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This Bronx-reared Barnum has magazines in his blood. In the 1960s and '70s, working as a cover designer with the late editor Harold Hayes, Lois turned Esquire's cover into a gallery that registered every shock of those seismic years. As an adman, he taught America's children the insistent demand "I want my Maypo." In the early 1980s he recycled the line to meet their grownup tastes: "I want my MTV." And he's the man who told people, "When you got it, flaunt it" (for Braniff airlines, remember?), a pretty good description of his advertising ethos...
...guard: all three companies are expected to get new chief executives in the space of two years. Late last week Ford Chairman Donald Petersen, 63, who helped engineer that company's heroic comeback, said he will turn over the posts of chairman and CEO on March 1 to Harold Poling, 64, a vice chairman...
...Harold Hawkes, Harvard's associate director for engineering and utilities, said the University uses about 115 million kilowatts of electricity and 600 thousand tons of fuel annually--at a cost of $15 million. He said those figures can be reduced by monitoring of energy use more closely and improving insulation of buildings...
...this case the focus of attention was the Amiga, a personal computer introduced by Commodore four years ago, whose sagging sales and fading image the company is trying to repair. Said Commodore president Harold Copperman: "This is not a celebration of new technology. This is a strategic repositioning and repackaging...
...Anybody who says we've got this problem licked is a fool or a knave or both." Microbiologist J. Michael Bishop was referring to the slow, almost imperceptible progress in the search for a cancer cure. So when Bishop, 53, and colleague Harold E. Varmus, 49, were awakened early last Monday with word that the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm had awarded them the Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine, both were startled. Bishop called the news "surreal" and Varmus insisted on verifying the information. Others were less surprised. Said Dr. David Baltimore of M.I.T.'s Whitehead Institute...