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...sweetening his offer to English Electric shareholders. But until terms of the agreement with British G.E. are made public, he will have obviously no idea about how much to raise the ante. An alternative for Clark would be to merge Plessey with another firm, one possibility being Hawker Siddeley Group Ltd., an aircraft and diesel-engine manufacturer. And he can always hope for a miracle, like the government's withdrawing its approval of the proposed merger. In the U.S., the Justice Department would cast the dourest eye on a get-together between such large competitors. But Harold Wilson...
Died. Sir Roy Dobson, 76, chairman (1963-67) of the giant Hawker Siddeley Group and wartime head of A. V. Roe & Co., makers of the famed Lancaster bomber; of lung cancer; in Midhurst, England. The emphasis was on fighters in 1940, and Aircraft Czar Lord Beaverbrook turned Dobson down when he asked permission to build a super-bomber; Avro tackled the project on its own, by war's end had produced 7,500 "Lancs" which helped pound Nazi Germany into rubble...
...thinks it's the only way to fly," observed Richard Burton, 41, explaining why he had bought a "Hawker Siddeley de Havilland Twin Jet 125, one million dollars, seats ten, two beds, toilette, kitchen, bar, 600 miles per hour." Name Elizabeth. The munificent gift to Mrs. B. was a token of "the huge success of The Taming of the Shrew, of which we have a very large percentage," said Burton. And no worry about the family coffers being depleted. The Burtons are tucking another $2,000,000 under the mattress in Sardinia, where they are making Goforth, the hopeful...
...kidnaping was a bizarre episode. He had flown from Madrid, where he lives in exile, to Palma on the island of Majorca for a few days' rest, accompanied by two security agents assigned by the Franco government to protect him. Next day a sleek executive Hawker Siddeley 125 touched down in Palma on a flight from Geneva. On board were four passengers, including two whom Tshombe already knew. One was a Frenchman named Francis Bodenan, whom he had become acquainted with a few weeks earlier, the other a Belgian named Marcel Hambursin. The remaining passengers were a convicted Belgian...
...More troubled is Wichita's Lear Jet, which found itself stuck with $9,000,000 worth of unsold planes, had to merge last spring with Gates Rubber to get needed working capital. The slowdown is not confined to American makers. Britain's Hawker Siddeley, which delivered 65 of its jets to U.S. corporations between 1964 and 1966, sold only seven more during this year's first five months...