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Nowhere did investors benefit more handsomely than on Wall Street. Abruptly abandoning a costly seven-year struggle to break up AT&T, the world's largest business corporation (1981 revenues: $58.2 billion), the U.S. Justice Department agreed to a surprising out-of-court settlement in which Ma Bell pledged to divest itself of about 75% of its total assets in return for permission to compete freely in telecommunications and computer markets. The action directly affected some 3.2 million shareholders, who late next year will receive, in addition to each ten shares of AT&T then held, one share...
After his Wednesday night speech in the Science Center on Selective Service, General Turnage invited dozens of questions by pointing his finger and saying "Yes. Sir." He never said "Yes, Ma'am" because he didn't call on any women. This is the question I never got to ask: "General, you say that nine million registered men are more than enough to fight a war. If only white men and women were drafted, they would probably be enough too, but Selective Service registration doesn't discriminate explicitly with regard to skin color. Why then does...
DIED. Joseph Kipness, 71, bouncy, bustling Broadway producer and restaurateur (Joe's Pier 52), who with bottomless enthusiasm made and lost fortunes backing such hits as La Plume de Ma Tante and High Button Shoes (727 performances) and flops like Frankenstein (which lasted one night and cost more than $2 million); of cancer; in New York City...
...instant fortunes" and Salada launched a massive media blitz under the ficticious premise that American Gypsies were boycotting the product. The campaign, let by Comedian Stan Freedberg and the mysterious Gypsy leader "Vladimir Krim," featured television ads depicting a Gypsy encampment on the ground of the company's Wobrun, MA headquarters. "It was a real laugh, "Bates recall. In the late '50s pilots on Eastern Airlines read their tags over the P.A. systems, and some tags featured "instant winner" cash prizes of 10 to 100 dollars...
President Bok, as usual, said he was Design Work by Myron Goldsmith; This exhibition features photographs, models, and drawings of the architectural designs of Myron Goldsmith. Gand Hall lobby, Harvard Graduate School of Design, 48 Quincy St., Cambridge MA. October 26-November 12, Monday-Sunday, 9 a.m. 5 p.m. pledged to survey. "If word get our show would a run on our supplies, " he explained from his Ellsworth A yeas house...