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...never before taken part in such a referendum. But when the 1,955 delegates converged last week on Warsaw's Palace of Culture and Science, a towering marble-and-granite edifice given to the Polish people by Joseph Stalin in the 1950s, they seemed determined to make the Ninth Congress of the Polish Communist Party a historic turning point for the whole nation...
...Fourth of July weekend, teams of executives from Conoco Inc. and Du Pont and Co. had forsaken friends and family to work almost round the clock on the biggest merger in U.S. corporate history. Du Pont, the largest U.S. producer of chemicals, had secretly offered to buy Conoco, the ninth biggest American oil company. After five hectic days of staff work, the deal seemed set. On Sunday night of the July Fourth weekend, Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson flew from his headquarters in Wilmington, Del., aboard a King Air twin-engine turboprop to Stamford, Conn., for a midnight meeting with...
Last week it was suddenly the other way around. The nation's ninth largest oil company, Conoco Inc. of Stamford, Conn. (1980 sales: $18.8 billion), became the reluctant target, rather than the proud suitor, in a corporate takeover raid. The predator was none other than Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, U.S. subsidiary of Canadian-based Seagram Co. Ltd., the world's largest liquor distiller, with 1980 global revenues of $2.5 billion...
...balance may be the ninth seaf and Wylie's reelection chances. The low man on the CCA totem pole in 1979. Wylie is cast as a likely fifth-finisher among state liberals this time around, although even if the CCA gains the seat, he may have to fight Abt and Preusser for its possession...
...this year? The top seed will be Jose Luis Clerc. You never heard of him? A relative unknown, despite his ninth-place world ranking. Clerc's obscurity symbolizes the problems haunting the only world-class tennis tournament that can be reached on the Green Line. Last year he beat one James Scott Connors, whom the tournament committee had paid in the neighborhood of $50,000 just to show up and help sell tickets. With Connors out of the lineup early, sales slumped and the tournament ended up just breaking even. Which, considering the huge amounts of money it had lost...