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...Latinization of Germany can be seen in lingering lunch breaks, overflowing cafes, empty offices, on packed golf courses or deserted city streets on weekends. "The Germans," complains one employer, "have more short breaks and holidays than anyone else." Adding it all up, the average West German has at least two months off a year...
...pressure to Eastern Europe, many people may decide to head for the beach. To accommodate them, Paris-based Club Med plans to open a resort next year on the Black Sea coast of Bulgaria (pop. 9 million). The facility will include a 600-room hotel and will share a golf course with a twelve-year-old Club Med in a nearby town. Says Jean-Luc Oizan-Chapon, Club Med's chief operating officer: "We were here before the doors were open, and now our time has come...
...Navratilova, who defected in 1975, is a naturalized U.S. citizen; Lendl, who renounced his former homeland more subtly, soon will be. Both struggled to master English, and both now speak it fluently, with a dry, self- belittling wit. Both love all manner of sports: Lendl is a fiend for golf and hockey, while Navratilova is enchanted with skiing, basketball and, as a spectator, American football. Both rose to the top through raw physical power, and both have seen the game evolve so much, in terms of their opponents' fitness and sheer anatomical size, that each now relies more on cunning...
...Thomas Ryder, president of American Express Publishing, predicts that the consumer-magazine industry will emerge from its slump during the next 18 months "shaken, but stronger for it." In the meantime, certain less glamorous market niches are flourishing: witness the success of highly targeted publications like Model Railroader and Golf Illustrated. Service and life-style magazines, meanwhile, , are attracting some keenly interested, well-financed investors. American Express recently acquired D (for Dallas) and Atlanta as part of a plan to expand into 20 city markets. And on June 1 Time Inc. Magazines paid approximately $215 million for the parent company...
About 35 years ago, Dr. George Simkins challenged that prejudice when he ventured onto Gillespie Golf Course for a historic round of golf, a match that eventually opened the course to blacks. Today the public course is a mainstay for black golfers, since no blacks belong to the city's private country clubs. But no one battles that exclusion. "It's like jumping to the moon," Simkins explains. "You know you can't do it, so you never...