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...survive him. He became chairman of Woolworth in 1978, and is generally credited with having brought fresh ideas to the 103-year-old company and having recruited and promoted imaginative managers. Among the standouts were Anderson and Allbright, both protégés of Gibbons, who helped him steer the variety store chain into new types of retailing. Their approach was often more aggressive than that of veterans of traditional five-and-dime Woolworth's business...
...officials speculate that the Soviets might be able to destroy the reactor with a remaining explosive charge, or even a burst from one of their killer satellites, a risky procedure that would leave a sinking radioactive cloud in orbit. Or they might have enough maneuvering fuel left to steer the lethal package into the sea. At week's end the fate of Cosmos 1402, as well as of the people in its path, was still very much...
Peter Weir, the first Australian director to make an international name for himself, has chosen to steer a course that is at once more cautious and more daring. He has taken MGM/UA's largesse to mount a more elaborate version of the theme that solders his five earlier films: the collision between British culture and anarchic nature, a conflict that virtually defines the Australian experience. The scene is Indonesia in 1965, as the Sukarno government stumbles toward a coup that will eventually end the strongman's reign. In the streets, Communist marchers sing revolutionary songs with Whiffenpoof harmonies...
...guerrillas appeared almost nightly at Hackett's mission hospital in Makumbi, and, he says, "we never turned anyone away who needed help." One guerrilla was saved when hospital workers disguised him as a pregnant woman. Unlike many of their Latin American colleagues, foreign missionaries in Africa today generally steer clear of politics. The reason: even vague criticism of sensitive black regimes can result in deportation within 24 hours...
...kneeing, punching and gouging as they struggle for control of the wheel. Most movies, as everyone knows, end up in the ravine, bottoms up among the broken and rusting remnants of last year's improbable dreams. A few-sensibly designed or well-balanced or inherently powerful- seem to steer themselves into the theaters, oblivious to the uproar that attended their journey...