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...eleventh event to the decathlon: clowning around. He came to one press conference sporting a floppy hat, then doffed it, revealing his head swathed in bandages. "All this talk of Hingsen is giving me a headache," Thompson said in his lilting London accent. In their four international head-to-head contests, though, Thompson had never lost...
...down in bureaucracy to compete profitably with other banks. Staff morale at Continental would probably suffer, and top executives would leave the bank. At one time the largest commercial and industrial lender in the U.S., Continental would rank as only a regional player, half the size of its former head-to-head rival, First Chicago (assets: $40.5 billion...
...hiring of minorities, and end the second, or runoff, primaries used in ten states when no candidate wins a majority of the vote. (Jackson argues that runoffs are discriminatory because blacks have a better chance of winning a plurality in a multicandidate field than outpolling a white in a head-to-head race.) Gary Hart, who commands roughly 1,250 of the 3,933 delegates and is still under consideration for the second spot on the ticket, will push a plan advocating that the nation seek remedies other than the use of military force to resolve international conflicts...
...candidate who might best expand Mondale's base is Gary Hart. In a Harris poll released last week, the Colorado Senator performed 10 points better than Mondale in head-to-head competition against Reagan, losing by a mere 46% to 51%; Mondale trailed the President 41% to 56%. To Hart, such polling results argue that he, not Mondale, should be the presidential nominee. Hart no longer attacks Mondale personally. Indeed, his supporters are now trying to position their man as a vice-presidential candidate. In a speech at the National Press Club last week, Hart sounded like...
...City. A C.P. A. from a brass-knuckled North Philadelphia slum, he was working for the New Holland farm machinery company when it was taken over by Sperry in 1947; he kept that operation running profitably during the 1960s when the company's Univac division was bungling its head-to-head computer competition with IBM. As Sperry's boss, he more than tripled revenues to $5.6 billion, pushed for high-tech sales to the Soviet Union, expanded ex ports so that 44% of Sperry's business was overseas, then saw foreign currency and interest fluctuations...