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Dolphins, which are among the more intelligent mammals, seem to have recognized the tuna-fishing threat. As recently as 15 years ago, says Veteran Tuna Skipper Harold Medina, they could be rounded up easily with a couple of skiffs propelled by small outboards. Sometimes they would even play in the mother ship's bow wave. Now, in areas where dolphins have been heavily fished, they are much more difficult to corral, forcing the fishermen to resort to more and higher-powered chase boats. Mexican fishermen call these recently sophisticated dolphins the "untouchables," because they disappear at the first sight...
Directed by Harold Ramis...
...literature beg to differ. Newman Communications Corp., one of the fastest-growing tape publishers in the U.S., began in 1981 with sales of less than $200,000, which leaped to more than $7 million three years later. "We're not dealing with a Hula-Hoop phenomenon," says its president, Harold J. Newman. "The underlying base of the business continues to grow every year, and bookstores continue to dedicate more space to books on cassette." Another successful producer, Listen for Pleasure, also refuses to heed the Cassandras. "At first no one understood what we were selling," says Vice President Eileen Rundell...
...only time the 107-year-old Crystal Palace ever closed its doors was during Prohibition. At one time or other, it served as a makeshift movie theater and honky-tonk. In 1963 Wallace Clayton, editor of the National Tombstone Epitaph, and Partner Harold Love, along with two other investors, bought the place for $100,000 and spent another $100,000 restoring its original 1880s decor, including 20-ft. ceilings, swinging doors and frosted- glass windows. Now Clayton and Love's widow are ready to retire, but they say that the Crystal Palace is profitable. Local ranchers and tourists enjoy being...
...Chairman Rand Araskog has spun off some 95 businesses worth about $4 billion. Meanwhile, he has channeled resources into such prized divisions as the Hartford insurance company and the Sheraton chain of 488 hotels and resorts. Says Herbert Goodfriend, a telecommunications analyst at Prudential-Bache: "Araskog is dismantling Harold Geneen's empire...