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...international oil companies, facing the certainty of takeovers of their overseas wells by many foreign governments, have been seeking to hedge their bets. Gulf Oil, for example, in the last year has tried unsuccessfully to buy the CNA insurance business and even the Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circus. Last week Mobil Oil went it one better by announcing plans to make a tender offer for 51% of the stock of Marcor Inc., the parent company of the Montgomery Ward retail chain and Container Corp., a packaging giant...
QUIN'S SHANGHAI CIRCUS by EDWARD WHITTEMORE 291 pages. Holt, Rinehart& Winston...
...What's yellow and smooth and dangerous?" yips the clever infant, zapping his father with another riddle. "Quin's Shanghai Circus," answers the weary book reviewer. "Stop being silly," the child admonishes. "What's yellow and smooth and dangerous?" "Ah, dangerous," says his distracted parent, "I thought you said meaningless...
...head fully jig-sawed. There is old Geraty, a buffalo-like giant addicted to Japanese horseradish, who once ran a Chinese pornographic movie parlor. There is the former Baron Kikuchi, a Japanese who converted to Judaism and became a rabbi. Quin appears as a shadowy cuckold who ran a circus in Shanghai at the war's outset and orchestrated the murder of its entire company during a performance. Maeve Quin, his glad-glanded wife, is an aerialist who made her final somersault into the lights with no hands to catch...
Streak Hitting. Though once a sloppy defenseman, Rightfielder Jackson now makes a habit of circus catches and bullet throws to the infield and home. Last October Jackson tormented the New York Mets in the World Series as he led the A's in hitting and spectacular outfield defense. For his efforts, he was named Most Valuable Player of the league and the series. The awards merely underscored what everyone in baseball already knew-Reginald Martinez Jackson is the best player on the best team in the sport...