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...rich library of software. Among the supplements it cannot accommodate are such market favorites as the bestselling business program Lotus 1-2-3. "When a consumer walks in the door, he is under the impression that the PCjr will run most of the IBM software," says Leon Wilson, general manager of Chicago's Computer World stores. "That impression is incorrect...
...trouble begins at a Philadelphia construction site when a young bricklayer and speed freak named Leon Hubbard waves a straight razor under a co-worker's chin. The would-be victim, Lucien Edwards Jr., 69, is black, dignified and not to be trifled with: he bashes a metal pipe into the back of Leon's head. The foreman, Coleman Peets, sees this fatal act as providential. He has been worrying for days about how to get rid of the punk without killing him himself. The police arrive and accept with little reluctance Peets' description of an accidental...
...exceptions are Leon's mother and Novelist Pete Dexter, 40, who in God's Pocket (Random House; 274 pages; $14.95) turns a random incident into a picaresque romp. Jeanie Hubbard Scarpato, still pretty in middle age despite a life that has "had more sorry chapters than the Old Testament," refuses to believe that the son she raised on her own from infancy after her first husband's death would simply let something fall on his head. Mickey, her current spouse, cannot disagree; he feels unworthy of Jeanie, probably with cause. He drives a refrigerated truck and sells...
...Sullivan principles, formulated in 1972 by the Rev. Leon Sullivan, a member of the Board of Directors at General Motors, are a minimum set of ethical standards for companies operating in South Africa...
...Cesaire grew up with the French prose classics and the poetry of Victor Hugo. His family had middle-class aspirations and so emphasized the value of French culture that Creole never became a viable means of expression for Cesaire. Sent to study in Paris at age 18, he met Leon Damas and Leopold Senghor and began to formulate his theory of negritude...