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Nakogov's Congeries is not a "Complete Nakobov," but it does offer from that tomb-like quality of the Collected Works of Dead Dull Author. There is not much point in printing selections from novels, and the poems are better forgotten. For the reader who knows Nakobov, Congeries is redundant; for the reader who does not, the many paperback editions of Nabokov are a better introduction...
...year ago, Yale University took a good slap in the face when Vassar College turned down its offer of educational "cooperation." Undaunted, Kingman Brewster ploughed ahead in his search for girls, and last week his efforts climaxed in the announcement that--after 267 unisexual years--Yale has yielded to The Women...
...disappointed in its efforts to find peace in Viet Nam. At first, his admonition seemed unwarranted. From most of the world's capitals, including Moscow, came only praise for the President's action. More important, as a silent signal of Hanoi's acceptance of the U.S. offer, the battlefields of South Viet Nam, which have been relatively quiet for the past month, became almost totally still. Then, to Washington's dismay, the U.S. peace initiative foundered on the obduracy of its principal allies, the South Vietnamese. As a result, last week's scheduled session...
Production Binge. Gulf & Western's bid came in the form of a tender offer involving securities that it valued at more than $1.4 billion. Sinclair President O. P. (for Orlando Pendleton) Thomas' counterproposal of a get-together with Atlantic Richfield called for an exchange of stock worth slightly more than the Gulf & Western package. The extra money was not Thomas' main motive. In a letter to shareholders, his company questioned Gulf & Western...
Final Decisions. Gulf & Western remained unimpressed by the merits of the Atlantic Richfield deal. Instead of giving up the fight, it called a special meeting of its directors, who decided to go ahead with the tender offer for Sinclair stock. It was only fitting, argued one Gulf & Western official, that Sinclair shareholders should make "the final decision" about their company's merger possibilities...