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...then change its mind?" Ironically, Gulf was originally cast as the hero in the Cities Service drama. In June Cities Service was trying to escape an unwanted takeover bid by Mesa Petroleum, a relatively small Amarillo, Texas, oil firm. Unwilling to be controlled by a company less than one-twentieth its size, Cities welcomed Gulfs merger bid of $5 billion, which Mesa could not match...
...Timing the "leak" perfectly with the birth of Prince William, future King of England. CBS let slip that it will air a feature film later this year entitled Charles and Diana: A Royal Romance. Shooting has begun on what will surely be a landmark in modern movie-making. The twentieth century fairy-tale come true, captured for all America in prime time, maybe on cable someday. And who will star as Diana, the shy kindergarten teacher-turned-princess and proud mother? None other than Catherine Oxenburg...
Gulf's immediate concern last week, though, was tactical. The company wanted to head off aggressive Mesa Petroleum, a company that is little more than one-twentieth Cities Service's size, with 1981 revenues of only $407 million. Therefore, Gulf decided to come in with a $63 per share bid, which was nearly 70% over Cities Service's market price of about $37 per share. It was hoped that such an offer would immediately stop all competition...
...remember walking in my backyard when I was three and thinking about God. Looking at the green grass and the moss on a stone--that's all I can remember, but somehow it was very proto-spiritual." Twentieth-century Harvard produces few Calvinist theologians, but this morning it will graduate one Charles Dana Klingensmith...
Thomas Professor of English and American Literature Daniel Aaron, a lecturer in English 70. "American Literature from the Beginning through the Early Twentieth Century"--a course known for its insurmountable reading list and its professors who casually mention an extra half-dozen books on a related subject--rattled off these books for summer...