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...feuds and a sensational international bribery scandal. When Wallace W. Booth was first offered the chief executive's job at United Brands Co. two months ago, he promptly declined. Booth did not feel that his experience suited him for running a food company. During 20 years with Ford Motor Co., he played a major role in setting up the company's financial control system, became a director and eventually headed Ford's Australian subsidiary. In 1968 Booth joined the Rockwell International Corp., a Pittsburgh-based company that manufactures such durable goods as missiles and other space vehicles...
...before they are ready. Figuring that preemies miss the security of the womb, Dr. Louis Gluck of San Diego's University Hospital has designed a tiny, heated water bed to simulate the warmth and buoyant pulsations of the baby's uterine environment. He also attached a tiny motor that provides motion similar to what the fetus experienced when the mother's heart beat and as she walked about. The preemie's sense of security is further heightened by the recorded sound of a pregnant mother's heartbeat piped into the artificial womb. Gluck hopes that...
...found who does not expect an upturn some time this year, and most are looking for it sooner rather than later. "I think honestly that it's going to turn around in this quarter," says Joseph B. Lanterman, chairman of Amsted Industries. Says Lee lacocca, president of Ford Motor Co.: "The worst is behind us." Richard Everett, chief domestic economist of the Chase Manhattan Bank, proclaims himself "confident that the recession will be ended by summer...
With 1974 world champion John Everett at number four, the MIT machine has outslugged crews from Columbia, Yale, Northeastern and Boston University in the past three weeks. The Engineers' strategy is simple and effective: roar out of the start, and motor past all contenders in the first minute or two of each race...
...silence to the Essex Delicatessen or a similar all-night restaurant where they know all the "regulars" and where Joe orders a bagel and tea, Louis coffee and an English. Then they make their way down Atlantic Ave, to the wharf where Louis' boat, the Salvatore, is moored, and motor out past the airport in the sunrise...