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...PALE RIDER...
While IBM's problems may pale beside those of Apple, its own drop in profits was sobering news. IBM (1984 sales: $45.9 billion) accounts for some 40% of all U.S. computer sales and 70% of the industry's profits. Just seven weeks ago, during the company's annual meeting, Chairman John Akers confidently predicted "solid growth" for this year...
...stories provided by new witnesses in Brazil. In her attractive white house in the affluent hillside community of Petropolis Park, outside Sao Paulo, a nervous Gitta Stammer, who had earlier come forward to support and supplement the Bossert account, told her story to TIME's Jacqueline Reditt. Her face pale and worried, her hands trembling, the slight, 65-year-old Hungarian-born woman described how she and her family had kept a longtime lodger's secret for 22 anxious years...
General Motors Chairman Roger Bonham Smith, who turns 60 next month, does not look as if he would shake apples from a tree, let alone the entire trunk and limb structure of the world's largest automaker. He is moderate in build (5 ft. 9 in.) and pale of mien. He used to speak in a squeaky voice when excited, but he conquered it by forcing himself to take short breaths in midsentence. Smith can walk the floors of auto shows unrecognized, while customers and dealers flock to see his better-known rival, Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca...
...real terror of the Everglades is Australia's Melaleuca quinquenervia, also known as cajeput, punk tree and paperbark tree. A close cousin of the eucalyptus, with shaggy bark and pale yellow flowers, it was introduced to Florida in 1906 by Forester John Gifford of the Department of Agriculture, who thought it might attract commercial woodcutters. Unfortunately, its / hardwood interior, hidden by a thick soft bark, is runny with water and difficult to saw. Moreover, the Melaleuca sucks up three times as much water as other swamp trees, thus drying out the land, and its leaves are filled with eucalyptol...