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...officials scoff at the idea that there is anything the highly industrialized U.S.S.R. could learn from agrarian China. But they have at least been inquisitive about Deng's reforms, and by some indications more impressed than they like to admit. Dwayne Andreas, chairman of Archer Daniels Midland Co. (a giant U.S. corporation dealing in farm produce) and a frequent visitor to China, journeyed to Moscow in 1984 and had a two-hour private talk with Gorbachev, who was then still in charge of Soviet agriculture. "He was very curious about what I told him concerning the reforms," Andreas recalls...
...third of Haiti's $480 million annual budget, may also dry up. The U.S. is now in the process of examining Haiti's human rights record as a precondition to releasing $56 million in aid earmarked for the country. Duvalier's harsh response to the recent protests was a "giant step backward," says a U.S. diplomat in Port-au-Prince. In an effort to make amends, former Foreign Minister Jean-Robert Estimé traveled to Washington last month to meet with State Department officials. The Duvalier government promptly announced that it was undertaking an investigation of the Gonaïves school principal...
...baseball and set Veeck's fellow owners fuming. As owner of the St. Louis Browns, Veeck (as in wreck) hired 3-ft. 7-in. Eddie Gaedel and trained him to crouch low so his strike zone was approximately 1 ½ in. Wearing uniform No. 1/8, Gaedel emerged from a giant birthday cake between games of a doubleheader against the Detroit Tigers on Aug. 19, 1951, and stepped up to lead off for the Browns in the second game. As expected, Gaedel walked on four pitches and retired from baseball. Next day the American League barred all midgets. Veeck talked about...
...other institutions. Most of the trading was thus probably not done by big investors. Shareholders who sold before early Wednesday afternoon stood to make huge profits, but those who held on too long watched their earnings evaporate. Said Bruce Lazier, an analyst at Prescott Ball & Turben: "Somebody did a giant con job on a lot of investors...
...height--and now.810 on the Hall of Fame ballot. That number represents 346 out of a possible 425 votes and makes Willie McCovey only the 16th player to enter the hall in his rookie year of eligibility. But "Stretch" always started fast. The San Francisco Giant first baseman was a Rookie of the Year in 1959. Second in this year's voting, four votes below the 319 needed, was Billy Williams, hard-hitting outfielder for the Chicago Cubs. But Yankee Slugger Roger Maris, whose 61 homers in 1961 broke Babe Ruth's immortal record, died last month while ballots were...