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Texaco Attorney Richard Miller tried to show that Getty's agreement with Houston-based Pennzoil was never consummated. Getty Board Member Henry Wendt testified that the offer of $110 a share by Pennzoil's Liedtke was "hostile" and said the board had rejected it on Jan. 2. Miller argued that Getty's board had felt trapped by Pennzoil's offer and sought out a so-called white knight to be a friendlier merger partner...
College courses on the presidency and the number of students who attend them have grown dramatically. The University of Virginia's White Burkett Miller Center of Public Affairs, which is oriented toward the presidency, started its scholarly presentations seven years ago with audiences of just under 30 participants and now draws up to 80. The center is making plans to build a small auditorium for the forums...
...fatal accidents in the past 25 years while flying 135 million aircraft hours--a rate that works out to one accident for the industry for every 978,000 hours in the air. Most planes are well maintained and skillfully operated. Yet there is room for improvement. Says C.O. Miller, president of System Safety, a Virginia consulting firm that has frequently been critical of airline practices: "Overall, I would say that the general quality of aviation in our country is very good, and in some ways excellent. But safety weaknesses in civil aviation do exist. They reflect the fallibility of individual...
...lectured by Louis B. Mayer: "My dear child, you are going to be a star . . . I would rather you weren't seen with any of the lower echelon of employees." Harry Cohn, the caliph of Columbia Pictures, learns that Choreographer Jack Cole has pronounced a script for Ann Miller garbage. Cohn agrees, but demands, "What . . . does it matter to her? She's just a dumb broad with large thighs." Introduced to Kim Stanley, who was to be nominated for an Academy Award, Cohn asks her director, "Why are you bringing me this girlie? She's not even pretty...
...keep studying this thing to death," Lewis said after reporting to the President. But Budget Director Jim Miller asked the obvious question: "Where do we get the money?" The proposal calls for half the funds to come from the Government and half from the polluting industries. Reagan, who has argued privately that acid rain is a natural rather than a man-made phenomenon, promised only to give the report careful consideration. AUTO SAFETY More States Buckle...