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Pepita, ostensibly a biography of Victoria's mother, offered a devastating portrait of Vita Sackville-West's own mother, a "pure undiluted peasant," whose tantrums made austere Knole echo like some Andalusian marketplace. Victoria, wrote her daughter, was "a powerful dynamo generating nothing," an imperious, high-strung woman given to firing her servants on a whim and more turbulent than Lady Macbeth. "I think perhaps you do not realise," Victoria complained to Lord Kitchener in the midst of World War I, "that we employ five carpenters and four painters and two blacksmiths and two footmen...
...dynamo of an executive who made such a mark in a 20-year career at International Business Machines Corp. that Jimmy Carter considered appointing her his Commerce Secretary before she took herself out of the running. Last week Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, 45, found something more to her liking. NBC President and Chief Executive Fred Silverman named her the network's chairman, succeeding Old Pro Julian Goodman, 56, who moves to chairman of the executive committee...
Because of his rambunctious style, Califano is a tempting target for nicknames. He has been called "Crazy Califano," "Mad, Mad Joe," "the Dynamo".and "the Boy Earthquake." He has also been described as "a loose cannon," and, contrarily, "a torpedo?point him in one direction and he goes." When the tobacco lobby, outraged by Califano's drive to keep young people from smoking, printed bumper stickers proclaiming, CALIFANO IS DANGEROUS TO MY HEALTH, some of the Secretary's subordinates proudly pasted them on their office walls...
Gone from last season's dynamo are a pair of all-Americans, goalie Brian Shields and now-Los Angeles Kings center Dave Taylor, but nearly everyone else has returned. Among the standouts on this year's squad are forwards Kevin Zappia, the leading scorer in the ECAC, and Marty McNally, as well as all-American defenseman Bill Blackwood...
Edwardes, 47, is a 5-ft. 2-in. dynamo who has proved himself as a manager: as chief of the 20,000 employee battery-making Chloride Group, he almost quintupled profits in five years to $47.5 million. He won the Guardian Young Businessman of the Year award in 1975. Though he will have to negotiate a companywide pact, Edwardes is a fervent believer in decentralized management who pledges to use "ruthless logic" in organizing executive teams to run Leyland as a group of "profit centers." He had better hurry...