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...Richler's amusement park, the contributors often find themselves in a hall of mirrors. Southerner Roy Blount Jr. indignantly recalls that "one afternoon this African got up in my favorite class, Difficult Fiction, and denounced William Faulkner for his treatment of 'non-Western people.' " Peter De Vries weighs in with a brilliant Yoknapatawpha parody, then Kenneth Tynan lampoons Faulkner in his spoonbread rendition of Our Town: "Well, folks, reckon that's about it. End of another day in the city of Jefferson, Mississippi ... Couple of people got raped, couple more got their teeth kicked...
When Evan O. Grossman 87 and Roy G. Niederhoffer '87 began their computer company as high school sophomores, they discovered that not everything was ready to accept two teenagers is business partners...
...just a little more money, we could get a lot more catalogues, so we ordered 7500. Roy still has a thousand lining his garage," Grossman says...
Kinnock replaced Michael Foot, 70, who had tendered his resignation after presiding over Labor's worst defeat in 65 years, when Britons in June re-elected the Conservative government of Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. Kinnock's bandwagon rolled over three party heavyweights: the center-right's Roy Hattersley, 50, Leftist Veteran Eric Heffer, 61, and Peter Shore, 59, a moderate spokesman on economic affairs. The battle for the deputy leader's post proved much sharper. With Kinnock's tacit support, Hattersley defeated Leftist Michael Meacher, 43, thereby establishing what party faithful called "the dream ticket...
Industry watchers generally approved the move. Said Kidder, Peabody Analyst Roy Burry: "Combined with its already substantial wine interests, the buy will give Seagram's the critical mass of volume needed to market and distribute wines effectively." Paying off Coca-Cola will not be difficult. Seagram's plans to pay the $200 million purchase price in part with $120 million in annual dividends from its 50.3 million shares of Du Pont stock; the distiller acquired most of its 21% stake in Du Pont, now worth $2.6 billion, as a result of the 1981 battle to take over Conoco...