Word: offer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Next week economics department chairman Otto Eckstein will meet with the leaders of this summer's experiment to discuss the first results. If the project has met with success, economics 1 may next year become the first Harvard course to offer instruction by computer...
...Nixon. So his initial speech was taken up with an explanation of how he had been on the Johnny Carson show and had spoken of his childhood desire to be a concert pianist at which point Mr. Carson suggested that he play the piano for the people now, an offer which was taken up, and then how he felt a thrill of excitement as he played and then more of a thrill as the people in the audience applauded him louder than he had ever heard before. Unfortunately, Mr. Nixon was suddenly cut off and did not have time...
...basis of last week's offer, Howard Hughes did not look like a savior in Goldenson's eyes. According to the tender put together by Loeb, Rhoades (which should collect at least $500,000 in fees if the proposition goes through), Hughes would buy ABC shares at $74.25 apiece. That would be about $15 above the market price when the offer was first made, although the Hughes magic started ABC share values spinning last week, and the stock closed the week at 68 1/4, up ten points. A major objection from the network's viewpoint is that...
...doubtful that the offer, which has another week to run, will succeed. The Federal Communications Commission has entered the scene, particularly because Hughes already owns one television station in Las Vegas (KLAS-TV) and control of ABC would give him five more stations, one above the legal limit. The FCC last week ordered Hughes not to try to exercise control of the network without its approval...
...SPOCK: "Johnson is still hoping to win, at the negotiating table, what he has been unable to win on the battle-field. From what I have seen, I don't think Johnson is prepared to offer anything to the Vietnamese. And while we wait, 1000 or 2000 Americans are dying every month in Vietnam. The conference is a very ingenious way to take the pressure off himself [Johnson] and Vice-President Humphrey, and it takes some of the wind out of McCarthy's sails...