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...soon as he enters a room, he already seems to be planning his exit. His eyes dart impatiently, purposefully. He carries a battered briefcase, shuns neckties and favors turned-up-at-the-collar trench coats. His face is boyishly handsome, and his nose shows evidence of having stopped a few punches during a college boxing career. Not much given to small talk, he speaks in clipped, direct phrases. The word action crops up often in his conversation: "action officers," "action plan," "action" used as a synonym for operation. The word itself is an easily deciphered clue, for Lieut. Colonel Oliver...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hard Fall for a Man of Action | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

...seedy chap of dubious breeding who has yet to catch a salmon in 20 years of trying. Meanwhile, the "salmon widows" wait restlessly back at the hotel -- for Holloway to sneak away from the river to yet another noonday tryst. Just as the juvenile parr of the salmon tribe dart in among their unaware elders to fertilize the females' eggs, so does "poor Holloway" put horns on his betters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Rare Bird Open Season | 12/8/1986 | See Source »

FEBRUARYFri. 6 at GBCs Sat. 7 (Harvard host) -Sun. 15 at Brown Dart. 1:00 p.m.Sat. 21 PRIN./YALE 12 p.m.Sat. 28 at Heps

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Sports Preview: the Schedules | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

FEBRUARYFri. 6 at GBCs Sat. 7 (Harvard host) -Sun. 15 at Brown Dart. 1:00 p.m.Sat. 21 PRIN./YALE 12 p.m.Sat. 28 at Heps

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Winter Sports Preview: the Schedules | 12/6/1986 | See Source »

...basic areas of expertise. The latest to join the trend is Chicago's Quaker Oats, the breakfast giant. It will shed its nonfood division, the Specialty Retailing Group, which accounts for 6% of the company's $3.67 billion in sales. Acting on the same impulse, Northbrook, Ill.-based Dart & Kraft (1985 sales: $9.9 billion) had previously announced that it would split into two companies. The Kraft portion will retain its name and virtually all of the food lines, including processed cheeses and salad dressings. The other, still unnamed firm will make Tupperware and electrical appliances. And Chicago's Beatrice Foods...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spinoffs: Crash Diet for Food Firms | 9/1/1986 | See Source »

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