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...Carl Sagan...
With terrestrials like Carl Sagan, who needs extras? Five years ago, he brought the cosmos into your living room and became an instant star in the electronic firmament. The astronomer at Cornell now takes aim at the fiction best-seller charts. Contact, his first novel, dramatizes a pet theme: the possibility of unearthly life in the universe. Despite dialogue like "Holy Toledo. That's hundreds of janskys," the book is an engaging pastiche of science and speculation...
...everyone was satisfied with IBM's new system. Large business users complained last week that IBM has yet to offer a way to connect desktop personal computers with the bigger units used by insurance companies, banks and other service-industry giants. Said Carl Williams, manager of information systems at the Doyle Dane Bernbach advertising agency: "It's the mainframes that do the grunt work that runs the company. By leaving them out, IBM fails to address our requirements." Big Blue promises to deliver that kind of system, but declines to say exactly when...
...five unions. Frontier's employees, though, were anxious to avoid dealing with Lorenzo, whom they consider anti-union. In 1981, he bought Continental Airlines and two years later declared bankruptcy in order to get out of costly union contracts. In August, TWA's unions joined forces with Corporate Raider Carl Icahn to block Lorenzo's attempt to take over that airline. Says Lorraine Loflin, president of Frontier's flight attendants union: "We had directives from the membership that Lorenzo was not acceptable." The unions, which had given $32 million in wage concessions while trying to take over Frontier, said they...
...Green struck first, however, when quarterback Thomas Shakeshift hit receiver Craig Morton with a 60-yard touchdown pass in the opening quarter. Dartmouth kicker Carl Romero hit the extra point to make the score...