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...outside Penn Station already offers one convenience virtually unknown in Chinatown: a sign. The neatly dressed driver, speaking good English, politely collects the tickets. On a recent afternoon, the 61-seat bus is only a third full, but the driver closes the door and heads off on the four-hour trip to Washington on time at 5:30 p.m. sharp--even though Wong says he needs 30 passengers to break even. "If you do not know how to take care of customers," Wong says, "in the long run, you will never succeed...
They hired brilliant programmers straight out of school. Jack's $1,500-a-month Social Security check covered living expenses for three adults and two children, complete with a cook and driver. Working 12-hour days, they hunted for investors and finally found their angel, an oil company CEO, who put up $600,000 and brought in other investors. After 18 months in India, VirtuosoWorks, Indian staff and all, moved to Greensboro. NOTION, launched last spring, according to Sonic Control magazine, "has the potential to become the first true mass-market music software...
...Atlanta, where the newspapers said King was leaving for a march in Memphis, arriving late the previous night. This day, reading front-page news that King was staying at the Lorraine, and perhaps hearing radio reports that specified Room 306, he had located and studied the motel until an hour ago, when he rented a room for $8.50 per week in Bessie Brewer's flophouse next door to Fire Station Number 2. With the seven-power Bushnells, he could read room numbers on the motel doors 70 yards distant, and the same strength on his Redfield scope would make human...
...crowd, as ominous streaks of gray and purple crossed the sky from the west. Radio bulletins told of a seven o'clock twister that picked up and dumped a stretch of asphalt on cars near Star City, Ark., killing seven people, and the first squalls hit Memphis half an hour later in slanted sheets of rain. Phone calls from the Lorraine to Lawson in Mason Temple verified that the crowd indeed was thin--perhaps fewer than 2,000 in the huge hall that had packed seven times that many for King's visit on March 18. He feared the sharp...
...trying it. But this was the year's greatest squandered opportunity. What should have been a thought provoking look at a war in the midst of being fought became a cliche-filled hodgepodge that managed to make the most important issue in America boring for an hour every week...