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...deal seemed set. On Sunday night of the July Fourth weekend, Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson flew from his headquarters in Wilmington, Del., aboard a King Air twin-engine turboprop to Stamford, Conn., for a midnight meeting with Conoco Chairman Ralph Bailey in that company's boardroom rotunda. Just after 1 a.m. the two weary, rumpled chief executives settled final details, sealed the agreement with a handshake and retired to Bailey's office for a round of Scotch and bourbon. Du Pont was paying some $7 billion in cash and stock for Conoco. The union could form...
Phills equalled McNerney's performance, dropping a notch from his finish at last year's tourney. He won twice on Saturday, but Sunday proved to be his downfall, as he lost in overtime to Syracuse's Larry Rotunda...
Regulation time ended with the score tied at two, but Rotunda, who went on to win the title, was able to pull out a 5-1 overtime decision...
...which was that there was no news about takeoffs in Tehran. He called him away from coffee with the Reagans in the Blue Room, rang him as Carter and Reagan rode together to the Capitol in the black presidential limousine, reached him again at a phone in the Capitol Rotunda. During Reagan's Inaugural speech, Carter briefly closed his red-rimmed eyes, a moment caught by television cameras. He had been praying for the hostages, he later told aides, who had wondered if he had fallen asleep...
Meanwhile, in the quiet seclusion of the Union rotunda, four freshmen spoke in conspiratorial tones of their plans for the evening. "We've decided that the philosophy Yale represents is a threat to the free world," said one, who asked not to be identified. "And so we're driving down to Yale tonight to cover the campus with giant H's," he added...