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...center was located across from the University of Colorado in an old Chi Omega sorority house. I talked with a young man from Austria named Lorenz Würrer. He said that he belonged to a youth movement and asked me if I'd like to come to a weekend retreat to learn more about it. I really liked the atmosphere in the place. Little did I know that my mind had begun a journey from which it might never return...
...There were people in Switzerland who thought one could never do away with the hands on a watch," admits Georges-Adrien Matthey, director general of Société Suisse pour l'Industrie Horlogère S.A. (S.S.I.H.), which makes Omega and Tissot watches. Result: of the more than 4 million digital watches produced in the world last year, fewer than 500,000 were made in Switzerland...
...conglomerates grew so rapidly as Ling-Temco-Vought, Inc. in the late 1960s, and few have come apart so spectacularly in the 1970s. Today the company is no longer a high flyer, and Founder James J. Ling, having created and failed with another conglomerate, Omega-Alpha, is fighting stockholder fraud suits. But thanks to Ling's penchant for corporate spinoffs, parts of the old LTV have emerged to flourish as independent companies. The one with the most exotic projects is Dallas-based E-Systems Inc., a company with a meaningless name, an ultrasophisticated product line and operations that extend...
Soviet Party Leader Leonid Brezhnev is a past master of give and take, Russian style. At one point during the most recent Strategic Arms Limitation Talks in Moscow, Brezhnev took a fancy to the expensive gold Omega wristwatch worn by State Department Counsellor Helmut Sonnenfeldt. Brezhnev asked for it, offering in exchange a cheap Russian pocket watch...
...Eastern Sprints, the alpha and omega of the rowing season, is upon us, and while most everyone will agree that coming in first is the only thing that counts. God bless Vince Lombardi, each individual oarsmen does have a special attitude toward the Granddaddy of them...