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Coffman further stated that he had made the offer of a parcel of land in a letter to L. Gard Wiggins, administrative vice-president of the University, but had not received an answer. Wiggins, who was unavailable for coment last night, aparently still hopes that the University's bid on the property will be accepted. Asked earlier if the University would consider raising its offer, Wiggins indicated that it would not and emphasized that the MTA was under no obligation to accept the highest...
...biggest buying and selling yet. Breaking off the biggest single chunk of his $60 million Southern empire, Milner swapped his thriving household-products business (Perma Starch, Mystic Foam Cleaner, Pine-Sol) with American Cyanamid for $11 million in Cyanamid stock. At the same time, he sold off a parcel of Southern hotels and motels for $10 million in cash...
Vellucci explained that Harvard was anxious "to help solve a problem that they are creating themselves in Harvard Sq.," and suggested swapping the land now owned by the University for a parcel from the Bennett St. M.I.T. yards...
...morning last week bustled the everyday traffic from Hong Kong: pongee-clad farmers hauling produce, old women bent double under sacks of flour, visitors with gifts for relatives on the mainland. By mid-morning 200 travelers had crossed the frontier, and one of them was carrying a lethal parcel. Then, as the line shuffled through Red China's wooden customs shed, a powerful blast splintered the building, killed an inspector and a woman traveler, injured 27 others...
They were even ordered to check the two-pound parcels of food that pour into the hungry mainland at the rate of more than 1,000,000 a month. Day after the explosion that sealed the border, a bomb was found in a food parcel...