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...Boone Pickens Jr., chairman of Mesa Petroleum. Although Pickens lost a proxy battle to gain control of Gulf in December, his group holds 13.2% of the oil company's stock. In addition, Pickens has offered to buy an additional 8.1% of Gulf for $65 a share in a tender offer that takes effect at midnight on March 21. If successful, he might go ahead with his plan for a drastic restructuring of the company...
Whether Newman meant the facile sentiment of the ending to be taken at face value remains unclear. There are some unconvincing maudlin touches towards the end of the story--the son sells a story titled "Harry"; and Harry has a tender romance with a zany phrenologist...
Known as the "country of eternal springtime," Guatemala appears peaceful. Late-model cars breeze along the capital's tree-lined boulevards, and restaurants draw crowds with such delicacies as imported stone crabs and tender churrasco steaks. But that façade of tranquillity conceals some unpleasant facts. According to Western diplomats, the average number of violent deaths each week has increased from 150 under former President Efraín Ríos Montt to 190. Daily newspapers display incongruously cheerful pictures of students and young professionals who have "disappeared." Earlier this month an engineering student known for his leftist...
...Russia, Gorbachev holds a law degree from Moscow State University and another degree in agronomy from the Stavropol Agricultural Institute. His knowledge of farming, the weak link in Soviet economic planning, won him a place in the Secretariat and catapulted him into the Politburo's inner circle at the tender age of 49. Continuing failures on the farm have cut short the careers of past agricultural experts, but Gorbachev appears to be flourishing even though he has presided over a string of bad harvests (before the much improved 200 million-ton yield...
During the Depression, he bought a 40-acre farm in North Brooklin on the Maine sea-coast (where he lives to this day), and beat the first of several retreats from the tender trap of The New Yorker. A mystified Ross was heard to complain: "He just sails around in some God damn boat." During his sabbaticals White also compiled (with Katharine) the enormously successful A Subtreasury of American Humor; he revised and updated the yellowing strictures of one of his Cornell English professors into The Elements of Style, a tiny textbook that has sold in the millions; he wrote...