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Hertz last week got someone new in its driver's seat. UAL Inc., the $6.9 billion parent of United Airlines, announced plans to buy the largest and oldest (founded 1918) U.S. car-rental company for $587.5 million in cash from RCA, which has owned it for 18 years. By combining Hertz (1984 sales: $1.4 billion) with America's largest airline and UAL's 54-unit luxury Westin Hotel subsidiary, the deal will create a travel and hotel complex to serve the business traveler from plane to car to bed. Said UAL Chairman Richard Ferris: "The sun, the moon...
...Schlesinger. Schlesinger was Secretary of Energy under former President Carter and Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. He currently is a senior advisor of Shearson Lehman Brother, Inc. and has been involved in advisory councils at the Kennedy School of Government and at Georgetown University...
...trial without precedent: three corporate officials accused of murder after one of their employees died as a result of hazardous conditions in the plant where he worked. Last week Illinois Judge Ronald J.P. Banks issued the stunning landmark verdict: the executives and the now defunct Film Recovery Systems Inc. were found guilty in the 1983 death of Stefan Golab by cyanide poisoning...
Queso Fresco and Cotija are household words in many Hispanic homes, particularly in Los Angeles. The two south-of-the-border-style cheeses are made by the Jalisco Mexican Products Inc. plant in Artesia, Calif., whose major markets are in nine Western states. But 22 deaths or stillbirths in Los Angeles County have been linked to the soft white cheeses, which federal health officials say were contaminated with the deadly and fast-acting bacterium Listeria monocytogenes. In virtually all of the 94 confirmed cases, Hispanics have been the victims...
...other volumes are on the way. "Lewis wrote 45 books," proclaims Martin. "And Black Sparrow has reprint rights to all of them. It's like having an exclusive option on the Inca Empire." If North Point represents the classical approach to publishing and Black Sparrow the romantic, William Kaufmann Inc. stands for the technocratic. The two letters most frequently heard at Kaufmann's modest headquarters in Los Altos, Calif., are "AI" (artificial intelligence), the science of making computers "think." In 1980 a professor from nearby Stanford came to Kaufmann, a former editor of science books, with a handbook of artificial...