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Gulf Oil seeks help to escape a corporate raider...
...says IOP Fellow David R. Gergen, the President's former director of communications. Returning to call the plays as campaign chairman is Sen. Paul Laxalt (R.-Nev.), the person on Capitol Hill closest to Reagan; the chief strategist and campaign manager is Ed Rollins, a former Oakland Raider and assistant to the president for political affairs in the White House. The Reagan team also managed to grab consultant Stu Spencer, the premier political tactician who gave President Gerald Ford's 1976 campaign the only real intellectual power it ever...
Then there are other ploys called shark repellents. One of those involves revising corporate bylaws to stagger the terms of directors so that only a few come up for election in any one year. To get a majority, a raider would have to wait at least two years...
Though the actual groundbreaking is years away, preparation has already started. The guidebook for this magical museum was published late last year. Ronald Reagan's Reign of Error, by Mark Green (a former Nader Raider) and Gail MacColl (a veteran preppie parodist who worked on The Preppie Handbook and an L.L. Bean catalogue spoof), diligently tallies the seemingly endless stream of Reagan's assertions that only the "Great Communicator" himself has been able to substantiate...
First year Cornell Coach Marie Baugham watched Colgate score 32 second half points to blow open the game. Red Raider quarterback Steve Calabria passed for three touchdowns and ran for another...