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...only discernible change in Hwang's life-style has been to move into a new home in Los Altos that was modeled after a Welsh castle. It has a sauna and Jacuzzi in the master bedroom and an elaborate security system. Hwang still works a six-day week. Says he: "My executives call me a slave driver. But I tell them to look at Osborne, and they don't say anything." Adam Osborne headed a fast-growing personal-computer firm that announced plans to go public last winter but ended up filing for bankruptcy in September...
poor, the young and the thrifty. In 1947 a cost-conscious traveler could take a six-day trip from Chicago to Washington on a Greyhound bus, spend five nights in a hotel, make sightseeing trips to attractions like Mount Vernon, and spend only...
...their six-day, six-nation tour of the isthmus, that was just the question the twelve commission members were pondering. Appointed by President Reagan in July, the group was charged with arriving at a long-term policy capable of winning broad domestic support. The trip, Kissinger explained before his departure from Washington, would give the commission a basis for its recommendations. "What you get out of it is the flavor of a country," he said, "a judgment of the personalities, an opportunity to ask questions that have been bothering...
...quick six-day tour of the province, for an oldtimer, is a delight. The small towns throb again, their booths full of sweets, cookies, housewares, clothes, textiles, flower pots and flowers. In big cities like Chengdu and Chongqing, the huge food markets overwhelm the eye with food that can be bought without coupons. Hogs come squealing to market in wheelbarrows, on tractors, even lashed to the backs of bicycles, then reappear in the markets as huge slabs of pink-and-white pork. Peasants bring in their wives' squawking chickens, eight to a basket. Down the market lanes peasants sell geese...
...runway 22. In the glare of blue xenon searchlights, Navy Captain Richard Truly, the mission commander, flawlessly guided the orbiter, nose up, to its first nighttime landing. Challenger's arrival at Edwards Air Force Base last week, at 12:40 a.m. California time, ended a six-day flight that drew raves from NASA officials. Crowed the shuttle's boss, Lieut. General James Abrahamson: "That was a fabulous mission. We think it was the cleanest mission...