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...restaurants and airlines. But now investors will be able to choose under a novel stock plan devised by tobacco and food giant RJR Nabisco. As part of a deal to raise $1.5 billion to reduce its $14 billion debt, RJR Nabisco will create two new classes of stock: RN-Reynolds, which will mainly represent the company's tobacco business, and RN-Nabisco, a proxy for the firm's food operations. RJR Nabisco is the nation's largest cookiemaker and the second biggest cigarette manufacturer...
...What we have to realize is the cold fact that both Sidey and Osborne are totally against us," Nixon dictated to Aides Bob Haldeman and Ron Ziegler on April 14. "They are not honest reporters. Both have spoken in the most vicious derogatory terms of RN in the place where you really find out what the people think -- the Georgetown cocktail parties . . . From now through the election, neither Sidey nor Osborne is to be included in the news summary regardless of what they write, positive or negative . . . I am now ordering . . . that Osborne and Sidey...
...improve the odds that posterity will see things his way, Nixon has outlined his version of what happened in his memoir RN (1978); in two books about superpower conflict, The Real War (1980) and Real Peace (1984); and in No More Vietnams, published this month (Arbor House; 237 pages; $14.95). The compact volume serves four purposes: 1) to retrace American involvement in Viet Nam by recounting, often disapprovingly but also with some sympathy, decisions made by his predecessors stretching back to Harry Truman; 2) to defend Nixon's own record, sometimes more emphatically than in his muted memoir...
...fitness-minded businessmen. All the Boss ads feature a tall, square-jawed model who looks like a health-club regular. "We are completely aware that 70% of men's clothing decisions are made by females," says Uwe. The company also has recruited such top athletes as Björn Borg, the five-time Wimbledon tennis champion, and Jürgen Hingsen, the world-record holder and Olympic silver medalist in the decathlon, to wear the Boss line...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Mariana Simionescu, 27, former Rumanian tennis star who gave up her career to be a tournament wife; and Bjŏrn Borg, 28, alltime tennis great (five Wimbledon championships, six French Open titles) who retired last year after international competition stopped being "fun"; by mutual consent after four years of marriage, no children; in Monte Carlo...