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Alexis, daahr-ling. Of course we know that you and Dynasty are simply the last word in TV glamour. But have you noticed the crowd you have attracted lately? That nasty Morgan Fairchild on Paper Dolls makes and breaks the careers of models half her age with the flick of a fingernail and looks smashing while doing it. The women of Dallas have taken a page from your book and hired their own designer to come up with dazzling new outfits to wear around Southfork. Even TV detectives, for heaven's sake, are starting to look like fashion spreads...
...clear standout among the young companies has been LSI Logic. Since it was founded in 1981, the Silicon Valley firm has become a key supplier of customized logic chips to major computer makers, telecommunications companies and the aerospace industry. LSI President Corrigan, former chairman of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, boasts that his engineers apply "more brains per square inch" to the task of designing chips. Investors seem to agree. LSI Logic was able to raise $152 million by selling stock to an eager public...
Riboud and his company, however, now face stiff challenges. The drop in oil prices has pared Schlumberger's profits, and the firm is still struggling to digest its 1979 acquisition of Fairchild Camera & Instrument, an ailing semiconductor maker. Riboud, who has been granted the right to stay on beyond 65, may face his toughest test when he finally steps down. Says he: "To leave Schlumberger would be like trying to shake an oyster off a rock...
...alter ego, Alexis Carrington, merely engaging once again in deceitful discourse for the sake of her own naughty ends? Not this time. The scene is from Blondes vs Brunettes, an ABC-TV special to be aired next week, which features TV's brunet queen meanie, Collins, and Morgan Fairchild, 34, a blond TV vixen. In one skit they also played sweet post-60 grandmothers who toast each other over tea. Amid the treacle, it is reassuring to remember that the two femmes fatales still have plenty of that good old delicious malicious left in them...
...Semiconductor of Santa Clara, Calif. (1983 sales: $1.2 billion). The firm pleaded guilty to 40 charges of defrauding the Government by failing to test electronic products properly, and agreed to pay nearly $1.8 million in civil and criminal fines. The Defense Department is investigating 14 other military suppliers, including Fairchild Camera & Instrument, a Silicon Valley firm...