Word: spokesman
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Hollywood needs a regeneration, and the role of spokesman that I singularly failed at is still available to someone -- someone smarter than me, someone American, a person who can articulate on behalf of the greater film community the frustration and the need for change...
...exit of Control Data could aggravate U.S.-Japan trade friction over supercomputers. Says Etsuro Yamada, a spokesman for Fujitsu: "The fact is that Control Data lost in a fight with Cray, but that may not be the way the Americans will look at it." The U.S. has long complained about the Japanese government's failure to buy U.S.-made supercomputers. The two countries signed a 1987 accord in which Tokyo agreed to eliminate discrimination against U.S. supercomputer makers in the purchasing procedures of Japanese government agencies and universities. But since then, Tokyo has failed to buy a single U.S. supercomputer...
...political division of the Free Congress Research and Education Foundation, says that if Democrats can shift the image of their party toward the center on economic and defense matters and then add the abortion issue, "they have the possibility of fracturing the Republican coalition." Says Democratic National Committee spokesman Mike McCurry: "We're thinking ahead. Are we in a position where we can plan ahead? I don't think...
Marriott has little interest in Howard Johnson's traditions. It prefers its own traditions, as exemplified by the name of co-founder Alice Marriott. Last June it began giving Bob's Big Boys in San Diego the new name of Allie's. "The intention, long term," says a company spokesman, "is to convert all Bob's Big Boys and Howard Johnson's to Allie's." While this was going on, however, some of the old-timers who had obtained their Howard Johnson's franchises from old Howard Johnson himself were fretting about being sold from conglomerate to conglomerate. So they...
...actually bought stock in the new company. FAI now includes 137 individually owned Howard Johnson's restaurants in 26 states, a far cry from the 1,040 of yesteryear, but still . . . And although they don't all have all 28 flavors of Howard Johnson's ice cream, an FAI spokesman admits, they all have at least 18. Which indicates that if we can't preserve all the riches of the past in this forgetful and conglomerate age, we can, with a certain determination and a certain effort, preserve at least some of them. Burma- Shave...