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...absurdly named Ministry of Clams, a sort of dead-letter office for all insoluble problems, whose minister believes that attempting to solve them would be "a mockery of the human condition." Blond-haired people, regarded as inferior, are downtrodden. Under Saint Sebastian's Enlightenment, the schools offer a nonstop curriculum of American B movies of the 1930s and '40s, with nuns serving as ushers and priests cranking the projectors...
Mobil's decision came as no surprise to Wall Street. Montgomery Ward has been almost nonstop trouble since the oil company paid $1.7 billion for it in 1974. Since then, Mobil has pumped an additional $609 million into the company in an attempt to make it profitable, but Montgomery Ward has lost a total of $415 million under Mobil's rule...
...discipline. "You have to move properly, speak only when spoken to. But houses are claustrophobic. On a boat the sky is part of our living space, like a tree house." To a landbound observer, a boat is like the center seat of an L-1011 on a nonstop flight to Singapore, on which one has to unpack and repack for every meal. But the observer misses the point: the life is different, and the people are, therefore, special. Joe Pluhar, who until a few weeks ago was the owner of the marina with his wife Bobbi, says, "The people made...
Iacocca talks nonstop, like the salesman he is. If not for the humor and the regular flashes of common sense, his declamations would be rants. When Iacocca gets going, which is usual, he pauses only when he runs out of breath. He is in such a rush to say so many things that he cannot always be bothered to find the mot juste: if guys is his trademark noun, helluva is Iacocca's favorite modifier...
...along with TIME'S Teresa Barker, has been almost as closely tethered to the Humana press center as the patient is to the machinery that powers his artificial heart. During her long reporting vigil, she has found herself frequently checking her own vital signs. "After six days of nonstop reporting," says she, "most of the journalists covering the implant were ready for intensive care. Any physician walking into the press center would have prescribed immediate bed rest...