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Heineken, said Friend Sergio Orlandini, president of KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, is "just the average Amsterdammer-although with a little money." That was putting it mildly. The portly, quick-witted financial wizard, who is worth an estimated $500 million, may be the wealthiest man in The Netherlands; he is also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Netherlands: Bad Fortune | 11/21/1983 | See Source »

The first scene opens in an Air Force wardroom which looks suspiciously like a grammar school classroom. The typical company--by now a familiar fixture in anti-war plays--consists of mute "idiots" and insubordinate and sharp-witted soldiers who clown around until, inevitably, one of them dies. As the...

Author: By Stuart A. Anfang, | Title: In Cambridge, Too | 11/9/1983 | See Source »

One agent was sent in as a German-with a forged passport, of course. He adopted a false name, with the middle initial "H." At customs, an official stopped him to comment that it was strange for a German passport to use an initial rather than the entire name; he...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jimmy Carter: 444 Days Of Agony | 10/18/1982 | See Source »

Without the lure of big names, the nightly The MacNeil/Lehrer Report over 270 public television stations consistently provides TV's best discussion of public affairs. Robert MacNeil, once of NBC, is a refugee from network news ("aware of its frequent triviality, its distorting brevity, its obsession with action and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newswatch Thomas Griffith: Quality in the Off-Hours | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

The ad is imaginary, but the idea is real. Or at least Robert L. Kingsbury thinks so. As director of the department of military and veterans affairs Robert in Los Angeles, he has espoused a novel civil defense plan: selecting "priority evacuees" now according to "their value to the society...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: First, Grab a Crowbar . . . | 5/31/1982 | See Source »

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