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...have been fueling growth through a string of acquisitions. Allied's sales have more than doubled since Hennessy became chief executive in 1979. He had previously worked for two celebrated conglomerate builders, Harry Gray at United Technologies and Harold Geneen at ITT. Geneen sent his former deputy a congratulatory telegram last week saying "Great work." During his tenure at Allied, Hennessy acquired nearly 35 companies. His most dramatic coup came after a long and nasty takeover battle: the 1982 purchase of Bendix, an aerospace and automotive-parts manufacturer...
...PLAIN folks, sending a telegram overseas usually costs about a dollar or two. But last week Washington spent $1.5 billion on a message to our allies and the Soviets. By okaying funds for the controversial MX missile and thereby ending years of rancorous debate, Congress showed for all the world its readiness to back President Reagan's peace through strength rhetoric with action...
Capital Cities also holds licenses for 12 radio stations and owns more than 50 cable television systems. It also owns the Fairchild Publications business newspaper group and daily newspapers include the Times and the Star in Kansas City, Mo; the Star-Telegram in Fort Worth, Texas; and the Oakland Press in Pontiac, Mich...
...carry on the battle for hearts and minds with a book, a weekly syndicated newspaper column on international affairs and a busy schedule of speaking engagements. Kirkpatrick merely smiled as talk turned to a possible presidential candidacy in 1988, but there was no equivocating over a mock recruiting telegram from Georgetown's top-ranked Hoyas. "How about that!" said Kirkpatrick as she opened the accompanying gift of basketball jersey, shorts and a pair of snappy reflecting sunglasses. "Go Hoyas!" she cheered. And look out under the hoop, you guys...
...return fire. Said Arizona Republican Barry Goldwater, the new chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee: "I found Mr. Stockman's remarks about as distasteful as anything I've heard coming out of this Administration or any other." The following day the Veterans of Foreign Wars sent an angry telegram to President Reagan announcing: THE V.F.W. WILL NOT BE SATISFIED UNTIL THE 4-F DRAFT-DODGING STOCKMAN HAS BEEN FIRED AND YOU HAVE REPUDIATED HIS VIEWS. (As a Harvard divinity student, Stockman received a 4-D deferment during the Viet...