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...Pont's top officers immediately huddled at their Wilmington, Del., headquarters to size up the new Seagram challenge. During a marathon session in the walnut-paneled executive committee room, Chairman Jefferson exhorted his troops: "Du Pont is a strong company, and we're going into this thing...
...suffering from what Wall Streeters call the Conoco syndrome are now swarming to buy shares of corporations they think will be the next takeover targets. Their favorites seem to be medium-size oil companies. In the past two weeks, the price of Cities Service stock has surged by 12%, Marathon Oil shares by 19% and Kerr-McGeeby...
...Canadian national hero by running halfway across the country on an artificial leg in 1980, eventually raising more than $20 million for cancer research; of cancer; in Vancouver, B.C. An outstanding soccer and basketball player before he lost his right leg to cancer in 1977, Fox began his "marathon of hope" in St. John's, Nfld., covering 3,317 miles in 4½ months, before the disease, which had spread to his lungs, forced him to abandon the venture near Thunder Bay, Ont. Said he: "I wanted to show people that just because they're disabled...
...things delight subscribers-or editors-of medical journals more than accounts of new and weird ailments. Over the years readers of the New England Journal of Medicine have been treated to numerous such "first reports." Among them: cyclist's pudendal neuritis (genital numbness from marathon bike rides on poorly padded seats), water-skier's enema (the result of high-speed falls in a sitting position) and disco felon (a finger infection from constant finger snapping on the dance floor...
...festival like this is a very rare occurrence: right now no other troupe could assemble the artistic talent to stage such a creative marathon. Among the real pleasures of attending one of the 14 soldout performances was the opportunity to guess which ballets will make it into the permanent repertory...