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...American Heart Association has stated that it finds even the 1983 Metropolitan Life table too lenient. Obesity researchers at the National Institutes of Health say that weights 20% higher than the Metropolitan midpoints are hazardous. Says Dr. Robert F. Kushner, assistant professor of medicine at the University of Chicago: "We don't have anything to gain health-wise by allowing elderly patients to put on another 20 to 30 Ibs., because it's likely it will be fat tissue...
...murderer sentenced to 143 years to life after the 1980 killing of Washington Cardiologist Michael Halberstam; by police in Greensburg, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh, who followed up a routine parking violation and ended a manhunt that began May 14, when Welch and a fellow inmate escaped from a Chicago jail while he was supposedly helping federal agents prevent a breakout planned by others. Found in a stolen car and in an apartment occupied by Welch were seven pistols, seven rifles and $500,000 worth of antiques, indicating that Welch had reverted to his former livelihood; indeed, 65 Welch-style...
...World), the event is proposed as a 4,000-mile handholding chain running through 17 states and four time zones. On Sunday, May 25 (Memorial Day weekend), volunteers would link up at 3 p.m. EST in a line starting in Manhattan, crossing to Elizabeth, N.J., and winding through Washington, Chicago and St. Louis. The handholders will bypass the Rockies by swinging south through Fort Worth to Phoenix, then on to Los Angeles, where the last person in the chain will dip a toe in the Pacific...
Indeed, merchandising firms are much in vogue with acquisition-minded managers. One day after the Macy's announcement, officers of Household International agreed to pay $700 million for the Chicago-based conglomerate's retailing units, which include Coast-to-Coast hardware and the Ben Franklin variety chain. Even small Wieboldt Stores, a 102-year-old Chicago concern, last week announced a $37.4 million deal that turned the firm into a private company...
...Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management. In one snarled battle, investors, led by the former chairman of a Beatrice acquisition, offered nearly $5 billion for Beatrice, which last month rejected the bid. Now Beatrice (fiscal 1985 sales: $12.6 billion) may be turning to outsiders for help. Said one Chicago lawyer: "Their investment bankers are burning up the phone lines looking for a white knight...