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...Angeles for Washington on March 1, treks across the flatlands pursued by television cameras, supply trucks and spectators. At the same time, another awesome spectacle is taking shape: from one coast to the other, people are lining up side by side and clasping hands to form a huge human chain against hunger...
...bigger of the two extravaganzas will require the cooperation of 6 million to 10 million people. Dubbed "Hands Across America" by its organizers (the same USA for Africa group that produced We Are the World), the event is proposed as a 4,000-mile handholding chain running through 17 states and four time zones. On Sunday, May 25 (Memorial Day weekend), volunteers would link up at 3 p.m. EST in a line starting in Manhattan, crossing to Elizabeth, N.J., and winding through Washington, Chicago and St. Louis. The handholders will bypass the Rockies by swinging south through Fort Worth...
...Management skills are taught so rigorously that a group of visiting professors from the Harvard Business School, after sitting in on classes last year, pronounced their own institution to be "the West Point of capitalism." Cadets learn leadership firsthand by giving orders to those they outrank in the cadet chain of command--their classmates as well as plebes. "It isn't easy ordering your roommate to shine his shoes," shrugs one cadet sergeant. "But you have...
...more than an hour, China's leader offered his thoughts on economic reform in his country and how it can be sustained, the new problem of corruption, Chinese relations with the Soviet Union and next month's Reagan-Gorbachev summit meeting in Geneva. As is his custom, Deng chain-smoked throughout the meeting. Speaking in his deep, heavily Sichuan-accented voice, he was by turns tough, charming and self-effacing. Excerpts from the session...
Indeed, merchandising firms are much in vogue with acquisition-minded managers. One day after the Macy's announcement, officers of Household International agreed to pay $700 million for the Chicago-based conglomerate's retailing units, which include Coast-to-Coast hardware and the Ben Franklin variety chain. Even small Wieboldt Stores, a 102-year-old Chicago concern, last week announced a $37.4 million deal that turned the firm into a private company...