hens play...
...graduate of both the U.S. Military Academy and Harvard Law School, Seawell rose to Air Force brigadier general and was commandant of cadets at the Air Force Academy before switching to business in 1963. He then held top posts at American Airlines and the U.S. subsidiary of Rolls-Royce Ltd. But in 1980, after a promising few years during which he pushed Pan Am's airline operations into the black for the first time since the 1960s, Seawell ran head-on into trouble...
...believed to be well in excess of $250 million, and either directly or indirectly controls nearly 300 companies involved in everything from gems to groceries, Oppenheimer hardly has absolute control over the marketplace in which his companies' goods are sold. His giant Anglo American Corp. of South Africa Ltd. two weeks ago reported 1980 profits of $1.1 billion, up 65% from 1979, but sagging gold prices point to leaner times ahead...
...York's Waldorf-Astoria for private meetings with Conoco's Bailey. Cities Service was seeking a merger for a reason surprisingly similar to Conoco's: to avert an attempted takeover of its Canadian oil and gas properties by another Canadian company, Nu-West Group Ltd., an Alberta real estate and energy exploration firm. Though less than half Conoco's size, Cities Service holds exploration rights to 10 million acres in the U.S., as well as additional acreage in Canada. A merger of Conoco and Cities Service would have created a $26 billion energy colossus, the seventh...
...around. The nation's ninth largest oil company, Conoco Inc. of Stamford, Conn. (1980 sales: $18.8 billion), became the reluctant target, rather than the proud suitor, in a corporate takeover raid. The predator was none other than Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, U.S. subsidiary of Canadian-based Seagram Co. Ltd., the world's largest liquor distiller, with 1980 global revenues of $2.5 billion...