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...build the company, Jobs adroitly tapped the network of support services that has made Silicon Valley such a fertile place for fledgling businesses. Says he: "We didn't know what the hell we were doing, but we were very careful observers and learned quickly." Jobs pestered Regis McKenna, the area's premier public relations specialist, to take on Apple as a client. After refusing twice, McKenna finally agreed. For advice on how to raise money, Jobs consulted both McKenna and Nolan Bushnell, his former boss at Atari. They suggested that he call Don Valentine, an investor who frequently...
...kennet or haven't I told you, every telling has a taling and that's the he and the she of it." That phrase might serve as an epigram for all taped literature. Caedmon presents Joyce, along with readers E.G. Marshall, Siobhan McKenna and Cyril Cusack in its James Joyce Soundbook, a boxed, four-cassette package ($29.95) with Pomes Penyeach and excerpts from A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, among others. Other Soundbooks offer Dylan Thomas and J.R.R. Tolkien in resonant audio versions...
...director of the Bunting Institute, Margaret McKenna met Sadat while a deputy counsel to former president Jimmy Carter...
...then got married and, as Thomas and Marjorie Melville, wrote a book called Guatemala: The Politics of Land Ownership. The incident is still well remembered in Central America. Rightly or wrongly, the Maryknollers have acquired such a name for activism that when a gun-toting Irish priest named Donald McKenna joined the current group of leftist guerrillas in Guatemala, some reporters automatically referred to him as a Maryknoll Father, which he was not. The American consul general in El Salvador, Patricia Lasbury, received death threats as a former Maryknoll nun. She once was a nun, but in another order...
...close call. Last week one of the seven strikers, Sean McKenna, 26, sentenced to 25 years for terrorist offenses including the attempted murders of a policeman and a Protestant civilian, was reported to be going blind from lack of food. He was described as comatose and close to death; a visiting relative said he looked like a "yellow skeleton." Amid warnings that McKenna had only 24 hours to live, prison authorities brought in a priest to give him the last rites of the Roman Catholic Church. After the strike was called off, the fear remained that he might still...