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...asks. The company, says CEO Fromstein, realized early that it could capitalize on the labor shortage by supplying clients with the trained and adaptable workers that the firms could not find on their own. Coopers & Lybrand is one of many employers "doing a lot more with internships," says James Lafond, a Washington-area managing partner. Internships offer training to young people while giving them and the company a chance to size one another...
Pearson may find it slightly more difficult to rack up the yardage against Harvard, however. The Minutemen saw two of their best offensive lineman go down with injuries in last week's 27-14 loss to Holy Cross; right guard Scott LaFond has recovered from a minor ankle injury and intends to play this afternoon, but center Tony Pasquale's sore knee might keep him out of action...
First, there was the murder of Henri Lafond, 68, president of the Banque de 1'Union Parisienne. France's second largest investment bank. In the fashionable Paris suburb of Neuilly one morning last week, he set out for his office but got no farther than the back seat of his chauffeur-driven...
Rover. A stocky stranger, wearing a grey hat, a light raincoat and red gloves, opened the rear door and inquired. "Etes-vous Monsieur Lafond?" At Lafond's nod, he pumped two bullets into his victim's abdomen. then shot the chauffeur for good measure...
Excited witnesses reported that the killer limped as he ran to the getaway car, and police leaped to the conclusion that this might well be the work of the notorious S.A.O. terrorist, George Watin, nicknamed "The Limper." Whetting their suspicions was the discovery in Lafond's files of letters from the S.A.O. a year ago, demanding "voluntary contributions" to support the terrorist plots against Charles de Gaulle and other "enemies" of their movement. The wealthy banker had refused to cooperate...