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Three days later, the board of Westinghouse Electric summoned embattled company chairman Paul Lego. Dogged by heavy losses and stockholders' criticism, Lego had fallen out of favor with the board. After a spirited argument, the CEO announced his immediate retirement...
While Akers, Robinson and Lego all claimed they decided to step down willingly, most analysts believe they were pushed out. Says Ralph Whitworth, president of the United Shareholders Association: "They had no choice...
Call it Generation X (from Douglas Coupland's novel of the same name), the MTV Generation, even the Lego Generation...whatever you want. Clinton wants the votes regardless. Reagan kicked off a Republican revolution in 1980 by winning over the young. Now, Clinton has to be thinking, it's his turn...
...Mall of America, opening in Bloomington, Minn., this week, will pass even Disney World to become the hottest vacation destination in the U.S. They expect 40 million visits in 1996. Besides its own amusement park, the mall will feature a Hormel cookout area -- SpamLand? -- and (move over, Epcot!) the LEGO Imagination Center, a 5,000-sq.-ft. room of giant LEGO models. Sorry, kids, you can't build this stuff at home...
Some describe the Sackler Museum, down Quincy Street from the Carpenter Center, as a glorified Lego set. Its stripes were originally supposed to be pink and green to match the roof tiles of nearby Memorial Hall. But since pink and green bricks weren't structurally sound enough, the University had to settle on its second choices, orange and gray. Harvard planned to build a footbridge across Broadway, connecting the Sackler and the Fogg. But Cambridge residents Protested, saying the bridge would divide the city...