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America has become inured to colossal business mergers in the last two years. Weddings like those of Occidental Petroleum and Cities Service, United States Steel and Marathon Oil, and the record-setting $7.5 billion union of Du Pont and Conoco have sometimes been shotgun affairs, sometimes harmonious ones. Throughout, the national press has doled out coverage indiscriminately in its continual search for bigness...
...with a string of earlier felony convictions. Other jurisdictions will temper justice with less mercy. Jerdell White, 36, a smooth-talking father of five, had been to prison in Texas twice before, for burglary and marijuana convictions. He was convicted in Dallas in 1978 of possessing a sawed-off shotgun, and given a life term. In Minnesota, White would already be free...
...Everybody does it. I told them: / don't do it. I'm part of everybody." He lost that job and "drank and drank." Then he lost his lady, and one day he went after her where she worked-just to talk, he says. Nonetheless, he had a shotgun with him that went off in a scuffle with the woman's fellow employees. She was wounded. Sy didn't mean it. No, he does not see a parallel between this crime and his first trouble: pursuing a girlfriend and winding up in prison. "This time...
Just before noon one day last week, a man wearing a straw hat strolled through the back door of Bob Moore's Welding & Machine Service, Inc., a two-story shop in northwest Miami, opened fire with a shotgun, and killed eight workers and wounded three others. Then he calmly walked out the back door and, slinging his gun over his shoulder, climbed onto his bicycle and pedaled away. He did not get far. Investigators later found the gunman sprawled dead a few blocks away, his straw hat at his feet and his bike leaning haphazardly against a utility pole...
DIED. Dave Garroway, 69, hornrimmed, bow-tied founding host of NBC's Today show; by his own hand (shotgun); in Swarthmore, Pa. Today's producers were looking for a dynamic personality in 1952 until Garroway sold them on "a lean-against-the-ladder, go-to-sleep-standingup guy like me." Of his style, he once said, "I talk right to the camera as if it were the one other single person who is here with me." He mixed movie and book reviews with political reports, as well as off-hand comments on personal passions such as sports cars...