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Peter Follows, the extra Crimson attracker, deflected the puck in past Red Raider goalie Jeff Cooper, giving the Crimson new life with most 55 seconds left in regulation...
...Crimson threw more firepower at Cornell than the Big Red defense had dealt with in any of its previous games. Crimson strikers Lane Kenworthy and John Catliff and wing raider Nick Hotchkin combined with midfield maestro Paul Nicholas to create more shots in the first half than the Cornell defenders were used...
...stock to pose either a takeover challenge or the threat of a proxy fight. Worried because they may lose their jobs, the top men too often capitulate and offer to buy back the greenmailer's stock at a premium price in exchange for a promise that the raider will not go after them again, at least in the near future. In cases just this year, Texaco bought back 9.8% of its shares for $1.28 billion from the Bass family, Warner Communications paid Rupert Murdoch $180.6 million for his 7% interest in the firm, St. Regis purchased for $160 million...
...York Financier Saul Steinberg, 44, has compiled a fear some record as a corporate raider. So when he acquired 12.2% of Walt Disney Productions, the movie and amusement-park company appeared to be in danger. But Wall Streeters are now saying that Steinberg's battle plan looks like so much huffing and puffing. Though he has said he may buy nearly 50% of Disney stock, Steinberg's search for other investors to go in with him has so far been fruitless. Also, his fight to unseat Disney's board of directors looks doomed...
...sooner had Standard Oil of California agreed to buy Gulf Oil than Wall Streeters began speculating on who would win, and who would lose, in the $13.2 billion deal. At the top of everyone's winners list was Corporate Raider T. Boone Pickens Jr. and his partners. Together with Pickens' Texas-based Mesa Petroleum, they acquired 13.2% of Gulf stock at an average price of $45 a share, and now stand to reap $760 million from Socal's takeover for $80 a share. Mesa alone will rake in $506 million...