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...text is peppered with scientific terms like amino acids and catalase, but it is so riddled with errors that entomologists cannot begin to guess where Rue got her information. (For example, the beetles do not spray their eggs with tear gas for protection, as the author maintains.) Biologist Thomas Eisner of Cornell University, one of the world's leading bombardier experts, says of the book, "I've never seen anything like...
...action put 1,500 employees out of work and left five small cities without any scheduled airline service. Many of those familiar with PBA expressed faith in the company. Said Isidore Eisner, manager of the New Bedford, Mass., Municipal Airport: "PBA has a proud and good reputation." Most PBA employees felt that the FAA action had been too drastic. Said Robin Hamilton, who sells charter flights for the airline: "I've never had one minute's hesitation jumping on one of our planes. This is the best job I ever...
Gulf & Western replaced Diller with Frank Mancuso, 51, Paramount's marketing chief. Michael Eisner, 42, Diller's former second in command, quit his post, apparently because Mancuso got the job he wanted. There were rumors that Diller would bring Eisner to Fox, which needs an infusion of fresh ideas...
...Herald endorsed David Finnegan. "The overriding concern is who you think would be best for the city as a whole." Deputy Managing Editor Allen Eisner said of their choice. But according to one participant in the Herald's deliberations, the endorsement was "not just a discussion of who would govern the city best, but who has a reasonable chance to win and who would most benefit the Herald, He said editors asked. "Would he owe us? If we endorsed now, would we have impact. and which candidate would the endorsement help the most...
Until last week, when reporters assigned to Central America have talked of trouble and danger, they have nearly always meant El Salvador. Said Peter Eisner, the Central America news editor for Associated Press: "The focus of fighting has been there." In San Salvador, reporters sometimes face searches of their apartments, sloppy telephone taps and occasional death threats made in anonymous calls or leaflets. On the Honduras-Nicaragua border, which some leading correspondents last week labeled the new most hazardous spot in an increasingly strife-torn region, there is an emerging hint of precaution. Said Tamayo regretfully: "In El Salvador, journalists...