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Hughes became interested in Air West, which was in financial difficulty, in 1968. He was opposed by a faction on the board of directors who insisted that Hughes' tender offer of $22 per share was too low. Indeed, even after stockholders approved a sellout to Hughes at that price, the board voted 13 to 11 to refuse. At that point, the Government charges, Hughes and his cronies put into motion their strategy...
Unfortunately, as the current revival by Manhattan's Phoenix Repertory Company shows, Barry was not quite up to the company he tried to keep. He lacked Coward's dry crystal tone, Porter's slyly sexy urban ennui, Fitzgerald's tender romantic imagination and Shaw's intellect. Barry's plays are a little like cocktail parties that have begun to wind down, leaving the guests more prone to hysteria than hilarity...
...music, Britten has also in recent years given us fascinating interpretations of other composers' work −notably the Mozart G Minor Symphony and the Bach Brandenburg Concertos. The neglected Fairy Queen-half opera half masque-is perhaps his finest effort: vibrantly joyous, magisterial in its command yet tender in the plaints of the soloists (especially Bass John Shirley-Quirk's Next, winter comes slowly...
...half the deadlock was broken. After a cornerkick by Crimson team captain Lyman Bullard the ball deflected off a pile of players around the goal mouth. The ball came rolling out to Stuart Jones. "I cracked it," Jones said later. Jones' blast bounced off the Yale goal tender's chest and went into the corner of the goal to give the Harvard squad a 2-1 lead they never relinquished...
...other hand, there is no question that President Nixon has lost his effectiveness as the leader of this country, primarily because he has lost the confidence of the people, and I think, therefore, that in the interests of this nation that he loves that he should step down, should tender his resignation...