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...reversed his decision weeks later, after Fogg supporters and Fine Arts professors expressed outrage and raised new funds, but the initial cancellation and the climate of uncertainty it bred complicated the committee's task...
...golden years. The store sported 14 floors and more than 500,000 separate items; it operated four restaurants which served up to 13,000 meals a day. Nothing anywhere else could compare. Perhaps more importantly. Hudson's offered a brand of courtesy and service which bonded shoppers and bred loyalty. Up to its final day of business on January 7, employees operated the store's elevators and delivery men drove dark green tracks along familiar routes. People came not only to stop, but also to make travel arrangements and rub shoulders with an eclectic crown of shoppers. Hudson's reportedly...
Jobs made his way through Homestead High, recalls Electronics Teacher John McCollum, "as something of a loner. He always had a different way of looking at things." Solitude may, however, have bred ambition. McCollum was stunned to learn that the young loner, needing parts for class projects, picked up the phone and called Burroughs collect in Detroit and Bill Hewlett, co-founder of Hewlett-Packard, over in Palo Alto...
...Alamajah Ratuprawiranegara acknowledged to TIME, "as long as it is only aimed at the animists." When Dillinger arrived 24 years ago, he remembers, "every aspect of the Dani world had spirits: the mountains, the gardens, the trees. The people lived in constant fear and dread." The oppressive atmosphere also bred wars between tribes. "That was the hardest part for me," says Lorraine, "watching them kill each other before we could teach them the Gospel...
Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the sole surviving U.S.-born and -bred motorcycle maker, is feeling wobbly. Last week H-D officials pleaded with the U.S. International Trade Commission hi Washington for import protection against Japanese-made bikes. Since 1978, argued H-D Chairman Vaughn Beals, Harley has lost more than a third of the so-called big-bike market (engines of more than 700 cc displacement), chiefly to Yamaha, Suzuki, Kawasaki and Honda...