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...them. He gives low marks to CBS, which had shed 87% of the businesses it acquired in the 30-year period; and RCA, now a unit of General Electric, which had dropped 80%. Why do so many executives diversify? Porter shrugs, saying, "They're drawn like moths to the flame...
...large numbers of English-speaking South Africans, who normally are more liberal on racial issues than the Afrikaners, jumped this time from the Progressives to the National Party. Concluded an editorial in the Johannesburg newspaper Business Day: "English voters, sacrificing at last the role of keepers of a liberal flame, chose to liquidate themselves as an identifiable political force...
...carried a capacity load of 172 passengers and eleven crew members as it lifted off from Warsaw's Okecie Airport last Saturday en route to New York City. About half an hour into the flight, two of the Soviet-built Ilyushin 62M jetliner's four engines apparently burst into flame. In a frantic effort to reach safety, the pilot turned about, dumped most of the plane's fuel and headed back to Okecie. Before he could make it, the other two engines caught fire...
...quest, the quest, what was the quest? College degeneracy with a time warp twist, boy meets blind date, meets his past, meets his maker. No, not his maker, but a girl. A mystery girl, a girl who had for Dave the body, mind, and allure of a fourth grade flame, but the voice of a Smith coed. No, not coed, couldn't be a coed in an all girl's school...
...estate in a river valley near Salisbury. There he stays for another decade, watching the changes in the land and people around him and experiencing mixed feelings about what he sees as "a world in flux: the drum of creation in the god's right hand, the flame of destruction in his left...