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Last week's stamp of approval makes it even more likely that Conrail can be removed from public stewardship and sold to a private owner. The Government is trying hard to do just that. The investment banking firm of Goldman, Sachs & Co. has been hired to find a buyer. During her speaking appearances, Transportation Secretary Elizabeth Dole frequently asks audiences: "If you know of anyone who wants to buy a railroad, please let me know." Now that Conrail is running steadily in the black, the Government will insist that the railroad be sold intact and not piece by piece...
...exactly the pinnacle of his career, the 60th birthday party for former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger did turn out to be a summit of sorts. Invited by his onetime student, Harvard Lecturer Guido Goldman, to wine and dine the evening away at New York City's Pierre Hotel last week, the 400 guests included such luminaries as former West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, former President Gerald Ford, Secretary of State George Shultz and the widows of the Shah of Iran, Anwar Sadat, Lyndon Johnson and Nelson Rockefeller. Asked how he felt about getting older, Kissinger remained loyal...
Calling the protests unfair, Guido Goldman, director of the program, said he will try to use the meeting to "explain why naming the program after McCley is appropriate...
Pessimism abounded. A few years ago, the metric forces thought they could get the U.S. to switch in a decade. Now they do not expect metric to prevail before the year 2000. "It will be a generational change," says David Goldman, head of the National Bureau of Standards' metric office. "Only when youngsters who learned metrics in school reach upper-level management will the change really occur." Nor can the metric campaign expect much help. Though Deputy Secretary of Commerce Guy Fiske warned that American industry faces increasing resistance in trying to sell nonmetric goods abroad, the Administration...
NONFICTION: Adventures in the Screen Trade, William Goldman Eleni, Nicholas Gage ∙Frida, Hayden Herrera ∙ Lectures on Don Quixote, Vladimir Nabokov Salvador, Joan Didion ∙ White Mischief, James...