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Pickens was content to wait for Gulfs annual shareholders' meeting in May to push the trust plan, but Lee decided to beat the Texan to the draw. The Gulf chairman devised a strategy to reincorporate the Pittsburgh-based company in Delaware, instead of Pennsylvania. Under Delaware law, Pickens would have to muster a majority of stockholder votes to gain a seat on the Gulf board or to force any structural changes in the company. Pennsylvania rules would allow the Pickens group, with its 12%-plus voting bloc, to grab a spot on the 13-member Gulf board...
Besides concerts, the organ will be used for teaching, recording, accompaniment for ensembles, student recitals and visiting musicians who wish to play. --The Daily Texan...
EXPECTING. Jerry Hall, 27, towering Texan supermodel, and Mick Jagger, 40, strutting, mugging lead singer of the world's most enduring rock-'n'-roll band, the Rolling Stones; their first child; in February. Jagger, who has two daughters, Karis, 12, by American Singer Marsha Hunt, and Jade, 11, by his ex-wife Bianca Jagger, does not intend to marry Hall. Said the legendary "street-fightin' man" last week: "I think stability, comfort and marriage are very well for other people. But in this business I don't think you can have that and still...
...faces are different, though not very: the macho Texan on CBS, the winsome South Dakotan on NBC and the urbane Canadian on ABC are all white, lean and youthfully middleaged; all part their dark, wavy hair on the left. They do vary somewhat in manner: Dan Rather of CBS is intense, Tom Brokaw of NBC is quick to laugh or lament, and Peter Jennings of ABC is elegantly detached. The newscasts that they anchored last week, in heavily promoted head-to-head competition, were almost exactly alike, not only in content but in specific imagery...
Kirkpatrick, who is the President's representative on the commission, is expected to be one of its driving forces. In a speech last week, she stressed that Communist regimes "can be overturned" and the spread of Marxism should not be considered irreversible. Robert Strauss, the blunt Texan who is a former chairman of the Democratic National Committee, is likely to be the most prominent voice from outside the Administration among the appointed members. When phoned on Sunday night and offered the position, Strauss, who served as President Carter's special envoy to the Middle East, turned...