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...book's protagonist, Jayson Lyman, is an investment banker who grips his peach-colored Financial Times "like a swagger stick." Advised by his boss that French magnate Marcel Bresson is out to buy News/Worldweek, Lyman is ready to leap to the American company's defense. "You mean foreigners, the French of all people, think they can take over the biggest media company in America? They'll get their butts kicked!" But Lyman's boss informs him that their firm has been retained by the other side...
Plagued by misgivings during the ensuing takeover battle, Lyman joins the search for Bresson's real identity. The French magnate owns no real estate and has no fixed address, except for the 325-ft. yacht docked at Monte Carlo. A reporter looking into Bresson's origins turns up dead. And the magnate's dentist tells Lyman that Bresson's "cement" filling could have been done only in the Soviet Union...
...Congress call for a moratorium on granting animal patents until the issues can be examined more completely. Farm groups, for example, feel genetically altered livestock could raise production costs, since farmers might have to pay royalty fees to biotech concerns every time their prize livestock give birth. Says Howard Lyman, an analyst for the National Farmer's Union: "This is an economic issue...
Chester Finn, who spoke in front of an audience of about 40 people in the Lyman Room of Longfellow Hall yesterday afternoon, said the federal government's education policy is mired in the past, and must change in order to address serious concerns about the national educational product...
...that senior officials of the CIA's intelligence division and Pentagon planners were briefed at all stages of the discussion. According to Pfeiffer, the conventional view casting Bissell as the villain of the tale is reflected in a damning report by the CIA's inspector general at the time, Lyman Kirkpatrick. Although Kirkpatrick, 70, who resigned from the CIA in 1965, ordered the destruction of all the records on which his report was based, Pfeiffer managed to uncover the material. He says it led him to conclude that Kirkpatrick had deliberately skewed the report to discredit Bissell...