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...share bid by Florida-based Investor Victor Posner unless a better offer comes along. Posner, an aggressive and frequently feared accumulator of big blocks of corporate stock, controls more than 26% of Royal Crown's shares. Separately, a Castle & Cooke-led group dropped its efforts to swallow Dr Pepper, another beverage company, which is planning to sell out to Forstmann Little & Co., a private investment firm. Dr Pepper picked Forstmann Little even though its $22-a-share bid was $2 less than the Castle & Cooke group offer. Said Joe Hughes, executive vice president of Dr Pepper: "The Castle & Cooke...
...government agency must now decide whether it can be distributed throughout the Soviet Union and overseas. Yevtushenko insists he will make no cuts. "I won't change anything now," he says. "I will not give in to censorship. If you give one finger to censorship, it will swallow your whole body and spit out bits of your flesh...
Harvard controlled the game's tempo through most of the contest, but midway through the second half it looked like the Crimson was destined to swallow defeat number 17 at the hands of the Lions, who did not start their leading scorer, George Meikle, for disciplinary reasons...
...Sophie, he was highly vulnerable. The route of his procession to the town hall that June 28 was widely known; his open touring car made him an easy mark. Each of the seven assassins stationed along the route carried a pistol, a bomb and a vial of cyanide to swallow if captured...
EACH YEAR the swallow's return to Capistrano and we are reminded that nature prevails and that things haven't changed too much. Other things don't happen quite so often but do give us something to look forward to. A whole generation awaits the 1986 return of Halley's Comet from its 75 year trip around the solar system. A little closer to home every four years Harold E. Stassen runs for president...