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Pinch runner Tom Grieve stole second base and scored the winning run as Jeff Burroughs singled home his fourth run of the game with two out in the ninth inning to give the Texas Rangers a 7-6 American League victory over the Boston Red Sox last night.
Author De Lillo would probably not be disappointed if Bucky Wunderlick is read as Jesus Christ Superstar in the urban wilderness. Bucky is last seen recovering from a language-erasing drug. It is suggested that he has been purified. But by nudging his hero toward the truly mythic, De Lillo...
Heinz Nixdorf, 47, has built Germany's most successful computer manufacturing company. The firm, Nixdorf-Computer, of which he is founder, sole owner and chief executive, has been competing head to head with IBM, Machines Bull (now Honeywell), Philips, Burroughs and Univac. Nixdorfs firm is the only European-based...
Reed's targets have been around at bargain prices for some time, but his laughs are not cheap. The outrageousness of his comic vision and the sinister coils of his prose beg comparison with William Burroughs. Survivors of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance may also be reminded of the orneriness...
Macdonald, 59, is different, having climbed through marketing. He joined the company in 1935 as a salesman and later ran its international sales division. To build a savvy computer marketing force, he recruited technicians from one of the company's largest customers, the U.S. military. Today, Burroughs has 21...