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True enough, but it is difficult for an industry to exist when some of the owners are in it for fun and games and do not worry too much about making a profit. Admits Corey Busch, executive vice president of the ailing San Francisco Giants: "There's a breaking point coming. Baseball has to be run more as a business." The danger is that the executive boys of summer, with their checkbook recruiting and creative accounting, will make it impossible for professional sports to operate in the black. --By Charles P. Alexander. Reported by Thomas McCarroll/New York, with other bureaus
Anglo-French Millionaire Sir James Goldsmith jets frequently between London, where he controls Cavenham holding company, Paris, where he owns the magazine L'Express, and New York City, where he watches over his Grand Union grocery-store chain. Goldsmith, 52, last week added another stop to his travels: San Francisco. He emerged victorious after an eight-month battle for Crown Zellerbach, the $3 billion California-based paper and forestry giant, and was named chairman of the board. Goldsmith now controls 51.3% of Crown's 27.4 million outstanding shares, and his investment partnership, General Oriental Securities, will get six of eleven...
Edward Dunbar seemed to have achieved the American dream. In the mid-1970s, the Castro Valley, Calif., resident started Dunbar Oil with a single discount gas station. When the oil crisis hit, business boomed, and Dunbar Oil grew into a chain of 34 stations strung around San Francisco Bay. By 1981 the company was earning more than $33 million a year...
...with multidrug experiments and more extensive tests of existing drugs. "It's terrible going into room upon room of patients who ask what we can do, and to have to tell them we have nothing to offer," says Dr. Donald Abrams, assistant director of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. One major obstacle, researchers agree, is a lack of federal funds. "The Administration is giving lip service to this disease but not the funding," complains Immunologist Allan Goldstein of George Washington University. Federal allocations for AIDS research have risen steadily from $5.5 million in 1982 to $106.5 million...
...showed a gift for comedy in a series of romances (like Pillow Talk) that he made with Doris Day in the late '50s and early '60s. As his movie career faded, he turned to TV, demonstrating his continuing appeal in McMillan and Wife as the crime-solving San Francisco police commissioner and later in Dynasty, in which he gamely but unsuccessfully pursued Krystle (Linda Evans...