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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ray Seldomridge...
...billion). Early in 1977, when the company's shares were selling for $35, Babcock management rejected a tender offer from United Technologies Corp. of $42 a share for all its stock; opposition continued when the offer was raised to $48. Last week Babcock accepted a bid from J. Ray McDermott & Co., a New Orleans-based firm best known for its production of oil-drilling rigs, of $55 for 35% of its shares. At week's end United raised its offer to $55 each for "any and all" of Babcock's 12.2 million shares, an offer that...
Presuming Voyager 2 overcomes its troubles, the twin flight is a unique project. The Voyagers go elaborately equipped for sightseeing. They carry wide-and narrow-angle television cameras, cosmic ray detectors, magnetometers, infra-red spectrometers and radiometers, as well as instruments for detecting and recording ultraviolet radiation and radio emissions from the planets. They will, it is hoped, give man his closest look yet at Jupiter, a planet that contains more matter than all the other planets in the solar system put together. The pair will also devote a good deal of attention to four of Jupiter...
Personally, Ray says he aims to keep his family life "average-despite the peculiar spelling of my last name." He lives in an unpretentious upper-middle-class house in North Dallas with his wife Nancy, who was a classmate at Southern Methodist University, and their four children, and drives a five-year-old Buick. Friends describe him as earnest and rather dull at parties. Politically, Hunt calls himself moderate, and by family standards he is. He has supported conservative candidates, but talks of the need for business and government to work together, a view that would have been anathema...
...office, Ray keeps his door open to almost any employee who wants to see him-though he always has a stack of phone messages on his desk to riffle through if the conversation drags. Some of his colleagues are concerned that he may even be a bit too polite and deferential. Says one Dallas businessman: "He's the last one out of the elevator and the last one walking down the hall. But I'm not sure he can twist arms or kick butts like he'll have to in order to run a good business...