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While Harvard students will receive Knowledge to last a lifetime during their classes this morning, one senior will receive a lifetime supply of pantyhose at 10 a.m. by spinning the "whammy wheel" on a television game show...
...Chrysler and Maserati, the Italian high-performance carmaker. Iacocca stands in one place, arms folded, studying the maroon convertible as it rotates slowly on a turntable. "I like the chrome," he announces. An aide scribbles a note. Chrysler's Maserati makes a half-turn. "I want better-looking wheel covers than this," the boss tells them. Clipboards rise. The hubcaps go. Iacocca has been at Chrysler for six years and five months. The first half of his time there was infamously miserable. There are some noteworthy errors from that dark era. "Selling our realty company was a goddam mistake--excuse...
...most details, the Chernenko funeral differed little from the final rites for Brezhnev and Andropov. The crack gray-uniformed honor guards, goose- stepping beside the red and black-bedecked gun carriage, each balancing his rifle on one hand, seemed as coldly perfect as a precision gear wheel put through one more rotation. Portraits of Chernenko bobbed above the crowds in a regular pattern as the cortege made its way into Red Square...
Later Gorbachev met privately with many of the leaders. Mitterrand described the new General Secretary as "a calm, relaxed man who appears willing to tackle problems firmly." Said Kohl: "You do not have the impression that you are listening to a Tibetan prayer wheel." Thatcher, who had proclaimed Gorbachev "a man with whom we can do business" after meeting him in Britain last December, said she was not changing her opinion after conversing with him for 55 minutes in Moscow. Said Canadian Prime Minister Brian Mulroney: "He's clearly in command and I think it augurs well for the future...
...Japanese insist rather lamely that U.S. products fare poorly not because of Tokyo's restrictions but because Americans have not taken the trouble to learn how to sell in the Japanese market. One oft-cited example: U.S. carmakers do not make a vehicle with the steering wheel on the right for Japanese highways. Detroit, scoffs a Tokyo official, seems to be convinced that "Japanese traffic moves the American way." U.S. carmakers call that a red herring. Detroit would happily switch the steering wheel if the Japanese would lower their tariffs and eliminate the mind-boggling inspection procedures that severely restrict...