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...agreed to buy a controlling interest in American Motors Corp., the longtime also-ran of the U.S. auto industry, from the firm's major shareholder, France's Renault. Code-named Project Titan at Chrysler headquarters, the deal is the most daring move that Iacocca has made as the architect of Chrysler's dramatic comeback from near bankruptcy...
...many names -- Prince of Darkness, Darth Vader, evil genius -- and the witty Perle loves them all. By title, Richard (as he is invariably referred to in Washington) is merely one of eleven Assistant Secretaries, a third-echelon Pentagon aide. In practice, Perle is widely acknowledged to be a major architect of U.S. arms-control policy, though to his opponents he is a bureaucratic Machiavelli who deviously torpedoed all reasonable prospects for agreement...
...central issue was whether Abdallah was only a "little boss" who had "let himself be captured," as a French intelligence official claimed, or an architect of international terrorism, as the Americans maintained. Both sides agreed with the French police source who said of Abdallah, "He was good -- no paper trail, no proof. In short, a professional." After hearing the evidence, the judges apparently concluded he was too good, in fact, to be let off lightly...
With two live chickens and 200 eggs, $20,000 and no prospects, the Couvreux family from Bordeaux crossed the Atlantic in a 40-ft. ketch. There was Michel (the father, the Frenchman, the architect) and Janis (the mother, the Californian, the first mate), and their little boy Sean and his baby brother Brendan, as newborn at the time as his father's dream -- everyman's dream -- to sail away...
Cudmore first started as an architect, having earned a Masters Degree from the Harvard Graduate School of Design. He won a Progressive Architecture Design Award in 1969 for his work on Cornell University's campus store and later worked on the New England Aquarium in Boston...