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...pitted against a Northeastern Cinderella team, is blowing the Huskies out of the building. The Garden is already emptying out, only the quarter of the first balcony where the Eagle fans are sitting is still filled. Len Ceglarski's skaters have already pumped seven pucks past a shell-shocked Northeastern sieve, three in the last five minutes. Now the Eagles are pressuring again; O'Neil breaks for the net, takes the perfect centering pass and knocks it home for the last goal of the '83 tourney. The 8-2 avalanche sends the 'Pot to Chestnut Hill...
Mergers do not inevitably mean unfriendly takeovers. Last week Royal Dutch/Shell Group (1983 nine-month revenues: $60.7 billion), the mammoth British and Dutch energy producer, sought to buy out minority owners of its Houston-based Shell Oil subsidiary. Royal Dutch offered $55 a share, or $5.2 billion, for the approximately 30% of the U.S. firm that it does not already own. Said Sir Peter Baxendell, Royal Dutch senior executive: "This will enable us to invest and operate within the U.S. and abroad without any obstructions that might result from the presence of minority shareholders...
...Wall Street, investors greeted last week's Texaco and Royal Dutch offers with delight. Shell Oil stock jumped 9½ points a share in one day, to 53½, on news of the Royal Dutch bid, while Getty climbed 3¼, to 120. The excitement quickly spread through other energy stocks, sparking a rally among the issues...
...shell. Take away the crowds from these Olympics, and there would be very little to hear but your own heart racing. Until the closing ceremonies, when the nations who first entered the stadium as if parading before the galaxy, block by formal block, break ranks, and the competitors, chanting raucously off-key, embrace one another in the most disorderly conduct. Pure mush, of course. Cliches down the line. So why are you smiling...
McRae claims the Pentagon financed psychic research to study the "shell game" basing mode for the MX missile, a system that would attempt to confuse Soviet military strategists by shifting missiles among a number of concrete shelters. Other esoteric programs uncovered by McRae include titles like "Novel Biological Information Transfer Systems," apparently the Pentagon's way of saying E.S.P...