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...clunked or a long time between jokes. We wanted them laughing all the time." They broke into Hollywood in 1977 with The Kentucky Fried Movie, a collection of bits adapted from their stage sketches. As a three-headed writing-directing team, the Zucker brothers and Abrahams (known as ZAZ) struck it rich with Airplane! in 1980 and created the Police Squad! TV series, which later became the Naked Gun movies--one of Paramount's most enduring franchises...
Flextronics got its start in Silicon Valley in 1969 as a "board stuffing" operation back in the days when computer circuit boards were soldered and assembled by hand. In 1990, as recession struck the U.S. and much of the world, Flextronics sold off all its U.S. operations and reincorporated in Singapore; from there it operated a few factories in Southeast Asia and southern China. Flextronics grew steadily through the '90s, leveraging its early presence in Malaysia and China into a solid share of the "enclosures" market--doing final assembly for cellular phones, personal computers and printers. But when the Asian...
...change what they were saying about Kennedy and Vietnam," Gelb recalls. A 1970 article in LIFE magazine, by Jack's assistant Kenneth O'Donnell, recounted a previously unknown story in which Jack privately told advisers that he would withdraw U.S. troops from Vietnam after the 1964 election. "I was struck by it because this was so at odds with what we had been hearing from Kennedy people before," Gelb says. "They were changing their mind and trying to bring President Kennedy with them...
...Metal Processing Factory. The scene is typical of urban China's industrial districts; in Nanhai, a small city in booming, rough-and-tumble Guangdong province, scores of factories cluster together, their front yards choked with piles of twisted metal, junked plastic and old computer parts. But the killers who struck in the predawn hours of July 16 knew exactly which path would take them to their targets: Hou Kuo-li and Yeh Ming-yi, a pair of middle-aged businessmen from Taiwan who lived in the Lianjiao plant. Their bodies were discovered later that morning, along with those...
...floods to hit the state for 50 years. At least 160 people died in flash floods and mudslides in northern Pakistan, caused by record rains - 60 cm fell in Islamabad in one day. Iran, too, suffered death and destruction, with some 30 people perishing as torrential rain and hailstorms struck Ardebil province in the northwest. INDONESIA The Long Goodbye Defiant to the end, ousted leader Abdurrahman Wahid finally quit the presidential palace on Thursday, four days after the National Assembly voted him out of office on charges of corruption and incompetence. Once the Assembly removed Wahid as President, Vice President...