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...American Express Co. is to win its battle for McGraw-Hill Inc., the magazine, book and information-services giant, it will have to be by way of a revolt of Mc Graw-Hill shareholders against their own management. That was the upshot of fast-moving developments last week that abruptly switched the tide of battle in one of Wall Street's biggest takeover wars ever...
...gloomy wrangling it takes most married people years to discover. The problem is that Marcie is even richer than Oliver but shares none of his guilt over that enviable condition. Her pleasure in being one of the Bonwits of Bonwit Teller makes Oliver more and more sullen. The upshot is that he leaves her to join his own family's business, a New England mill whose workers, he thinks, need his liberal-minded ministrations. The picture ends with a voice-over announcing his intention to make his good works Jenny's monument...
WITH ONLY 53 days remaining on his sentence, Billy learns that the Turkish government, incensed over a diplomatic dispute with Washington, has singled him out as an "example" among foreign drug smugglers; the upshot is a new 30-year sentence, which provokes Billy to deliver an ugly tirade against the Turkish people and nation during his day in court. This marks a new phase, the hardening of Billy Hayes if you will. Billy joins Jimmy Booth in his latest escape plans, Billy goes berserk and mutilates the lifeless body of Rifki (a scene that ranks up there with the most...
...upshot of the 14-day workout period-- which can best be described as reminiscent of medieval torture tactics--is that Harvard may come up with an outstanding squad, possibly one to rival the IC4A champions team of two years past...
...upshot was a stern warning from the State Department. "Recent developments in Italy," said State, "have increased the level of our concern. Our position is clear: we do not favor [Communist participation in government] and would like to see Communist influence in any Western European country reduced. The U.S. and Italy share profound democratic values and interests, and we do not believe that the Communists share those values and interests." That kind of language, while several decibels below the threatening warnings of Henry Kissinger, nonetheless marked a new high point of concern by the Carter Administration on the subject...