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...about him. Rauschenberg, who had been visiting China to supervise a show of his work in Peking and Tibet, met with Art Director Rudy Hoglund in Japan. Says Hoglund: "We thought he would be able to suggest something new and revolutionary for a Deng cover." The artist used his firsthand observation and some of his own photographs to create a collage of images, including a scissors cutting a ribbon to show that something new is opening in China. Says Rauschenberg, who also visited the country in 1982: "Today there is a new spirit, a new curiosity, that was missing three...
...decided to do things differently. "I usually write about abstract things like economic policy," he says. "My previous cover story was on the budget deficit, and I got buried under statistical reports. This one was a change of pace, a consumer-oriented subject. It made sense to take a firsthand look...
Supplementing his firsthand experience were more extensive reports from New York Correspondent Thomas McCarroll, who also made several flights and talked with People passengers, along with employees and ex-employees, competitors, Wall Street analysts and travel agents. In Bernardsville, N.J., he and Senior Correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer spoke at length with People Express Chairman Donald Burr. "It was an unorthodox, invigorating interview," McCarroll recalls. "It's rare for the chief executive of any company to be so frank. He never avoided a single question...
...enormous extent of the President's memory impresses me," says Morris. On almost any subject from the past half-century that Morris has raised, Reagan has had an observation based on firsthand experience: the Depression, the Smoot-Hawley Tariff, the rise of fascism, name it. Nothing escapes Morris' scrutiny. He has become convinced, for instance, that that lush, indestructible head of dark hair plays a part in the imagery of perpetual Reagan youth and thus in his remarkable leadership...
...factory managers to work as a team to weed out potential defects. Twice a month, Chung summons senior managers into a conference room at his Seoul headquarters to analyze reliability issues, sometimes bringing in a whole car and lifting it up on a hydraulic platform to get a firsthand look. Likewise, the company's 68,000 workers are encouraged to make suggestions for improving quality in regular factory-floor meetings. Late last year, Yu Seung Byul, a quality inspector in Hyundai's Asan factory in Korea, invented an improved method for detecting missing bolts and brackets in hard...