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Executives of both companies expressed great delight last year when Capital Cities Communications (est. 1985 sales: $1 billion) agreed to buy the four-times-as-large American Broadcasting Cos. for $3.5 billion. Still, few experts were surprised last week when Fred Pierce, 52, resigned as ABC president only days after the merger officially took effect...
...says. "It's like all their nerve endings are connected directly to their eyes. Technology is a nonsubject to them. They want to design, but they don't want to build." Stumpf, a big, lusty child of the Midwest, wants to make things that work as well as delight. --By Kurt Andersen
...guiding purpose of Director Stephen Porter appears to be, as in most Shaw productions these days, to provide a showcase for acting in the old grandiloquent, gestural style. By that measure, You Never Can Tell is a thoroughgoing delight. Hagen can be one of the stage's great ripsnorting viragoes, as she demonstrated last year off-Broadway in the title role of Shaw's Mrs.Warren's Profession. At first it seems a little odd to see her instead as a dithery, warmhearted mother who is preoccupied with her children's welfare, but she brings to the part a serene decency...
...Stem-Cell Breakthrough "Inside the Korean Cloning Lab" [may 30] reported that South Korean scientists have created human stem-cell lines that are perfectly matched to the dna of human patients. That story gave me mingled feelings of delight and worry. Although the whole world is now one step closer to an ideal situation for studying how diseases develop, I worry about whether the U.S. can maintain its scientific and technological superiority. Many other countries have been vigorously pursuing stem-cell projects, while the U.S. government restricts the research that federally funded scientists may do in that field. I hope...
...blessed to work for Sam Walton," he says, "and I am doubly blessed to work in China." Walking through a brightly lighted store in Shenzhen, the boom town across the border from Hong Kong, Hatfield, who heads Wal-Mart's retail operations in China, can't disguise his delight over the--what else?--"everyday low prices!" He zips over to an electronic keyboard selling for $20. "It was three times more a few years ago!" he exclaims. He pauses at a bathroom scale that used to sell for $6 and now is just $2.50. "We found a new vendor...