Word: sagas
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...saga began in late 1977, when Kennecott took some of the proceeds from the Government-ordered sale of a subsidiary, Peabody Coal Co., and bought Carborundum Co., a maker of abrasives. As soon as the purchase was made, T. Roland (Ted) Berner, 70, the chairman of Curtiss-Wright, saw an opportunity. He said that Kennecott paid too much for Carborundum and that the copper company should have spent the money for improvement of its antiquated copper mines or distributed it to the shareholders. Berner then spent $75.5 million to buy 9.9% of Kennecott's shares and announced that...
...however, for a majority of the Vietnamese boat people the horrendous saga of suffering had come to a halt. According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, by the turn of the year more than 300,000 Vietnamese had been permanently settled in west. Though years 60,000 ago, a still remain in Southeast Asian camps, the resettlement record is impressive. The U.S. tops the list of countries that have accepted the Vietnamese boat people, with 185,000, followed by Canada, with 46,000, and Australia, with 38,000. France has taken in 9,000, in addition...
...saga over. One night in 1975, according to Larry Jr., a moonlighting Boston policeman drove a cab into a parking lot where the younger O'Donnell worked, and blocked the entrance. When asked to move the car, claims Larry Jr., the officer slugged the young attendant and, with the help of plainclothes colleagues who rushed over from the street, thoroughly beat him up. Now they are defendants in a $175,000 suit filed by Larry Jr., who has a book about police killings due to be published later this year...
...saga of Ryder vs. Ryder is heading into the courtroom. Ryder System last spring sued Jartran for stealing its trademark, logo and business methods. Both Ryder and Jartran trucks have two parallel, horizontal stripes across their sides and display the slogan RENT ONE WAY & LOCAL in similar designs. Jartran ads feature large pictures of James Ryder and tout him as "the man who invented truck rental." Moreover, Ryder contends that Jartran is raiding its personnel and that some 150 former Ryder employees work for the new company. Admits James Ryder: "Most of them have come on their...
None of this made him a celebrity. As he notes in this wry saga, it was his publications and authors who became household names. Those authors live again in a series of anecdotes. John O'Hara, who once threatened to "break every bone in your body" after Mayes refused to send him $25,000 forthwith for the right merely to read the manuscript of Ten North Frederick for possible excerpting. Eleanor Roosevelt, a onetime McCall's contributor, who offered him a ride home one night, though she did not have a car. "Let's both...