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...weight of no more than 3 Ibs. and with frail, immature lungs, it would surely have developed life-threatening respiratory problems. But Rosanne and her baby were lucky. Given ritodrine, an experimental medication, Rosanne ceased her labor and gave birth six weeks later to a healthy, 6-lb. 4-oz. daughter...
BORN. To Phyllis George Brown, 30, former Miss America and TV personality, and Kentucky Governor John Y. Brown, 46, former Kentucky Fried Chicken king: an 8-Ib. 4-oz. son, her first child, his fourth; in Lexington, Ky. The parents, expecting a girl, had selected the name Pamela Louise, then settled on Lincoln...
Borg bought gold at $200 per oz. a few years ago and sold it at $600. He owns a home on the French Riviera and part of an island off Sweden. He has diamond interests, a wide range of bonds and other securities, apartment and office buildings in the U.S., a tennis shop in Monte Carlo managed by bis parents. He is also looking for a home in Florida, where he feels he may some day want to retire...
...violate the law but also to avoid punishment. For example, as head of the planning section of a factory in the northeast city of Shenyang, Guan Qingchong, the gold thief mentioned in the People's Daily, was able some 19 years ago to make off with 806 oz. of industrial gold. Ever since then, he had got steady promotions, while two provincial leaders had been hounded to suicide after being falsely accused of the crime. Guan's undoing came only last April, when, trying to profit from an increase in the state purchase price of private gold...
Osborn Elliott became editor of Newsweek in 1961 and set about transforming what was then a pallid copy of TIME into a feisty, prosperous competitor. "Oz" Elliott, now 55 and dean of Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, tells how he did it and how much fun he had along the way. He rose above his humble beginnings (St. Paul's, Harvard, old money and a family friend, Builder-Bureaucrat Robert Moses, who got him a first job on the New York Journal of Commerce) to become business editor at Newsweek in 1955. He and Colleague...