While Circon would not comment on the lawsuit, a spokeswoman emphasized that the board was performing its fiduciary obligations.

I was thinking of CirCon, d'Averoigne's new circum-continuum radio.

"Of course to do this is simpler than picking up a broadcast from a transmitter that doesn't have CirCon, like the Tree," the count admitted.

United States Surgical contends in a lawsuit that seeks to prevent Circon from using a poison pill that Circon's board is doing just that.

Electricity is conducted by moisture in the hemorrhoid, said Richard Kilgus, Bicap's product manager at Circon ACMI in Stamford, Conn.

The chairman of Circon, Richard A. Auhll, wrote a letter to employees in August saying the company had "retained expert financial and legal advisers to help us prevail, no matter what U.S.S.C. does."

The Circon Corporation, a medical-technology company, for example, is snubbing an $18-a-share offer by the United States Surgical Corporation, even though the stock was below $10 before the offer and a majority of the shares have been tendered in support of the purchase.

I sent Dr. Cleaver an urgent message on the CirCon, to be tape-recorded on the ship that landed yesterday; I would have used the Tree, but of course that has been cut down, and I doubt that he would have accepted any such message from a Lithian had it not been.