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...back -- and bigger and bolder than ever. Last week top executives at RJR Nabisco stunned Wall Street by proposing what would be the biggest takeover in U.S. history: a $17.6 billion leveraged buyout by management of the tobacco and food conglomerate. (Among its top brands: Winston cigarettes, Oreo cookies, Ritz crackers and Life Savers candy.) The RJR executives, with the help of the Shearson Lehman Hutton investment firm, hope to borrow close to $16 billion to finance the deal. If the transaction is completed, it would eclipse Chevron's $13.3 billion acquisition of Gulf Oil in 1984 as the largest...
Quayle's own preparation started more than three weeks ago, when Henry Kissinger met with the candidate and other advisers at Washington's Ritz- Carlton hotel to provide a three-hour tour d'horizon of world affairs. Over the next few weeks, Quayle aides concocted more than 200 possible questions. In the week before the debate, Quayle, intensively coached by Bush media guru Roger Ailes, performed two mock debate rehearsals with Oregon Senator Bob Packwood playing Bentsen. At one point Packwood rudely interrupted so the handlers could see how Quayle would react. They even considered faking a power failure...
...house gyms and workout rooms, along with the requisite terry-cloth robes. Now some hoteliers are adding a twist: lending sporting goods and clothes to guests at no extra charge. In several cases, the manufacturers provide the merchandise free in an effort to snare new customers. Boston's Ritz-Carlton offers Rockport walking shoes, Spalding baseball equipment and Canadian Royal skates. The rival Four Seasons Hotel in Boston hands out Reebok shoes. At the RiverPlace Alexis Hotel in Portland, Ore., guests can don Nike jogging suits and shoes. The sporting-goods company, based in nearby Beaverton, is negotiating with three...
Kumin's fascination with sugar and chocolate began early. Growing up in Switzerland, he tarried before the windows of bakery shops on the way to school. After a thorough indoctrination in exacting Swiss hotel kitchens, Kumin arrived in North America in 1948. He became pastry chef at Montreal's Ritz-Carleton. In 1958 he was hired by Restaurant Associates, the Manhattan- based concern that operated the Four Seasons and the Forum of the Twelve Caesars...
Ready for a change from the urban music scene? Check out the Jazz Ball at Crane's Castle in Ipswich, Ma. tonight. Kick back and listen to the Ritz play on the expansive lawn of plumbing magnate Thomas Crane's beachfront estate on the North Shore. Tickets are $20 and $25 for reserved seating. Call 358-7774 for more details...