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...only showed up with a squad of twelve formidably well-drilled musclemen, but were instantly serious contenders for a medal. Kibitzers buzzed all week over the reason: three radically designed sleds that were both red and revolutionary. The Soviet bobs, guarded to prevent close inspection and whisked away by truck after practice runs, looked like sharks, or cigars or-the nickname that finally stuck-"cigarskis...
...sweating" with their lawyer as they tried to figure out what to do with so much loot. By the time the couple surfaced, they had already bought a new Oldsmobile, planned on getting a new house and quit their jobs (he was a $320-a-week truck driver, she a $150-a-week dry-cleaning attendant). The rest would go to relatives, traveling and charities. Uh, Dear Mr. and Mrs. Kelly: You might be interested in learning more about this deserving writer currently employed in the scintillating but underpaid field of journalism whose byline is... -By Guy D. Garcia
...Philip Hwang, 47, founder of TeleVideo Systems, a maker of computers and computer terminals. At twelve, Hwang was smuggled from North Korea to South Korea by U.S. troops under some maps and canvas in an Army truck. After arriving in the U.S., he paid his way through college working as a dishwasher and waiter in Lake Tahoe casinos. Hwang gained business experience by running a 7-Eleven store in San Jose, Calif., and then in 1975 used his savings of $9,000 to start making video games in his Cupertino, Calif., garage...
...punctuate our time. History unfolds as a sequence of detonations, a portion of the nightly news given over to psychosis. The scenes define a distinct style of politics in the world today, politics in a ski mask, violence dramatizing an unappeasable rage. Faceless, and morally depthless, the zealots crash truck bombs into their targets in Beirut or Tyre, go night riding with the Salvadoran death squads, or set the timers for the I.R.A. One sees their work-the almost daily deposits of bodies in the roads of Central America, for example. Or, in London, the innocent blown up to make...
Colby Chandler, 58, is in "a time between eras" and requires "a clear vision of the road ahead." A genial man who wears a Ronald McDonald wristwatch and drives a pickup truck, Chandler has his eye on new, nonfilm technologies like picture-recording optical discs. Says Brenda Landry, an analyst with Morgan Stanley: "In a nutshell, Kodak is attempting to become a major participant in the emerging new forms of image making...