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Defecting from law doesn't necessarily mean a depleted bank account. Howard Tullman, 44, left the Chicago firm Levy & Ehrens in 1981 because his busy travel schedule kept him constantly away from his family. The company he then founded, CCC Information Services, which provides data to the insurance industry, today has 1,000 employees and $105 million in revenues. "You can't become wealthy selling your time," says Tullman, now a multimillionaire. "There just aren't enough hours...
Wattleton can be imperious. She travels first-class while her aides ride coach. Recently in Chicago, she retired to a hotel suite for a solitary lunch. As she bit into her sandwich, she asked an aide to get her a Coke. The young woman returned with a can of Pepsi. "Is this all right?" she asked. "No," Wattleton replied. "I said Coke, not Pepsi. There is a difference...
...articulate, Wattleton is often hard to read. But not to Trish Arredondo, the director of an Indiana Planned Parenthood affiliate. One day, after a speech at a fund raiser in Munster, Ind., Wattleton stretched out her legs in the back of a white limousine cruising along Route 20 toward Chicago. Arredondo reached for Wattleton's note pad and stared at it intently. Arredondo is a family-planning specialist by training, a graphologist by avocation. Without taking her eyes off Wattleton's handwriting, she began to speak. You're idealistic and self-controlled, she told Wattleton. You're a bit possessive...
...more vulnerable to an economic slump. While the merger- / and-acquisition game will no doubt carry on in the 1990s, such deals are apt to be less grandiose and more carefully wrought than the quick-buck transactions that are currently coming to grief. Says J. Ira Harris, a Chicago-based senior partner of Lazard Freres: "These are only midterm grades. The real grades arrive when you have an old-fashioned recession and see who survives." When that report card is in, more raiders are likely to flunk the game they touted so highly: survival of the fittest...
...vernacular architecture" of the postwar era comes from baby boomers nostalgically intent on preserving the roadside attractions of their youth. Groups in six states are seriously studying some of the teepee-shape motels and iceberg-shape gas stations that still dot U.S. Route 66, once the main route from Chicago to Los Angeles. "These places are a part of our history," says Richard Gutman, author of American Diner. "They are being swept away at a pace that is astonishing...