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Diebold has earned a fortune promoting corporate change. Having coined the word automation while he was writing his M.B.A. thesis at Harvard, he set up a consulting firm when still in his 20s. He advised businesses how to deal with computers, opened offices of the Diebold Group around the world, wrote four books and was decorated with numerous honorary degrees and princely medals. Now, still boyish looking and wide eyed at 52, he has signed up 22 blue chips that pay his company fat fees to learn how to cope with change in society...
...women used new carbon-fiber oars for the first time Saturday, and Ronan said the lighter oars may have caused some of the difficulties in the early part of the race since the women were not used to them. But strong power 20s after the first 500 and first 1000 kept the women on track, en route...
...Bass, the formidable autocrat who runs the firm, could have been another Kingsfield, the Paper Chase professor. Unfortunately, Weston never gets to do much more than eat lunch with the old boy and listen to him bombinate about what it was like to be an associate in the '20s (stiff collars, no air conditioning...
...months of the demonstrations that brought down the Shah and then Prime Minister Shahpour Bakhtiar, Is lam performed that unifying function. Several different revolutions coalesced then; now they are subdividing again. The century's earlier revolutionary his tory may explain the components. The revolutions of the '20s and '30s were ei ther rebellions of redemptionists (some times fascists, as in Germany and Italy) intent on rescuing old native virtues from alien influences, or of Communists, or of nationalists (in Ireland, for example). Elements of all three have been at work in Iran. But now the contradictions...
...curious thing was that he had so little natural talent as an artist; no fluency, little relish. Magritte's paintings from the early '20s are painfully bad, academic cubism-as awkward, in their way, as the cubist paintings of another great ideas man of our time, Marcel Duchamp. Magritte had a poor sense of color, and his drawing was mere tracing; the paint surface is as dead as an old fingernail...