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...Frank Lorenzo took over the control stick at Eastern Air Lines last week, some embittered employees of the carrier wanted to make sure that he felt turbulence on his mission to assemble the largest U.S. airline company. At Eastern's final shareholders meeting, 200 employees turned the session into a shouting match as they accused the carrier's managers of "giving away the company" to Lorenzo's corporation, Texas Air. Eastern workers, who own 20% of the airline's stock, pleaded with management to consider their rival buyout plan, insisting that they could pay $11.25 a share to top Texas...
...first day I went into the township, I saw policemen standing on an armored personnel carrier shooting into a crowd. I saw Black vigilantes tearing down squatter shacks," Waldorf says. "All this 20 kilometers from the beautiful white suburbs. It was like a Twilight Zone `Parallel Universe' episode...
Beginning its first possession on its own 17, Leverett marched down the field primarily by keeping the ball on the ground. Running back Woody Lennon, who has been Leverett's top ball-carrier this season, gained 66 yards on the drive, including a crucial one-yard burst to give his team a first down at the Currier...
...malignant growth. In fact, that happens infrequently. Explains M.I.T. Biologist Nancy Hopkins: "Cancer arises from a number of insults to the DNA. Viruses are one insult. They start the process rolling." Years usually elapse between infection and the development of a related cancer. When liver cancer strikes a hepatitis carrier, for example, it generally does so 30 to 50 years after the victim was first infected. These long delays, Zur Hausen observes, "suggest the need for other events besides infection to occur in order to progress to cancer...
...medical evidence available so far indicates, first, that the HTLV-III virus can only be transmitted by the exchange of body fluids between a carrier and another person--an event that seems no more likely to occur among military personnel than between them and the general population--and, second, that many people carry HTLV-III without developing AIDS. The Department of Defense has expressed concern that carriers may develop the disease if they receive immunizations that are standard for all military personnel. This concern is touching, though there is little clinical evidence to support it. Moreover, people dismissed from active...