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...fiery ex-Marine and an avid mountain climber, Hugh McColl Jr. has scaled the Swiss Alps and Tanzania's Mount Kilimanjaro. But his loftiest goal is to lead NationsBank, the Charlotte, N.C., company he has run since 1983, to the summit of American banking. Through more than 50 acquisitions, McColl has turned NationsBank into the third largest U.S. lender (behind Chase Manhattan and Citicorp), with branches in 16 states and $316 billion in assets. And NationsBank stock, which has swelled to $65 billion in total value, makes the bank No. 1 in market capital. "In most of life's endeavors...
...Even the loftiest highflyers have been losing altitude fast. Shares of Netscape, maker of the Navigator Web browser, which opened at $14 last August (after adjusting for a two-for-one split) and peaked in December at $87, closed last week at $48.50. Yahoo!, a vaunted search-engine-software company, jumped from $13 per share to $32.25 when it began trading in April and soon hit a high of $43. Last Friday, however, Yahoo! was searching for the bottom, at $17.50. "The IPOs that came with the most sizzle, like the Internet search engines, have gone on a roller-coaster...
...Leary had agreed to do an issue from his San Diego prison cell. I guess we expected some kind of bleak, jailhouse blues--but no: Doc writes to inform us that the theme for his issue will be "Communication with Higher Intelligence"--an ambitious aim even from atop the loftiest ivory tower. But from behind bars...
...With his shirt unbuttoned theater most of the performance, he struts his manliness and often gets into a battle of the bulge with Rittenhouse (Hans Canosa). Canosa is also the director of the production, and casting himself in this role is a suspicious move, since Rittenhouse is the loftiest of characters in terms of intellect and smugness. Canosa appears comfortable, almost too comfortable, punctuating sentences with a cigar that is never lit but just licked at the end for effect. His character is enigmatic but haughty and egocentric...
...want to be a member of a national championship team--that's by far my loftiest goal, and it's something I think we can achieve," he says...