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...steady rise of the Soviet military Establishment over the past decade has enhanced Ustinov's power, it may ultimately keep him from becoming party leader. Ustinov does not currently have a foothold in the Secretariat. Indeed, the aging defense planner may be too closely linked to the military for the comfort of many party bureaucrats. Says Daniel Papp of the Georgia Institute of Technology: "Some people will oppose Ustinov for precisely the same reason that others will support him, because of his strong identification with the military-industrial complex of the Soviet Union...
Observers from Los Angeles, where protection will be the major worry at the Summer Games, include Mayor Tom Bradley, Police Chief Daryl Gates and Police Olympic Planner William Rathburn. Their problems will be larger, but it may have helped to see the queues backed up at metal detectors, delaying crowds of spectators for hockey games...
Such rival publications as BusinessWeek and London's Financial Times are publishing their own versions, both to boost their visibility and to log sizable profits. BusinessWeek fills its Executive Desk Planner with features like a collection of management tips. FORTUNE, whose diary includes a calorie counter, a listing of the largest U.S. industrial corporations and silver-edged pages, mails a free copy of the book to the chief executive of each company on the FORTUNE 500 list...
When calendars go even further, they become systems. The Time/Design planner, for example, attempts to sort all the scattered details of an executive's life into neat compartments. The book contains more than two dozen forms for listing activities, to which the user assigns priorities by marking items with special symbols. A Santa Monica, Calif., firm called Insight Transformational Seminars sells the book for $300. The price includes a three-day seminar on how to use it. For $120, customers get a 30-page instruction book instead of the seminar...
...desire, as one Yale planner says, "to preserve the integity of The Game and yet increase it" was similarly the impetus for the oversized game ticket, also designed by Garland...