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Mere maintenance of the existing security system would be insufficient--it must be improved. With the above measures, we would not have to provide so much security for ourselves, as the administration would like us to. Apparently the administration fancies Winston Churchill's precept, "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty." But with vigilance comes fear, a sentiment with which Harvard students should not have to contend. Our security is worth far more than the administration seems to value...
...afford to be generous in victory. Though he may have to spin off some $6 billion worth of RJR food brands to reduce the leveraged company's swollen debt, he talked of shifting RJR headquarters from Atlanta, where Johnson moved it last year, back to its traditional home in Winston-Salem, N.C. Kravis said he will install retired RJR chairman J. Paul Sticht, 71, in the top job again for several months to smooth the transition...
Even as Johnson backed away from his huge initial stake, rival bidders rushed in to get theirs. The competing offers turned the fight for RJR Nabisco, whose brands range from Animals Crackers to Winston cigarettes, into the brassiest and potentially most damaging brawl in Wall Street history. By last week three groups were locked in a titanic struggle for the company (1987 revenues: $15.8 billion), and the offering price has climbed above $26 billion -- more than the gross national product of Peru or Portugal and twice the sum that Chevron paid for Gulf Oil in 1984 in the largest previous...
...bars, when it merged with Nabisco in 1981. Four years later, as Nabisco's president, Johnson sold out to RJR Reynolds for $4.9 billion and soon became president of the merged company. After adding the title of chief executive officer in 1987, he swiftly moved RJR Nabisco headquarters from Winston-Salem to Atlanta, sold the Heublein liquor business and slashed the corporate staff from 1,000 to 400. The dapper Johnson, a friend of such sports figures as hockey star Bobby Orr and broadcaster Frank Gifford, is described as a "charmer" by one associate. Another warned that when the boss...
...silent movie screenwriter who was almost as famous as the actors for whom she wrote. She went on to become a prolific playwright and novelist whose sharp, witty work sustained a career that spanned seven decades. Her friends included Aldous Huxley and Cecil Beaton and she numbered William Faulkner, Winston Churchill and James Joyce among her admirers. In Gary Carey's biography, however, what emerges is a portrait of struggle and frustration...