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Whatever his virtues as U.N. Ambassador, the former Georgia Congressman has displayed an almost arrogant carelessness in his statements-so much so that State Department officials have tagged him "Motor Mouth." Young, 45, had barely been sworn in when he said that Fidel Castro's Cuban mercenaries "bring a certain stability to Angola." That was only a warmup. There were bloopers about sending U.S. troops to Rhodesia, about Britain having almost "invented racism," about Arab attitudes toward Israelis being akin to Ku Klux Klan attitudes toward blacks. Soon the State Department found itself working almost full time to clarify...
...shops and restaurants have opened their doors, since the 350,-000-sq.-ft., tri-level mall housing most of them is still under construction. Ren Cen's four 39-story, octagonal office towers are finished, but only 68% of this is rented-much of that because Ford Motor Co. leased a whole tower for 1,700 employees (many of whom would have preferred to stay in Dearborn, eleven miles from the city center...
...same, Ren Cen is a prodigious accomplishment. Henry Ford is a man of considerable force, and when he talked about business showing a commitment to the salvation of downtown Detroit, other people listened. First he set up the Detroit Downtown Development Corp. as a subsidiary of Ford Motor and assigned top real estate and financial people to staff it. Next he discussed the project with his competitor, Richard C. Gerstenberg, then chairman of General Motors, over lunch at the GM building; by dessert, Gerstenberg had pledged his active support. Four months later, GM announced that it would invest $6 million...
...were very compleat anglers. We were compleat with a $300,000, 46-ft. Heli-Home, which consists in effect of an S-58 Sikorsky helicopter mated to a Winnebago motor home. The ultimate in Arvees (recreational vehicles), it is a cross between a magic carpet and a pasha...
...marketed by the Itasca division of Winnebago Industries, Inc., the Forest City, Iowa, motor-home makers...