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...thirty-second standard had been originally intended as a reform. It superseded the state courts' long standing practice of defining a black as someone with "any traceable amount" of "colored" ancestry. The one thirty-second provision automatically made thousands of fractionally black Louisianians legally white. Aside from the plain repugnance of any such law, blacks in particular objected to the implication that to be white is preferable...
...price increases have helped spur the biggest new hit in the cigarette industry: generics. Sold in plain black-and-white or black-and-yellow packages, the no-name cigarettes have captured about 2.5% of the market in the past two years. Liggett, looking for a way to reverse its steadily declining share, was the first major company to start selling the generics. Paced by its bestselling Chesterfield, Liggett had about 25% of sales in the 1940s, but that fell to less than 3% by 1981. Says President K.v.R. Dey Jr.: "We were the smallest kid on the block." The company...
...businesses in Arizona and California river settlements were flooded, and vital tourist business was badly crimped. "This is a man-made disaster, and there's no excuse for it," says Sandy Fields, owner of the Castle Rock Shores Resort in hard-hit Parker, Ariz. "It's just plain stupidity...
Compared with the Thomas Watsons, father and son, Opel appears almost bland. "Plain vanilla," says one member of the IBM board, "but good plain vanilla." Says a middle-level executive: "With Tom Watson, you knew stories about him. With Opel, there are no vibes. You just know, in a business sense, exactly what his goals and objectives...
...dimple, and out of his mouth comes the laugh that sounds like a happy goose crossed with a stopped-up vacuum cleaner, and the audience cracks up. Very bad Eddie, very good Eddie, his fans love them both. More than any other entertainer in recent memory, Eddie Murphy just plain makes people feel good...