Word: tenders
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Start brunch off with one of Shanghai's soups. The tender bean curd is mostly thick and custardy; it melts in your mouth and sits in a bath of broth. We had the sweet variety, although you can order it salted as well. Another of Shanghai's sweet soups is the sesame rice ball. This is a very sweet broth containing one-inch dough balls filled with sesame seeds. They have the consistency of bubble gum and could choke even the most flexible esophagus. Keep away! If you don't like sweet things, be careful. Shanghai really sugars their stuff...
...Pretoria government from profiting by the U.S.'s gold fever, Congress last year passed a law requiring the Treasury to begin selling its own one-ounce and half-ounce gold pieces next spring. The coins, with profiles of Louis Armstrong and Mark Twain, will not be legal tender in the U.S., and will presumably be no easier to swap for real money than the Krugerrand...
...reputation during a drawnout struggle. At the start of the week, Amexco Chairman James D. Robinson III raised the company's bid for McGraw-Hill stock from $34 a share to $40, or a total of almost $1 billion in cash. But he promised not to make a tender offer to stockholders unless the majority of McGraw-Hill's board approved the bid- or at least agreed "not to oppose it by propaganda, lobbying, litigation or otherwise...
...when Harvard-trained Flom represented management and Lipton, a graduate of New York University, represented a group of dissident shareholders in the United Industrial Corp. proxy fight. It was a draw. As Lipton recalls, "Joe got four seats on the board and we got four seats." Their first big tender fight was the $84 million Colt (Flom) takeover of Garlock (Lipton) where the term "Saturday Night Special" was coined to describe Colt's lightning raid. It is impossible to estimate which lawyer has a better winning record because even when one loses he usually gains some advantages-in price...
...last years Merrick became the mini-pet of the haut monde. The Princess of Wales visited him, the Prince of Wales sent him venison, and an actress, Mrs. Kendal, was solicitously tender. At the point in the play where she reaches out to take Merrick's hideously gnarled right hand in hers, the emotionally charged impact equals the scene in The Miracle Worker where Helen Keller first comprehends the sign for water. Longing to sleep "like other people," Merrick, who could only achieve rest by lowering his huge head on his knees, lay down one night in 1890, broke...