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DIED. Leif Stenberg, 53, reputed (but never convicted) Swedish crime boss of the 1970s, who received Europe's first mechanical-heart transplant seven months ago; of respiratory and circulatory ailments; in Stockholm...
...change significantly until younger men who have spent their careers working alongside competent women begin to run major U.S. companies. Among the men in the Harvard Business Review survey, those age 40 or younger were more likely to say that they would feel comfortable working for a woman boss...
...firm USA Network: "The best way to get to the top for a woman is to start there." Says Sandra Kurtzig, founder and chairman of ASK Computer Systems in Los Altos, Calif. (estimated 1985 sales: $100 million): "My being a woman is just not an issue. I'm the boss. They'd better be comfortable with me--or else...
Every receptionist is familiar with the situation: an importunate visitor without an appointment insists on seeing the boss to air real or imagined grievances. Such was the case with the confused, middle-age woman who pestered the receptionist last week at the Manhattan head quarters of the Deak-Perera foreign exchange company before being ushered out of the office. It might have been just another wrinkle of life in the big city--except the woman soon returned with a gun. Before she was tackled and disarmed by a police officer, Lois E. Lang, 44, had shot to death Receptionist Frances...
...know Communism," Reagan told an aide before he sat down with Gorbachev. "I've followed it for 30 years." He would not, he vowed, make it a Mike and Ronnie show, nor a kissing, hugging acquaintance. Yet, when the Soviet boss showed up, Reagan, in directing him up the stairs, touched Gorbachev gently on the arm. A surprising number of people who saw that small gesture remembered it. That was body language for civility, not intimacy...