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Pope John let the Curia have its way. To Boston's Richard Cardinal Cushing, he explained: "Sono net sacco qui"?"I'm in a bag here." But when the council fathers arrived in Rome, they began getting discreet telephone calls from Monsignor Loris Capovilla, the Pope's private secretary...
Died. Major General John Hamilton Roberts, 70, Canadian commander of the controversial 1942 raid on the German-held resort town of Dieppe; of a heart attack on the Channel Island of Jersey. Planned as a "reconnaissance in force," the raid was a tactical disaster (only 2,500 returned out of...
Time for Normality. Roberts freely admits that he owes a big debt to Long, who stoutly refused, even after Ampex came upon hard times, to make any major cuts in the company's research budget. Says Roberts: "The previous management could have made itself look reasonably good by eliminating...
To accomplish Ampex's turnaround, Bill Roberts has had to neglect his low-90s golf game and better-than-average tennis, and sacrifice virtually all semblance of family life. But now, says he, "it's nearing the point where I'm beginning to be satisfied and lead...
More frontier adventure is packed into the corporate history of the Hudson's Bay Co. than into all of Kenneth Roberts' novels. In the course of its 292 years existence, "the Bay" has fought shooting wars with the French over fur trapping in Eastern Canada, and tussled with...