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...however, that money did not stand in Arguedas' way after all. Last week, less than a month after Fidel Castro had gleefully published the diary in Havana, an investigation by the Bolivian army charged that the No. 2 man in Bolivia's government had simply borrowed President René Barrientos' copy and was responsible for its "indiscreet handling...
With new scoring systems, new synthetic playing surfaces and competition between amateurs and pros, tennis seems to have entered a long-overdue era of change. Last year even the tennis racket itself took on a new look with the T2000 steel racket, designed by France's René ("the Crocodile") Lacoste and marketed in the U.S. by the Wilson Sporting Goods...
...surrealists agreed that the time had come to substitute the logic of the unconscious for the deliberate illogic of Dada, but only half of the movement, including Dali, René Magritte and Yves Tanguy, used conventional Renaissance oil techniques and perspective to portray the fantasy world of dreams and hallucination. Helped by Dali's genius for self-publicity, it was this half of the movement that became synonymous with surrealism...
Businessmen are always talking about ways to end that chronic corporate ailment, the time-wasting conference. Now Danish Engineer Søren T. Lyngsø 46, head of a Copenhagen-based industrial instrument firm, has come forward with a conference-room conversation stopper: a sort of electronic tote board that reminds company staffers that talk is far from cheap...
...tinkerer who started out in a small basement shop 16 years ago, Lyngsø credits the gadget with cutting down the proliferation of meetings that have come with the growth of his own firm, Søren T. Lyngsø, Dansk Servo Teknik, to two plants and 160 employees. He finds that the machine starts saving money even before conferences start: nowadays his managers whenever possible skip calling meetings rather than watch the machine add up the cost...