51.   A proposed merger between Hafslund Nycomed AS and the Ivax Co. failed when Hafslund shareholders threw it out.

52.   A recent column on points to ponder prompted reader Trey Henderson to send along these examples of proposed corporate mergers made in heaven.

53.   A privately proposed merger between Telefonica and British Telecommunications also was thwarted.

54.   A year ago, antitrust concerns dissolved the proposed merger of United and U S Airways.

55.   According to some executives involved in the negotiations, U S West has reacted coolly to the proposed merger.

56.   Additionally, French management must discuss proposed mergers with the workers.

57.   After launching an extended probe of a proposed merger or joint venture, the commission outlines its complaints in a statement of objections sent to the companies.

58.   Agency officials said that the proposed merger presented some of the thorniest antitrust questions they had wrestled with in the last four years.

59.   Airbus has since changed its tune, saying the proposed merger could be problematic over the longer term.

60.   All of the companies involved in the proposed merger are trying to satisfy F.T.C. objections to the growing power of Tele-Communications and its chairman, John Malone.