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...exhortations like: "As Matthew says, 'The Eye is the Lamp of the Body!' If my eye is on the right things, the market rewards me." And sometimes there is bizarre advice: sell California real estate fast because the San Andreas Fault is about to part "like a Talon zipper right down the coast some time after May 1981." He is now having a chimpanzee trained to play his theme song, The Bagholder's Blues, on the piano. Granville does not charge for these appearances. Instead, he views them as chances to sign up additional subscribers...
...Jean Talon, an upper-middle-class area of Quebec City, Louise Beaudoin, a regional president of the Parti Quebecois, was trounced by an obscure Liberal lawyer, Jean-Claude Rivest. At the same time, Claude Ryan, the new leader of the provincial Liberal Party, won a 2-to-l victory in rural Argenteuil. A former editor of Montreal's influential daily Le Devoir, Ryan, 54, is not only a fresh political face but a debater whose verbal agility is a match for Levesque's. Last week Ryan called on Clark to support a constitutional change that would guarantee French...
...Talon by James Coltrane (Bobbs-Merrill; $8.95). In his first suspense novel, James Coltrane-in real life a Hawaii-based lawyer named James P. Wohl, 41-shows himself a young master of the medium. His antihero, Joe Talon, is a superefficient analyst of satellite photos for the CIA in Manhattan. He is also an unrepentantly laid-back hankerer for the surf-and-grass California scene. When Talon detects a curious and erroneous-or doctored?-cloud cover masking a remote area of Nepal, he bucks the Establishment to prove his suspicions, survives sundry assassination attempts and blows open a nasty conspiracy...
Since Little's day, conglomerates have become a dirty word on Wall Street; many hastily concocted ones fell apart. Textron is different: under Miller's management, it has combined Bell helicopters, Homelite chain saws, Talon zippers, Speidel watch bands and dozens of other products into a business that now grosses $2.6 billion a year and is increasing profits at an average of about 10% annually-just about meeting Miller's target...
...widely diversified empire. Thompson instituted independent divisions modeled on the General Motors system, became chairman in 1960 and raised Textron's sales from $383,188,000 to $1.7 billion before he retired in 1969. Today Textron has 33 divisions that make products as varied as Bell helicopters, Talon zippers, Sheaffer pens and Gorham silver. Textron at one point ran a cruise ship to Hawaii that managed to rack up staggering losses; Thompson had models of the ship made as a reminder to his executives that an acquisition-minded company could become too enthusiastic...