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...itinerary: from ramp agent for nonscheduled airlines to office worker to office manager to 22-year-old vice president to failure out on his own to spectacular success, heading First Travel Corp., second only to American Express among U.S. travel giants. Ueberroth's method, besides having been bred for problem solving, might be described as a kind of enlightened stinginess. At the same time that he was lowering overhead by dumping high-salaried executives at the troubled travel bureaus he acquired in bunches, Ueberroth was offering stock incentives to the real workers and rewarding talent without prejudice. He turned over...
...they men like Billy (Matthew Modine), a fresh-faced lad with a college education? Or Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein), an upper-class homosexual with a taste for taunt? Or Roger (David Alan Grier), a sweet-natured black who deflects each insult with a shrug? Or Carlyle (Michael Wright), the slum-bred black spoiling for a quick apocalypse? Doesn't matter. When the crisis comes, they will be as surprised as the paratrooper whose chute just wouldn't open...
...death surprised those who knew him. Jackson was fit and industrious, and never smoked. He had no history of heart trouble, and lived prudently. The habit of prudence was bred by his parents, Norwegian immigrants. Nicknamed Scoop after a comic-strip character who appeared in the Everett Herald (which he delivered for years), Jackson practiced frankness young: in the third grade, asked what he wanted to be when he grew up, he admitted he wanted Warren G.Harding...
...having followed an ECAC title with a strong recruiting year. He saw first-hand just how much his prized recruit could do for a team last spring when an all star team of Massachusetts skaters took on the best schoolboys from Minnesota, long regarded as the one region that bred better players. The Bay Staters pummelled their visitors by scores of 14-3, 6-2 and 8-0. Bourbeau led all scorers with 10 points...
...number of Parker-bred rowers competed earlier this month in the world championships in West Germany. Andy Sudduth '84 rowed in the four-without-coxswain that finished a disappointing seventh...