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...pilots' union has looked favorably on the deal. So have rank- and-file machinists, but by week's end machinists' union officials were criticizing the transaction as a giveaway to Lorenzo. "I think the deal stinks. They are cutting up Eastern so that it can't survive," said Wally Haber, senior general chairman of the airline's machinists' union. "I like to play baseball, but I like to play on a winning team." Some labor officials may have been talking tough because they still had to go to the bargaining table with Ueberroth...
Ovitz, who shares power with CAA co-founders Ron Meyer, 44, and Bill Haber, 46, has shown an uncanny touch for putting stories and stars together. The agency had a hand in assembling the elements of four current box-office hits: Rain Man, Mississippi Burning, Twins and Scrooged. Among its TV successes are Golden Girls and Beauty and the Beast. Says Barry Diller, chief executive of Fox Inc.: "CAA represents a lot of good people, and is very aggressive in how they link them to each other. It's all about selling, and they're very good...
Faced with such competition and hard work, freshmen may find it hard to make time to play and develop the friendships that are supposed to last through the 50th reunion. "It's a whirlwind," says Pamela Haber, a University of Michigan sophomore. "You make friends, you drop them." Many find that having an entirely new pool of classmates is a greatly liberating experience. Hated nicknames are finally shed, new affectations can be tried on and discarded. "Nobody has to know that you were shy in high school," says Veronica Lawson, 18, a Rhodes sophomore who counsels freshmen. "I tell freshmen...
...physicists had learned that atoms are built of subatomic particles, when Ernst Ruska first thought to use one such particle -- the electron -- to discern objects too small to see with conventional light microscopes. By 1931 he had built the first working electron microscope. Ruska, now retired from the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society in West Berlin, has at long last won the Nobel Prize for his invention, which was cited by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences as "one of the most important of the century." Said Ruska, 79, who learned of the honor while...
...bestseller, Breakdancing (Avon; $2.95), by Mr. Fresh and the Supreme Rockers, has sold 600,000 copies. Says Avon Executive Leigh Haber: "Break dancing has created incredible excitement. It's no longer just a trend...