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...Leonids, so named because they seem to radiate from the constellation Leo, are actually debris shed by comet Tempel-Tuttle. In an elongated, 33-year orbit of the sun, the comet travels as far out as Uranus, then back to within 91 million miles of the solar surface, passing close to Earth's orbit on both its way in and its way out. Like other comets, Tempel-Tuttle is, in effect, a dirty snowball that heats up as it approaches the sun and boils off some of its "dirt," which consists largely of particles, some pea size...
...smattering of organic molecules. Because comets have probably changed little since they were formed, data from the probe may reveal much about the early days of the solar system. Three years later, while swinging around the sun, the mother ship will rendezvous with a second comet called Tempel 2 and follow it for a year. During that time, it will continually observe all the changes the comet undergoes as it makes its fiery hairpin turn around the sun and heads off into space again. Then the craft will maneuver toward Tempers head and perhaps give it a parting nudge...
...Unilever's assets but pool its profits. Each has a board of directors that controls the board of the other. This tail-chasing organizational scheme works only because the same men are on each board. Although Unilever Ltd. Chairman George Cole, 55, and Unilever N.V. Chairman Frederik Jan Tempel, 61, run the company from adjoining offices. Cole-a husky. low-key executive who started out as a $4.20-a-week junior statistician with United Africa 38 years ago-is popularly considered...
...home office that it was bitingly called "Dear Octopus" by its employees. ("You had to cable London before you went to the bathroom," complained a Canadian executive.) But now autonomy is the rule. "Once the managers clear their estimates at the end of the year," says Co-Chairman Tempel. "they are free to go ahead...
...began its American expansion by buying the Good Humor Corp. for $8,200,000. The newly acquired Big Board listing will make it easier for Unilever to work stock-trade deals for still more U.S. companies and to borrow additional expansion capital from American sources. Says Co-Chairman Tempel: "We've only got 13% of our turnover in North and South America now. We want more. America's not bad ground...