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...Silicon Valley maker of telecommunications equipment. The button-down computer giant has since left its freewheeling subsidiary largely alone. "We didn't come here to fill up the swimming pool with gravel," an IBM official assured Rolm employees, who have happily retained their corporate hot tubs, saunas and water-polo team. General Motors has vowed to pursue a similar strategy with Hughes Aircraft, which the automaker acquired in June for about $5 billion. GM said it bought Hughes for its technical know-how, and will refrain from meddling in the California company's business...
...already taken them to Australia and, on a brief stopover, to Hawaii, where the Prince went bodysurfing and the Princess received a brilliantly colorful lei ("Oh, how sweet they smell," she said). After Washington, they were set to jet down to Palm Beach, Fla., for a brisk game of polo and a glittering charity ball for the United World College of the American West...
...royal couple was planned for the National Gallery, where guests included various Washington luminaries, such as Treasury Secretary James Baker, and a coterie of well-heeled benefactors of the gallery. Charles and Diana were to depart the next morning for Palm Beach to go directly to the Palm Beach Polo and Country Club. Charles, who has brought along his own equipment for his favorite sport, will engage in a friendly match. Plans for the pregame festivities, rife with quirky Americana, included appearances by Disney World's Minnie and Mickey Mouse, a kind of cartoon royal couple...
...banquet, President Reagan introduced her first as "Princess David," then "Princess Diane." For his part, Charles spoke briefly and sat down, forgetting for a second to give his toast. In Palm Beach, Fla., on the last leg of the Waleses' four-day visit, Charles' team stylishly won an exhibition polo match, but later at a $5,000-a-head charity ball for United World Colleges arranged by Oil Tycoon Armand Hammer, there were some tacky touches. Those who paid an extra $20,000 got to stand with the royal couple for a souvenir snapshot. The local Establishment snubbed...
...Number of people HSBC bank notified last week that their credit-card data may have been stolen after shopping with a MasterCard at Polo Ralph Lauren