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...recent trip to Japan, American Businessman Bruce Neff unwittingly broke a key cultural rule. The Data General manager abruptly chopped an order he had placed with a Japanese firm by one-third. "It was an ordinary procedure that in the U.S. would have taken 15 minutes," he recalled. But the Japanese were shocked and threatened by the unexpected cutback, and launched into negotiations with Neff that dragged on for three days...
Indeed, the precise threat of lung cancer, which takes from 13 to 50 years to manifest itself, is poorly understood. Says Stan Neff, 53, who has worked at Asarco for 18 years: "I've lived around here all my life and I'm not concerned about any health hazards. It's a lot better than it was 50 years ago." But Darcy Wright, a Tacoma homemaker who lives a mile from the smelter, worries about raising her four-month-old son. Says she: "Somehow I'm going to have to provide him with a protected area...
Talking to a group of guidance counselors in Phoenix, A.C.M. President Charles Neff set out to dispel some myths about his region. The Midwest is not dull. It is not flat. "We do have woods and lakes and rolling hills," he said. His jocularity did not mask his mission. Said one of the counselors: "Any time someone serves you Bloody Marys and screwdrivers at noon, you know they're serious." Neff anticipated questions with a barrage of statistics: 58% of A.C.M.'s graduates find full-time employment within a year after graduation, 25% are enrolled in graduate...
...around the bookmobile, used to have a fine depot. It used to have a high school, a tavern, a cattle market, a drugstore and soda fountain. It used to have a hardware store, its own doctor, even a dentist. It used to have a barber shop, a newspaper. Marvin Neff, 74, and his wife Lucy, 70, treasure some old sepia postcards that prove Claypool even had a handsome elevated bandstand, center block on Main Street, where brass-band concerts were given every Saturday night. Another card shows an attractive little commercial hotel. "The Shipley Hotel was right there," Neff says...
...national prizes for editorial and photographic excellence are presented in April, May and June. At the midpoint of this awards season, TIME has already captured a wallful of major honors. Last week the prestigious Overseas Press Club of America added three more. Correspondents Walter Isaacson and Donald Neff were given the O.P.C.'s Mary Hemingway Award for best magazine reporting from abroad, for their work on last year's cover story "The Colombian Connection: Billions in Pot and Coke." Neff interviewed drug enforcement officials in New York, Miami and Bogotá, and surveyed by small plane the clandestine airstrips and marijuana...