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...Newstour in 1978 covered 8,000 miles in the Middle East and Africa; three years later the destinations were Eastern Europe and the Middle East; in 1983, Mexico and Panama. TIME has also reversed the process: in May 1981 the magazine arranged for 22 leading European and South African businessmen to meet U.S. policymakers in Washington. Last week, in a similar exercise, TIME invited the chief executives of some of Canada's largest corporations and financial institutions to the U.S. capital for three days of discussions with such officials as Secretary of State George Shultz, Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger...
What follow is 100 pages, 99 too many, describing the seamier side of Lauren's double life. Her work after hours takes her into the nighttime dens of London's healthy Arabs and the hotel rooms of travelling businessmen, some of whom are merely looking for companionship others for an erotic toy. Theroux details her daily outline, a seven mile run around Hyde Park in the morning, seminars and papers at the institute, and Karim or Salim at night, while the reader can't help but wonder when this girl is going to get some sleep...
...Cape Cod Summer Job Bureau reports that there are thousands of summer jobs available on the Cape, Nantucket and Martha's Vineyard for college students. For the first time in years, businessmen say, there are seriously more jobs available than there are people to fill them. The job bureau charges no fee. If you're interested in finding out more, please send a long, self-addressed, stamped envelope to the bureau...
...little guy who takes on the Goliaths of Big Oil and more often than not gives them a costly whupping. Whichever image he evokes, T. (for Thomas) Boone Pickens, 56, has swept up like a twister out of Amarillo, Texas, to become one of the most famous and controversial businessmen in the U.S. today...
Currently, Corporation members form a homogeneous group. The Treasurer and five Fellows are all white, male, in their 50s and 60s, and extremely successful in their respective fields. Five of the six graduated from the College. They number among them one lawyer, three businessmen, a banker and a scholar, which indicates the basic range of the Corporation's responsibilities...