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...manufacturers' problems are deep and astonishingly widespread. At midweek, IBM, the world's largest computer maker and the prototype of a successful company, shocked Wall Street by announcing that its earnings for the first nine months of this year will be below those for the same period in 1984. The news helped send the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 23 points in two days. Shares of IBM stock tumbled...
Sandwiched between those developments was word that Burroughs and Sperry, two older computer makers that have long lived in IBM's shadow, were engaging in merger talks in hopes of competing more effectively together than apart. Such a combination would create the second largest manufacturer of data processing machines...
Still, some psychiatrists and educators took issue with the notion that segregating homosexual students in a separate facility is the best solution for their difficulties at other schools. In San Francisco, which has one of the largest homosexual populations in the U.S., Schools Spokesman Felix Duag doubted that his city would follow New York's example. Said Duag: "We try to mainstream students so that they have the experience of meeting boys and girls from all walks of life, because that is what they're going to do when they graduate...
General Motors Chairman Roger Bonham Smith, who turns 60 next month, does not look as if he would shake apples from a tree, let alone the entire trunk and limb structure of the world's largest automaker. He is moderate in build (5 ft. 9 in.) and pale of mien. He used to speak in a squeaky voice when excited, but he conquered it by forcing himself to take short breaths in midsentence. Smith can walk the floors of auto shows unrecognized, while customers and dealers flock to see his better-known rival, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca...
...reconsider its racial policies. South Africa is so dependent on U.S. investments (now at about $15 billion), the argument goes, that the threat of losing them would be enough to bring about some internal changes. In addition, divestment advocates say that sanctions by the U.S., once South Africa's largest trading partner, send a clear statement to the global community condemning Pretoria's apartheid policies. "It is time for us as a nation to put our beliefs into action," said Democrat William Gray of Pennsylvania, chief sponsor of the House measure...