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...Canada have engaged in considerable bargaining about the project. More unusual, a relatively small and unknown company beat out the giants of the North American gas industry to win the contract to build and operate the pipeline. The construction cost alone could reach $14 billion. The victor is Northwest Energy Co., a firm based in Salt Lake City, which had sales last year of $626 million, mostly from a pipeline system supplying seven states. Its peppery chairman, John McMillian, a Texas independent oilman, masterminded the struggle. For his bested competitors, including the Canadian subsidiaries of Gulf, Exxon and Shell, McMillian...
...flurry of post-Watergate books, Victor Lasky's It Didn't Start With Watergate has a unique record. Released last April, it justifiably drew blistering reviews, yet climbed to the bestseller lists and stayed there. (Dial Press has 115,000 copies in print and plans to publish 10,000 more.) The reason seems to be that Lasky tells readers something that quite a few of them want to hear: that abuse of presidential power did not start with Richard Nixon. No responsible authority, of course, ever claimed that it did. But, not content to refute a charge that...
...years ago, the Chilean army attacked with brutal force the hundreds of Chilean workers who fought to defend Allende's government. Hundreds of students who resisted the coup were rounded up and placed in Santiago's National Stadium, where more than 200 were shot as the other watched, helpless. Victor Jara, a young Chilean folksinger, sang to the people in the stadium as the junta's soldiers tortured and finally killed...
...than a year ago, but in the first six months of this year it found 20 cases in which a company proposed to pay $100 million or more for control of another firm, as compared with twelve bids of that size in the same 1976 period. Victor Niederhoffer, a New York corporate matchmaker, estimates that $17.2 billion worth of merger deals will be consummated this year, v. $12.6 billion last year and $5.1 billion...
...keep count, is the second deadly sin. Pride is the first, and lust is No. 3, though not necessarily in order of popularity. In Lawrence Sanders' new novel, these and most of the other numbered transgressions come into play as someone murders Painter Victor Maitland at his studio in Lower Manhattan...