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...Struggling U.S. steel and automakers have been severely hurt by Japanese and European imports, but Big Blue's competitiveness is unquestioned. The company is the leading computer firm in virtually every one of the some 130 countries where it does business. "IBM is like your papa," says a Swiss computer-marketing specialist, "because it's so big and it's always there." Even in Japan, which has six major domestic computermakers and restricts access to its markets, IBM is easily the dominant producer of large computers and is fighting Fujitsu for the overall title. Last year...
...Auburn St.): Owned by the same company. Eric's is located above and behind its sister establishment and really is the only place in the Square where you can catch a few rays as you drink. Naturally, you pay a few more cents for that privilege. The Swiss Inn Features a 4-7 p.m. happy hour Friday afternoons, with 50s off drinks and a buffet of cold cuts, cheeses, and chicken sings Basically, a free dinner...
...gentle evenings talking about literature, philosophy and the new findings in medicine and science. They examined the delicacy of the bloom in more than a hundred small gardens and inhaled the subtle scents of the catalpa trees ("Almost everything grows that is put into the ground," marveled a Swiss visitor in 1701). They worked and studied prodigiously for their beliefs, a diligence that became the young nation's defining trait. Lawyer George Wythe, whose house on the green is a visual joy, started a student in Greek at dawn and by evening had taken him through Latin, mathematics, French...
MARRIED. Anastasio Somoza ("Tachito") Portocarrero, 30, oldest son and onetime heir apparent to the late Nicaraguan dictator Anastasio Somoza Debayle; and Marisa Celasco Oberholzer, 24, Salvadoran socialite daughter of a Swiss mother and Italian businessman father; both for the first time; in Miami...
...McGraw-Hill began to pay Irving for his work, the writer insisted that all checks be made out to "H.R. Hughes." That permitted his wife Edith, posing as "Helga R. Hughes," to deposit the checks in a Swiss bank account. Irving and a coconspirator, Richard Suskind, carefully researched Hughes' life. They gained access to a manuscript by James Phalen, who was collaborating with a former Hughes associate, Noah Dietrich. That work in progress included rich anecdotes about the eccentric multimillionaire. Thus Irving's manuscript had a solid inside-Hughes ring...