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...billion hostile bid for pharmaceutical maker American Cyanamid. At $95 a share, the offer was fully $32 a share more than Cyanamid's recent trading price, which made its shareholders the envy of Wall Street. Moreover, the staggering bid arrived while investors were still humming with reports that the Norfolk Southern railroad was in talks to acquire Conrail, once a sickly ward of the government but now a healthy freight hauler, in a deal that would create the second largest U.S. rail carrier...
Another hint: a White House official says the Administration hopes to have human monitors stationed on the border "within a few weeks" -- which does not sound as though he expects the country to be under U.S. military occupation quickly. An Army officer at the U.S. Atlantic Command in Norfolk, Virginia, who has read the cable traffic on Haiti guesses that if an invasion is ordered -- and it has not been yet -- it will occur during the first two weeks in August. Vague hints about the end of July had been dropped by some Administration officials, but they were based partly...
Dimbleby captured Charles talking to residents of a decrepit public-housing project in Birmingham and mixing with unemployed young people attending a training program in Norfolk funded by one of his charitable trusts. He was also shown as an intrepid foreign traveler. On camera he projected an awkward charm, both endearing and genuine. In a Bedouin tent on the edge of the Arabian desert, he sipped camel's milk from a plastic cup. In Mexico he picked at a gooey plate of lamb. "I always dread having something like that," he said, "in case it is laced with chilies, which...
...shallows. Show us, said the Navy. Higgins took over an entire block of New Orleans' Polyminia Street, set up floodlights, put machines and people to work around the clock. Fourteen days later, with the last paint applied as the freight flatcars clacked east, nine Higgins boats rolled into Norfolk, Virginia. The Navy would use 20,094 of the homely floaters before the war ended...
Harvard students, however, will not be able to vote or sign petitions for the OCS employee because Cambridge is not one of the thirty towns in his district, which extends from Back Bay to Norfolk to Wellesley...