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...look back. Something might be gaining on you." That old admonition from Baseball Great Satchel Paige is taking on special meaning these days for IBM. Beset by rivals and mired in an industry-wide slump, Big Blue in 1986 has had a year it would rather forget. Even as the firm proudly announced its new line of System 9370 business computers last week, there was speculation on Wall Street that its net income may be down again this year. Profits had already dipped .4% in 1985, to $6.6 billion. The nervousness pushed IBM stock down from 133?...
...spending their time looking around at whom they might take over or who may try to take them over. In a less frenetic period, RCA might not have been so eager to find a merger partner. The motto of these executives could be borrowed from the legendary baseball pitcher Satchel Paige: "Don't look back. Something might be gaining...
...helicopter cabin, Lieut. Frank Powell, chief of Philadelphia's bomb- disposal unit, hefted a canvas satchel holding two 1-lb. tubes filled with a water-based gel explosive. After lighting its 45-sec. fuse, Powell leaned out of the helicopter bay and dropped the device on the roof. His target: a fortified, bunker-like cubicle about 6 ft. square and 8 ft. high...
Goode was watching the siege on television in his city hall office when the helicopter swooped over the Move house and dropped the explosive satchel. Two floors above Goode, Councilman Lucien Blackwell also saw television footage of the bomb. Recounts Blackwell: "We watched as it dropped. We watched and watched, and the flames were getting larger and larger." Alarmed at seeing no effort to extinguish the fire, Blackwell called the mayor, who told him firemen were being held off out of fear they would be shot at by Move members. Fire Commissioner William Richmond at first accepted responsibility for holding...
...California, with its enticing of 306 delegates, but early exit polls indicated a tight race. Arriving at a party in St. Paul's Radisson Plaza Mondale reached out to his rivals and their backers. "I want your support," he said, "and I intend to earn it." After delivering a Satchel Paige warning to Ronald Reagan, "Don't look back, somebody's gaining on you," the contented Mondale ordered a batch of cheeseburgers, celebrated with friends in his 17th-floor suite and drifted off into a long-awaited deep sleep at midnight...