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...cartridge to fire a paint-filled gelatin ball about the size of a child's marble-.68 cal., someone estimated. The Nelson Paint Co. of Iron Mountain, Mich., developed the pistol to give stockmen and foresters a tool for marking cattle or trees from a distance. Shoot a steer on the flank with a Nel-Spot, and you color-coat him with a splotch of red or blue or yellow the size of a fried egg. easily recognizable at shipping time...
...associate, "and then doesn't leave them till they're settled." But his greatest strength, says another, is that "he knows when to use clout and when to listen." For instance, when talking to Menachem Begin, who tends to obscure issues with lengthy digressions, Habib will tenaciously steer the conversation back to the central topic. "He doesn't take opening positions too seriously but as a point of departure from which to make some progress," says William Quandt, former chief Middle East expert of the National Security Council. "He realizes that diplomacy...
...from Dynasty, Genie Francis, 20, late of General Hospital, and Donna Mills from Knots Landing. Francis plays a gung-ho executive who goes to work for a large, shaky corporation. She saves the situation by teaming up with the race-car-driving, playboy heir to the company to steer the organization into the fragrance business and a perfume that is Bare Essence. The show is obviously musk viewing for the heads of any financially troubled corporations...
...minister know that before they go to college," Klingensmith says, and "frequently, and unfortunately, religious young people are not critically minded. They're not concerned with studying things properly and being introduced to challenging ways of looking at things that could impair their own religion." And so, they steer clear of Cambridge...
Swearer is both modest and cautious about Brown's success so far: "You have to give credit to a large number of people." But his chief financial aide, Senior Vice President Richard Ramsden, believes that management programs have helped steer Brown out of trouble. "We wanted Brown to be known as one of the best-managed institutions of higher education in the U.S." Broad faculty, and even student, support was enlisted for these programs. When Swearer in 1978 embarked upon a $158 million capital fund drive, instead of asking the faculty where it could cut back, he asked where...