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Just after Schaufelberger honked his horn to signal his friend, a small van pulled up beside him. A man described by witnesses as tall, young and well dressed stepped out and coolly fired four shots through the open window of Schaufelberger's car. His auto lurched forward, crashing against a parked car. Urging bystanders to remain calm, the assassin casually reached into the Maverick and turned off the ignition; then he and his accomplices drove off in their van. Schaufelberger, who had been hit in the head with three small-caliber bullets, was pronounced dead on arrival...
...production snafus and bottlenecks. In 1979 Dover Elevator Co. formed quality circles at its Horn Lake, Miss., plant. Says Robert Scott, Dover's quality-circle coordinator: "It has done so many good things you can't even count them. I suppose if it were to be put in dollar terms, we have had a $12 to $15 payback on each dollar invested in the program." One quality circle suggested a way to install elevators in shafts more economically; the improvement will save Dover $2.5 million over the next five years. Westinghouse Electric Corp., with more than...
...Cape Town, he piled up a one-week, 1,500-mile lead over his nearest competitor. That was the way it went, around the world; across the southern reaches of the Indian Ocean to Sydney, Australia; through the roaring forties and raging fifties of the southern ocean to Cape Horn, the sailor's nemesis; then on to Rio de Janeiro; and during the relatively tranquil run back to Newport...
...muscular, 163-lb. athlete who has a black belt in judo, Jeantot walked off his floating home at Newport as jauntily as if he were returning from a stroll. Of the few bad times during the voyage, the worst, he said, came between Sydney and Cape Horn, when he had to go far south to pick up the prevailing westerly wind. For 13 days near 58° south latitude, he never saw the sun and at tunes could not even see the top of his mast. "Everything on board was wet and cold," he recalls, "and it was dangerous when...
...Minutemen then effectively used a stall to keep the ball away from the Crimson in the final two minutes. When Maggie Hart's desperation shot rolled far short as the horn sounded. UMass had its biggest triumph of the year...