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When it comes to flying high, few businessmen can measure up to Frans Swarttouw, 49, of The Netherlands. Having built Rotterdam's containership terminal into a key operation of the world's biggest and busiest deepwater port, Swarttouw took command three years ago of Holland's weak and floundering Fokker aircraft company and promptly set about developing a strategy to propel it into the front ranks of the world's airframe manufacturers...
Hampton Roads, Va., is the nation's busiest coal port and also its most notorious bottleneck. On an average day before the start of the current coal miners' strike, an armada of 150 ships was anchored offshore. Reason: the two loading terminals are so inadequate that the colliers usually must wait in line a month or more to pick up their cargoes...
...Underwood-Rich, the head research librarian, earned her master's degree in library studies at the University of Hawaii before coming to TIME in 1970 as a book cataloguer. She and her staff are busiest when newsmakers are. Last October the Iran-Iraq war, the labor crisis in Poland and the approaching U.S. presidential election helped swell the number of queries for the month to 7,508. "I think that was an alltime record," says Underwood-Rich. "But I haven't had a chance to check...
...Despos, 39, the son of a Greek immigrant tailor, is the embodiment of the American success story. He learned to cut and sew at his father's knee, and five years ago he opened his own tailoring shop on one of the busiest crosstown streets in Fort Wayne, Ind. He quickly discovered that there was a bonanza in alterations. Says he: "People had lapels on old suits altered for $35 each instead of paying thousands for a new wardrobe." The first year his shop was open, Despos did $95,000 worth of business. Today he employs his father...
...Exchange. Prices plunged as brokers carried out orders from their clients to sell out their accounts. By midday the Dow Jones industrial average had fallen 31 points, although it recovered slightly in the afternoon to close down 23.80 points on a volume of 92.9 million shares. It was the busiest session in the 188-year history of the exchange. The following day, the Dow Jones index sank another 15.19 points...