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Stephen Bollenbach, the high-flying CEO of Hilton Hotels Corp., is strictly a bird of his word. Bollenbach told TIME last summer that he was looking to make significant additions to Hilton's hotel holdings. Last week he found what he was looking for--more than 130,000 rooms. Those lodgings happen to do business under the banner of Sheraton, which happens to be owned by ITT Corp. and run by Rand Araskog, a man not keen on having his corporate masterwork painted over. That's why Hilton's $55-a-share, $6.5 billion offer for ITT, whose holdings also...
...actually done on a Macintosh, the kind of thing that almost anybody can do." All told, about a third of the first movie's special-effects shots were worked on, producing roughly 4 1/2 minutes of new footage--or at least "new" in the sense that Free as a Bird was a new Beatles song...
...Reported by Maryann Bird and Julie K.L. Dam/London
ALMOST 4 YEARS LADY BIRD JOHNSON...
When I was growing up, I had the chance to see some of this. Larry Bird and Magic Johnson revitalized the NBA, but I was too young to really understand what was going on. The same thing is true with Wayne Gretsky, Michael Jordan, Dan Marino, and Jerry Rice. They were not really of my generation, I didn't have the chance to watch it all develop with full comprehension...