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Though big-name autobiographies have always been reasonably popular, the boom in megabuck success stories--political, financial, sporting and otherwise--started with Bantam's astonishing sales of Iacocca, more than 2 million copies in hardcover and still the No. 2 nonfiction best seller after eight months as No. 1. Indeed, the only hardcover that is selling better is another autobiographical success story from Bantam, Yeager, by Chuck Yeager and Leo Janos...
...award. Texaco has vowed to fight his decision if it does not get a favorable judgment, and the case could eventually go to the Supreme Court. Whatever the outcome, last week's ruling is likely to make companies and corporate raiders more cautious about the tactics used in megabuck merger negotiations. --By Gordon M. Henry. Reported by Dean Brelis/New York and Gary Taylor/Houston
...uproar over the guy who left his intended bride in the lurch [ESSAY, Dec. 8], we must note that this nonevent was not an ordinary wedding. It was a megabuck marriage right up there with a corporate takeover. Perhaps the wayward groom decided that the cost of trading in his Porsche for a Ferrari was too high. Hardly anything to concern the masses. If the jilted wealthy bride really wants to get married, she can run an HEIRESS SEEKS HUSBAND ad, or tour Europe interviewing studs. When she finds the right man, she can mold him into her very...
...adventures, he was also busy with Berlin, Cuba, Vietnam, nuclear disarmament, the moon shot, racial upheavals and the American economy. Hersh and his fraternity of investigative reporters have served this nation well. But there is a dark side even in their business, particularly in our age of star-driven, megabuck contracts in books and television...
With its Green Monster, quirky outfield, antiquated left-field scoreboard and famous bleacher seats, Fenway is perhaps more baseball than baseball itself--possessing an aura of authenticity shaming modern megabuck parks like Toronto's SkyDome and Baltimore's pseudo baseball-ish Camden Yards...