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Ebenezer Scrooge would have liked the executives at the Okonite Cable Co., an electric-cable manufacturer in North Brunswick, N.J. According to plant workers, a senior manager was leading a group of newly hired salesmen on a shop-floor tour when someone took umbrage at the sight of laborers wearing Santa Claus caps. Though the festive headgear had become something of an annual tradition at the plant, management ordered three offending workers to get rid of their caps. When they refused, they were promptly suspended for three days without...
Asked to assess his past, du Pont is helpless. There are no traumatic childhood memories, few personal crises in his charmed adult life. When pressed for a formative experience, du Pont harks back to his three years in the late 1950s as a Navy maintenance officer at the Brunswick Naval Air Station in Maine. His duties included keeping the runways free of snow, and he obligingly strains to find some germ of leadership in those days...
...began listing birds in 1918, still hunts with the pack and is ranked fifth on the North American list. If someone wants to start a Birdwatchers Anonymous, says Marsh, he is ready to join. "I experience recurring intervals of lucidity," he says. "When a chaffinch turned up in New Brunswick, I stayed right here and I felt fine. Maybe there's hope...
...South Brunswick, N.J., the school system held a software fair and a pair of summer sessions exclusively for girls. "This is more insidious than a simple education problem," says Peggy Sealfon, director of the computer- equity project. "If girls shy away from computers, it could undermine their career opportunities...
...Flames will keep two net-minders and send two to each of their minor league clubs. Both Blair and Dadswell are certainly hoping for a chance to play in Moncton, New Brunswick in the American Hockey League--and hoping to avoid a trip to Salt Lake City of the lowly International Hockey League...