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...speech stressed the theme that the Western allies are united by cultural and moral values that stand in sharp contrast to Soviet totalitarianism. The President struck both harsh and conciliatory notes. He summoned the allies to a "crusade for freedom" that would "leave Marxism-Leninism on the ash heap of history." He caused a stir in the hall when he invited Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev to speak on American television if Reagan could also address Soviet citizens on TV. At one point, he expounded on the "astounding" economic failures of the U.S.S.R., declaring that "a country which employs one-fifth...
...International is a victim of technological change. The 58-year-old firm was struggling as a manufacturer of old-fashioned duplicating machines in an age of Xerox copiers when Roy Ash, former head of Litton Industries and Budget Director in the Nixon Administration, took over in 1976 as chairman. Ash immediately began buying up companies that manufactured electronic office equipment and moved the company headquarters from Cleveland to Los Angeles. The new products, including word processors, copier devices and credit-card billing systems, soaked up millions of dollars in development costs, and AM International's profits fell sharply...
...Corp., a manufacturer of auto parts. When he was recruited by AM's board of directors, he took their word that the company was stable and had good growth prospects. Now he says he was the victim of an "industrial Watergate" that covered up sloppy business practices. Replies Ash: "He says I'm responsible for these losses and I'm saying just the contrary...
DIED. Virginia Bruce, 71, willowy, ash-blond actress of the '30s and '40s who played opposite such leading men as Robert Taylor, Fredric March and Melvyn Douglas; of cancer; in Woodland Hills, Calif. Often cast as a glamorous schemer, Bruce scored an early triumph in 1932 as an adulterous maid who shared her favors with villainous Chauffeur John Gilbert in Downstairs (she married him the same year). A veteran of 55 films, Bruce is best remembered for her portrayal of a chorus girl in The Great Ziegfeld...
...literally was a breath of fresh air. Since 1970, it has cut the amount of sulfur dioxide in the atmosphere by 44% and carbon monoxide by 30%. Soot and ash from factories have been reduced by 16%. And the perpetual veils of industrial haze that used to hang over steelmaking cities like Pittsburgh, Gary, Ind., and Birmingham have been lifted...