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Every great athlete fascinates Rose. Once he used to sit up all night in the car listening to West Coast games; now he keeps his satellite dish as hot as a wok. He peppers his discourses on his own records with Richie Allen's homers and Jim Bunning's shutouts. Rose is no more self-centered than a fried egg. "Sometimes I get the feeling that everyone thinks I spend all of my time working out statistics," he says defensively. As a matter of fact, First Wife Karolyn testifies, "There never was a morning when I didn't see Pete...
...Midwest, 5,000 Americans are marching together for disarmament. The huge procession, which set out from Los 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...
Nyerere's successor is Ali Hassan Mwinyi, 60, former President of Zanzibar, a semiautonomous island off the Tanzanian coast.[*] Mwinyi was nominated to succeed Nyerere last September by the national executive committee of Tanzania's sole political party, the Chama Cha Mapinduzi, or Revolutionary Party. He will run unopposed in popular elections scheduled for this week. Meanwhile, in other parts of Africa, voters in the Ivory Coast (pop. 10 million) are expected this week to endorse 80-year-old Félix Houphouët-Boigny's uncontested bid for a sixth five-year term as President. In Liberia (pop. 2 million...
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...
Even Bahrain, once the shining jewel of gulf finance, has been having troubles. The island country off the coast of Saudi Arabia emerged in the 1970s as a haven for Westerners and a banking center for the entire region. At one time local officials dreamed that it would become a world financial capital in a class with Singapore. No one talks that way today. The decline in construction financing and restrictions by Saudi Arabia on dealings in the riyal, the Saudi currency, have hurt business. Many banks, including Citibank and Chase Manhattan, have slashed staffs and slimmed operations...