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Chutzpah, one might say, but it comes naturally to McGowan. The son of a railroad union organizer in the coal country of eastern Pennsylvania, he worked his way through college, attended Harvard Business School on the G.I. Bill, then went to work for Mike Todd, the Broadway and Hollywood showman. McGowan subsequently launched several firms in electronics and computers, retired rich at 39 and took a trip around the world. Bored, he moved into the field of venture capital. That was how he discovered a nearly bankrupt little company that was trying to start microwave phone service between Chicago...
...Spee. Away Delphic, Phoenix, Fly, and A.D., Those severed ties should not give alarm, We leave you some coal to keep yourselves warm. A shiny new gavel for Brian Melendez, Who hopes all the Council will do just as he says. Those eager dissenters now have reason for pause. Their leader awaits them with copious bylaws. To the Quad folk--from your dearly beloved Dean Fox, Alas, look ye forward to many empty socks. And although good ole Cabot will renovate soon. Those poor folks up there cannot transfer till June. While up at NoHo, they"ll tear...
...disaster in Bhopal was the latest in a series of major industrial mishaps around the world, some with immediate fatal results, others with lingering, long-term consequences. Last week in Taiwan, leaking methane gas in a coal shaft triggered an explosion that killed 33 miners. Two weeks earlier, a liquefied-natural-gas explosion claimed 452 lives near a Mexico City shantytown. As the list of such man-made tragedies grows, concern is rising everywhere that industrial safety standards are often higher in the U.S. than in developing countries, and that some U.S. firms may have opened plants abroad to take...
...whether or not fresh Soviet financial help is forthcoming, the tide in the bitter coal strike is turning against the union. In the past three weeks, more than 13,000 striking miners have quit the picket lines. Compared with the early days of the strike, when only 40,000 of the nation's 189,000 N.U.M. members were working, more than 63,000 are now back at their jobs, according to the government's National Coal Board. Hundreds more are returning every day. "Follow me on the road to sanity," urged John Cunningham, a longtime local officer...
...want to leave it at that. Even though Scargill claimed last week that the embargo was continuing, the Kremlin was noticeably silent on the subject. Though Britain sees no possibility of a cutoff, it still wants no talk about any thing that could threaten the large quantities of Polish coal that it needs in order to help keep its power stations running this winter. And Moscow is highly sensitive to charges that it uses energy for blackmail. Embargo or no, the fact that the Soviets made the threat gives West European governments good reason to recall the Reagan Administration...