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...delta, U Thant comes from a cultured, well-to-do family of landowners. Oldest of four brothers, all of whom became prominent in Burmese government and business, he is married to the daughter of an eminent lawyer. They have a 22-year-old daughter, Aye Aye, and a son. Tin Maung ("Tinny"), 19, both taking sociology courses at Manhattan's Hunter College...
...white-haired Zulu trudged toward his self-built, tin and concrete blockhouse near Stanger, Natal, a car pulled up alongside him on the dusty road. "I have a very important message for you," said the driver. "You have just been awarded the most important prize in the world...
...West 57th Street, Anka runs a musical empire that includes Paul Anka Productions, the Spanka Music Corp. and the Flanka Music Corp. A rug on the reception room floor has an immense orange anchor woven into its grey background, symbolizing the most improbable theme song in the history of Tin Pun Alley: Anchor's Aweigh, with which Anka opens and closes his performances...
...many skills alien to the old airframe makers. Each successive generation of planes relied more heavily on electronics-a science pioneered by such ground-based giants as A.T. & T., General Electric Co. and RCA. And with the advent of missiles, where guidance and propulsion are more important than the "tin can," the planemakers found themselves losing more and more defense dollars to previously ground-bound companies that did not know a vertical stabilizer from a hole in the wall but were expert in automatic control systems or chemical fuels...
...that if you can't join them, fight them is Richard S. Reynolds Jr., 53, president of the Reynolds Metals Co. To put its product to new uses, Reynolds sold sheet aluminum to U.S. canmakers for their products, but soon found them underselling aluminum cans with new "thin" tin-plate containers. Last week Dick Reynolds touched off a major battle of kick the can, announced that his company is entering the canmaking business to manufacture finished aluminum frozen-juice cans on location in Florida next season at a rate of 30 million a month. Reynolds estimates that packers...