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Warned that Allen was nearing, Texans from Brownsville to Galveston frantically boarded up their homes and shops and 200,000 people fled coastal areas. Hardware stores sold out of batteries, candles, masking tape and flashlights. Canned goods and bottled water disappeared from grocery shelves. Hotels inland were booked to capacity...
...graduated from Austin College in Sherman, Texas, and the Wharton School. He was vice president for finance at Temple Industries when Time Inc. acquired that Texas-based forest products firm in 1973. He later served as treasurer of Time Inc. and publisher of FORTUNE, and is now chairman of Inland Container Corp., a Time Inc. subsidiary that produces corrugated boxes. In his new post, Grum will supervise the activities of five group vice presidents. Says Heiskell: "Clifford is a very savvy, financially oriented man with a good knowledge of the forest products business...
During the eleven-year tenure of Heiskell and Shepley, Time Inc. has grown rapidly and diversified broadly. In the past three years alone, it acquired Inland Container, American Television and Communications Corp. (the nation's second largest cable-TV company), Book-of-the-Month Club and the Washington Star, relaunched LIFE and converted FORTUNE from a monthly to a fortnightly. In October the company will introduce a new science magazine, DISCOVER...
...economic survival, Mozambique depends primarily on South Africa. Pretoria runs the railroad that links many South African inland cities to the Indian Ocean port facilities at Maputo. It also buys most of the hydroelectric power produced by Mozambique's Cabora Bassa Dam on the Zambezi River. About 35,000 Mozambican workers are employed in South Africa's gold and coal mines. Although Machel opposes South Africa's apartheid policies, he also recognizes that the two countries share a long common border. "This is a reality that can be neither ignored nor altered," he says. "Peaceful co-existence...
...part, Shang craftsmen from the area near the Yellow River tried to make their decorative designs blend with and enhance the vessel's shape. Artisans in more remote regions-Shang influence ranged over a geographical area the size of the whole eastern U.S. from Maine to Florida and inland as far as Ohio -were more adventurous, as shown in one vessel whose corners become rams' heads supported by thrusting foreshoulders and incised feet. Not content, the artist decorated the rams' haunches with crested birds, and set snakelike dragons coiling around the vessel's shoulder...