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What do Consolidated Cigar and the Richmond Screw Anchor Co. have in common? Both were once owned by the quintessential conglomerate of the 1960s: Gulf & Western. The diverse mix of businesses proved so unmanageable by the early 1980s that G&W Chairman Martin Davis launched a campaign to spin off more than 100 subsidiaries. Last week the company once known as Engulf & Devour said it will sell one of its few remaining divisions, Associates First Capital Corp., a financial services company. Davis hopes to use the estimated $3 billion in proceeds to assemble a world-class media and entertainment giant...
Stratospheric salaries for TV-news anchors are nothing new, of course. But last week's round of anchor shifts marked a new phase in the TV talent sweepstakes. In the past, high-visibility newscasters were wooed mainly for anchor spots on the morning and evening news shows. Now they are being groomed as prime-time stars. Shows are even being constructed around them, the way Hollywood studios in the '30s used to create vehicles for their contract stars. Chung has been promised the anchor job on a soon to be reconstituted version of West 57th, CBS's low-rated magazine...
...Catamounts, ECAC Honorable Mention Ian Boyce (15-16--41) will anchor the Vermont offense, along with Jim Larkin (16-18--34) and Jim Walsh...
...Western Europe. Some of the taped footage is smuggled out of South Africa. "Journalists who work for us are willing to take incredible risks to get their stories out because they know we are willing to put them on the air," says Carolyn Craven, senior producer and co-anchor...
...special committee of the BSA has assembled acalendar of events for the month. The BlackHistory Committee has scheduled movies like theCivil Rights documentary Eyes on the Prize,invited speakers like WBZ-TV's anchor Liz Walkerand planned meals with Black faculty andadministrators