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...best future asset is the forthcoming liaison with France's rich dowager, Renault, which will eventually own 22.5% of American Motors stock. Renault's mini Le Car is selling well in AMC showrooms and drawing customers to some of American Motors' own models. Automakers will survive in the future, says Meyers, if they sharply focus their markets and hook up with international partners. Those that do not, he adds, "will be wiped out as thoroughly as Custer's 7th Cavalry...
...this end, ABC is betting on an ambitiously sleazy collection of made-for-TV movies. Leading the pack is a six-hour miniseries, The French Atlantic Affair, which will have to face such competition as A Bridge Too Far (NBC) and Silver Streak (CBS). ABC just may win. Its mini-series aims so low that it does not even qualify as popcorn entertainment; the show is best watched while chewing sugarless...
...rationale for such rules is discipline. "Since the appointment represents a full four-year scholarship and attracts everyone from the poor to the well-to-do--the first thing we try to do is level all that out and make the class into a mini-democracy," Monteverde says. "We also teach them to sacrifice themselves for the greater good. That's one of the hallmarks of military theory...
...these mini-computers, many of which are as small as an office electric typewriter with a small TV screen on top, can also play games. One company at the show sold "software" packages--computer programs--for tarot cards, "Pirate Adventure," "Magic Isle," and the classic "Star Trek...
...patios and mini-parks, the three blocks encompass the most extensive urban planting of trees, shrubs, vines and ground covers of any North American city: more than 50,000 indigenous maples, dogwoods, pines, brooms, junipers, sword ferns, rhododendrons, yews and creeping roses. In some green areas, traffic cannot be seen-or heard over the splashing of waterfalls. To some, the sloping, low-rise structure resembles an Inca temple reflecting the spectacular beauty of the Pacific rim on which it sits...