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http://fortune.com/2012/12/07/today-in-tech-behind-amazons-billion-dollar-tax-shield/
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Today in Tech: Behind Amazon’s billion-dollar tax shield
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Also: A look at Cisco CEO’s radical new strategy; why Netflix got in trouble over a simple Facebook post. Special report: Amazon’s billion-dollar tax shield [REUTERS] Amazon’s Luxembourg arrangements have deprived European governments of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax that it might otherwise have owed, as reported in European newspapers. But a Reuters examination of accounts filed by 25 Amazon units in six countries shows how they also allowed the company to avoid paying more tax in the United States, where the company is based. In effect, Amazon used inter-company payments to form a tax shield for the group, behind which it has accumulated $2 billion to help finance its expansion. Planning his legacy, Cisco chief maps an expansion [THE NEW YORK TIMES] Cisco, the chairman and chief executive says, will shift toward customers in government and large businesses, handling projects like designing and managing systems for efficient traffic and clean water across entire cities. Cisco’s plan is to create networks of sensors and data analysis systems, working closely with government officials and civil engineering companies. And it will work with companies to set up efficient mining, manufacturing and distribution systems. “It’s a $4 trillion market,” he said. “The days of boxes are over.” Apple CEO on challenge of keeping company cutting edge [ROCK CENTER] Steve Jobs’ hand-picked successor, current Apple CEO Tim Cook, talks exclusively to Rock Center Anchor and Managing Editor Brian Williams about Apple’s battle with Samsung, glitches with their maps app, the prospect of Apple TV and the challenge of keeping Apple cutting edge. Mapping Apple’s retail expansion [MACSTORIES] In terms of visitors per store, the first few quarters in which data is provided (Apple only started providing such data in Q3 2002) sees roughly 60,000 visitors per store. Quarter-to-quarter, these numbers vary but there is a roughly linear rate of growth on average with the last few quarters of 2012 averaging 230,000 visitors per store – or roughly 17,500 per week. In surprisingly, the Christmas Q1 sees a big spike in visitors every year, almost without fail. Series A crunch: By the numbers [FORTUNE] Series A deals in 2011 represented just 91% of 2010 seed/angel deals, compared to 109% the prior period. That figure dropped to just 65% in 2012, and I would expect the plummet to continue into 2013. After all, the number of seed/angel deals continues to rise and VC fundraising difficulties may mean that Series A commitments have plateaued. Netflix in trouble over Facebook [GIGAOM] So what exactly did Netflix and Hastings do to trigger a federal securities probe? The answer is that they used a Facebook page with more than 200,000 fans to share the news instead of a more traditional method like a press release. In theory, this means that they didn’t give everyone a fair chance to react to a “material event” that affected the share price. Don’t miss the latest tech news. Sign up now to get Today in Tech emailed every morning.
Also: A look at Cisco CEO's radical new strategy; why Netflix got in trouble over a simple Facebook post.  Special report: Amazon's billion-dollar tax shield [REUTERS] Amazon's Luxembourg arrangements have deprived European governments of hundreds of millions of dollars in tax that it might otherwise have owed, as reported in European newspapers. But a Reuters examination…
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Venezuela and Cuba offer US aid
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Speaking at an oil meeting in Jamaica on Monday, Oil Minister Rafael Ramirez said Venezuela's Citgo Petroleum Corporation would distribute the donated fuel. "We're working to put those barrels in place in the shortest time possible", Ramirez said. President Hugo Chavez has also offered to send the gasoline plus $5 million in disaster aid and a team of 200 humanitarian workers drawn from a special force of soldiers, firefighters and other specialists. At the same time, he has sharply criticised the US government for failing to evacuate the victims before disaster struck. Meanwhile, Citgo has set up a centre to help hurricane victims in Corpus Christi, Texas, the Venezuelan-owned company's president Felix Rodriguez said on Sunday in a phone conversation with Chavez during the president's weekly television and radio show. Chavez - a close ally of Cuban leader Fidel Castro and a frequent critic of US President George Bush - has said many lives could have been saved if the US government had been better prepared for Katrina. Cuban aid More than 1500 Cuban doctors are also ready to leave for the US to help Hurricane Katrina victims but Washington has yet to accept the offer of help from its longtime nemesis. Cuban President Fidel Castro paraded a small army of doctors, white-coated and carrying green knapsacks of supplies, at the Havana convention centre on Sunday night, after they dutifully reported for duty from all over the island. "Forty-eight hours have passed and we have received no response to our offer. We will wait patiently," said Castro, who increased his offer to 1586 doctors and 34 tonnes of medicine while insisting it was not politically motivated. "We're ready. There's a disaster in the United States, medical coverage is not sufficient, but ideology stands in the way," said doctor Rafael Vera, 43. "We lament that politics takes precedence while lives are being lost." Castro often deploys his doctors around the world and underscores inequities in the US health system, under which 40 million US citizens have inadequate medical care. Cuba and its northern neighbour have no diplomatic relations and regularly refuse one another's help. Cuba rejected the $50,000 Washington offered in the wake of hurricanes in 2004 and this year, and Washington declined Cuba's offer of help after the 9/11 attacks.
Venezuela has plans to send 1 million barrels of gasoline to the United States as soon as possible to help victims of Hurricane Katrina, while Cuba has prepared medical aid.
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http://fortune.com/2011/12/06/lexus-made-in-america/
http://web.archive.org/web/20150309023100id_/http://fortune.com:80/2011/12/06/lexus-made-in-america/
Lexus: Made in America?
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As Toyota Motor Corp. readies its new Lexus GS luxury car for export to the U.S. in early 2012, the company’s chief executive is raising the possibility that more Toyota production will move outside Japan. The strong yen, which has risen 9% in the past six months alone, is making the economics of building cars — especially compacts — in Japanese factories increasingly difficult. That could eventually make building luxury vehicles — which deliver the fattest profit margins and have provided manufacturers the most leeway in terms of where they are made — more complicated. Squeezed by currency, emboldened competitors and a changing market, Toyota TM is considering doing something it has long resisted out of pride: moving more of its luxury brand manufacturing offshore. So far Akio Toyoda has is hinting at moving only compact-car production outside the U.S., as well as buying more parts manufactured outside the country. But Lexus production, which is aimed mostly at U.S. buyers could be another category targeted for a move. Two of Lexus’s three German competitors have expanded production of Mercedes-Benz and BMW models in the U.S. Volkswagen AG’s Audi subsidiary is studying the possibility of U.S. production. More than mere economics are in play. “I’m sitting on the fence,” said Mark Templin, head of Toyota’s Lexus brand in the U.S. “This is a complex decision that would come from Japan. But we could build more Lexuses here.” Templin said Toyota’s “pride,” which stems from manufacturing its most prestigious models in its home country, would be difficult to overcome if it decides to shift more Lexus models overseas. Jeff Schuster, senior vice president for LMC Automotive, a forecasting company based in Troy, Michigan, said Toyota may be looking at a shift to North America “as a hedge for both currency fluctuations as well as external disruptions and disasters. I think it is something they are considering across the Toyota group.” Because many Toyota-branded models are already amde here, increased production would likely skew towards Lexus however. For the moment the most convenient place to move Lexus from a logistics standpoint, if such a decision was considered, would be North America, where the vast majority of the cars are sold. Cars built on this side of the Pacific would instantly be more profitable, on an exchange-rate basis, and could be delivered to customers faster. Templin declined to disclose a price yet for the new GS, which is designed to compete with Mercedes E-Class, BMW 5 Series and Audi 6. At a press event in Las Vegas on Nov. 30, Templin said the GS will represent a “value” compared to the competition, implying that it will sell for less than comparably-equipped competitors. The E-Class starts at $50,490, the 5 Series at $46,700 and the A6 at $41,700. To undercut the competition on price, while its costs are denominated in yen, will mean that Toyota may have to accept narrower profits than the company has historically earned. Toyoda has announced the goal of achieving a 5% operating profit for the company, which is lower than its historical average and half the 10% it was able to earn in fiscal 2004 when it was roaring towards dominance. All Lexus vehicles currently are built in Toyota’s plants in Kyushu and Tahara, Japan, except for the RX crossover, which is built in Cambridge, Ontario, Canada. According to J.D. Power & Associates, Lexus sold 376,221 vehicles worldwide in 2010, 83% of which were built in Japan. BMW built 81% of the 1.16 million vehicles it sold in Germany; Mercedes built 84% of its 1.3 million in worldwide sales in Germany. For Toyota’s financial performance to rebound, a broader global consumer base for Lexus is essential. The brand is barely two decades old and must contend with reinvigorated German luxury franchises, which have copied tricks, like white-glove treatment by dealers, that the Japanese used to put Lexus on the map in the first place. Templin said Lexus dealers in the U.S. now must redouble efforts to increase customer satisfaction beyond the upscale waiting rooms, loaner cars, latte bars and flat-screen TVs in which they’ve invested. He declined to say what exactly that might look like. “I will tell you this: the most valuable thing in the lives of our customers is their time.”
Squeezed by the the Yen and competitors, Toyota is considering doing something it has long resisted out of pride: making more tony Lexus vehicles in the USA.
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http://www.foxsports.com/arizona/story/a-look-at-the-cardinals-free-agency-moves-so-far-031015
http://web.archive.org/web/20150311222239id_/http://www.foxsports.com:80/arizona/story/a-look-at-the-cardinals-free-agency-moves-so-far-031015
A look at the Cardinals' free agency moves so far
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The NFL's free-agent negotiating period has made the actual start of free agency anti-climactic. By the time real signing period rolls around, we know where most of the big names are going, and for how much. That's not the way it's supposed to be, and the NFL reportedly sent out an unhappy memo reminding teams of this fact, but when you have agents eager to portray their clients in the most positive light, national reporters eager to beat each other to scoops and other "league sources" anxious to share their information, there's not much the league can really do to alter this frenzy unless it eliminates the period altogether. Players can still back out of deals up until signing, and there are still those pesky physicals to pass before deals can officially be announced -- a reality that may delay many Cardinals official announcements until Wednesday or later -- but here are the reported fruits and pursuits of GM Steve Keim's sleepless three days. The only signing of a player not with the team last year that the Cardinals have confirmed is veteran outside linebacker LaMarr Woodley, who agreed to a one-year deal. The team also re-signed nose tackle Alameda Ta'amu, and it's still possible cornerback Antonio Cromartie will return. LaMarr Woodley was injured for most of last season with the Oakland Raiders. Reported length/cost of deal: One year, $870,000. Draft status: Steelers' 2007 2nd-round pick (46th overall, Michigan) Career stats: 306 tackles (216 solos), 57 sacks, 16 passes defended, 5 INTs, Strengths/weaknesses: Woodley was released by Oakland, where he did not post a sack, but in eight seasons (seven with Pittsburgh) he has 57 sacks. Where he fits: Woodley is one of just four outside linebackers under contract along with Lorenzo Alexander, Matt Shaughnessy and Alex Okafor (eight sacks). Reports suggest the Cardinals are still pursuing free agent Brian Orakpo as well in the hunt for more sustained pressure off the edge -- the kind they lost when John Abraham all but retired last season. Durability: During the 2011 season, Woodley missed six games with a hamstring injury, and he missed three games in 2012 with a similar injury. He missed the final three games of 2013 due to a calf injury. He missed the final 10 games of last season with a biceps injury. Mike Iupati was selected for three Pro Bowls in five seasons with the 49ers. Reported length/cost of deal: 5 years, $40 million Draft status/college: 49ers' 2010 1st round (17th overall, Idaho) Career stats: Started 75 of 80 games in five seasons in San Francisco. Strengths/weaknesses: Iupati is known as an excellent run blocker who helped San Francisco finish among the league's top four in rushing each of the past three seasons. For what it's worth, given potential flaws in the site's methodology, Pro Football Focus only ranked Iupati 55th in the NFL in pass blocking, but that was still higher than last year's Arizona starters at guard, Paul Fanaika (tie-62nd) and Ted Larsen (76th). Where he fits: Iupati will move into the starting lineup and likely man the left side, while Jonathan Cooper moves to the right side in an important third season for the 2013 first-round pick. Larsen would remain as potential depth on either side along with Earl Watford. Larsen could also take over the center spot if the Cardinals cut Lyle Sendlein ($4.275 million cap hit). Durability: Iupati missed four games with MCL injury in 2013 but has missed a total of just five games in five seasons. Sean Weatherspoon was a first-round draft pick of Atlanta in 2010 but has missed most of the past two seasons due to injuries. Reported length/cost of deal: 1 year, nearly $4 million Draft status/college: Falcons' 2010 1st round pick (19th overall, Missouri) Career stats: 290 tackles (212 solos), 8 sacks, 15 passes defended, 2 INTs. Strengths/weaknesses: Scouting reports tout Weatherspoon as a run stuffer with good range along the line of scrimmage, but he is not as gifted in pass coverage and lacks a wide range of blitzing abilities, which limits his use on third downs. Falcons insiders also say he's a great locker room presence. Where he fits: With Larry Foote joining the coaching staff, Kevin Minter still underwhelming and Daryl Washington still suspended, the Cardinals desperately needed a solution in the middle. Durability: Weatherspoon spent part of the 2013 season on injured reserve/designated to return with a foot injury before making it back, only to exit again with a knee injury. He missed last season with a ruptured Achilles tendon, so there are are concerns, but if he is healthy, he also has less mileage on his legs. Corey Peters is a versatile interior lineman who is an underrated pass rusher. Reported length/cost of deal: 3 years, about $9 million Draft status: Falcons' 2010 3rd-round pick (83rd overall, Kentucky) Career stats: 146 tackles (101 solos), 11 sacks, 7 passes defended, 1 INT Strengths/weaknesses: Peters was looking for situation where he can be more than a rotational player. He can play 3-technique vs. the run and slide inside on passing downs, where he brings underrated pass-rushing ability. He didn't achieve the consistency last season that he had shown in 2013, but his Achilles injury from the previous season may have impacted his play. Where he fits: With Darnell Dockett gone and Dan Williams likely to sign elsewhere in free agency, Peters is a necessary replacement on a defensive line that features Calais Campbell, Frostee Rucker, Ed Stinson, Kareem Martin and Alameda Ta'amu. Durability: Peters missed six games with a left foot injury in 2012. He has missed just three games in his other three NFL seasons, including the final game of the 2013 season after suffering an Achilles injury. Draft status: Broncos' 2011 3rd-round pick (67th overall, N.C. State) Career stats: 104 tackles (67 solos), 2 sacks, 2 passes defended. Strengths/weaknesses: Irving is a hard hitter and an aggressive player who defends the run well, takes good angles and accelerates quickly. He could be a good situational fit, but scouting reports suggest he doesn't get off blocks well and doesn't do a good job reading offenses. The Cardinals will need to coach him up. Where he fits: Like Weatherspoon, Irving can help fill a desperate need for depth on the inside. Durability: Irving suffered a partially torn MCL and missed half the 2014 season on injured reserve. He had only missed two games in his prior three seasons. Draft status: Redskins' 2009 1st-round pick (13th overall, Texas) Career stats: 254 tackles (169 solos), 40 sacks, 17 passes defended, INT. Strengths/weaknesses: Orakpo is not an elite pass rusher but has the ability to be a good one, even if he struggled in that department (half a sack) before his injury last season. Orakpo is also a good run defender. Only four outside linebackers playing in the 3-4 defensive scheme had stopped the run as much or more than Orakpo (11) at the time of his injury. Where he fits: The Cardinals need someone to replace the consistent pressure off the edge they got from John Abraham and to complement Alex Okafor, who began to emerge last season with eight sacks. But they also want to be stout against the run, an ability that slipped over the second half of last season. Durability: Orakpo has only played 24 of a possible 48 games the past three seasons. In 2012, he missed most of the season with a torn pectoral muscle, and he missed the final nine games of the 2014 season with the same injury. He missed the final game of the 2013 season with a groin injury. Colts defensive end Cory Redding; Colts center/guard A.Q. Shipley; Raiders center/guard Stefen Wisniewski Follow Craig Morgan on Twitter
The Cardinals have offically signed outside linebacker LaMarr Woodley and reportedly signed three other free agents.
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Liam Neeson Reads Children's Book on 'Jimmy Kimmel Live' : People.com
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03/12/2015 AT 09:55 AM EDT , most parents develop a very particular set of skills. So seeing the imposing action star reveal a nurturing side by reading the children's classic seems fairly natural. At least that was probably what Jimmy Kimmel had in mind when he asked to do so during the star's appearance on Wednesday night's Only the story doesn't hold water for Neeson, who starts questioning its logic: "Why is she calling a doctor and not a vet?" Neeson wondered about the mother in the story. "This woman is sick and should be committed to a mental institution." "The end," he concludes sternly, before turning to another camera and kindly adding, "Sweet dreams, kids." Neeson can currently be seen in a much less cuddly set of circumstances, dispensing his own brand of weathered Irish justice in
Neeson doesn't understand why the protagonist of Five Little Monkeys calls a doctor instead of a vet
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http://www.foxsports.com/arizona/story/arizona-diamondbacks-daniel-hudson-yasmany-tomas-outfield-031515
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D-backs confirm spot on roster for Daniel Hudson; Tomas to get trial in OF
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Updated MAR 15, 2015 10:09p ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- The Diamondbacks were full of news Sunday. Right-hander Daniel Hudson is on the team, health providing. Yasmany Tomas is on the move, to play the outfield for the first time this spring Monday. Jake Lamb is on the radar for the 13th and final position player slot -- unless he ends up starting at third base. And the D-backs officially are down to eight candidates for the final three spots in the rotation behind Josh Collmenter and Jeremy Hellickson. Hudson has made a pair of two-inning starts this spring and will continue on a starter's path in the immediate future, but if a relief spot is a better fit, so be it, manager Chip Hale said before the D-backs played San Francisco at Scottsdale Stadium. "He's on this team, we just don't know what role yet," Hale said of Hudson. "He's a special guy. When you have a special guy like this, you want to keep him healthy and you have to find what that niche is." The D-backs have had internal discussions about a variety of roles for Hudson, who hit 94 mph in his first spring start while returning from a pair of Tommy John surgeries. Will his arm respond best on starter's schedule, and if it does, does that mean every fifth day on the mound? Every sixth? Every seventh? Would a bullpen role work best, even if it meant the D-backs would carrying a second reliever with multi-inning capacity. Randall Delgado, who is out of options, could be the other long reliever if he does not make the starting rotation. "It's really a fluid situation on starting-relieving," Hale said of Hudson. "We've talked about pretty much everything. What if we just started him and pitched him two innings every . . . but it's funky stuff. Do we have six starters? We don't want to look like we're re-creating the wheel here. We're just trying to do something that's going to keep this guy healthy. If we can get him through the 2015 season, all the way through, healthy, then I think he's going to be on his way." A 16-game winner on the D-backs' NL West-winning team in 2011, Hudson has given up three runs and three hits in his first two starts. He is expected to start and go three innings in his next appearance, which could come Wednesday or Thursday. The first three spots in the D-backs' rotation seems to be firming up, with Josh Collmenter, Jeremy Hellickson and Chase Anderson appearing to be the top contenders. Trevor Cahill gave up one hit and two unearned runs in a "B" game against Colorado minor leagues on Sunday morning and is also making a strong push, as is Rubby De La Rosa. Hudson, Robbie Ray, Delgado, Archie Bradley, Allen Webster and Yoan Lopez are the others still in the running, Hale said. Tomas will make his first appearance in the outfield this spring when he is to play right field against the Chicago White Sox on Monday, with Mark Trumbo getting a day off after getting three more hits in the "B" game Sunday morning, one an opposite-field double that one-hopped the right-center field fence against Rockies No. 1 starter Jorge De La Rosa. Tomas has shagged balls and some work in the outfield, but he has played only third base in games the first two weeks of spring. The D-backs saw him as a third baseman when they brought him to camp, and the move does not indicate a change of thinking, Hale said. At the same time, the D-backs have decisions to make and three weeks to make them. If Tomas does not play third, what happens in the outfield? Two-thirds of the spots are set, A.J. Pollock in center field and Trumbo in right. Ender Inciarte, David Peralta and Cody Ross are in the left field/reserve mix. It is difficult to fit six outfielders on a 25-man roster that includes 12 pitchers. Third baseman Lamb was the Southern League MVP at Mobile last season, and the D-backs have liked what they have seen thus far in camp. "We have a lot of questions to answer, and they're getting harder," Hale said. "I think Tomas is improving at third. I think Lamb is showing us he's a possible Gold Glove-caliber third baseman. And we have pretty good outfielders. There's going to be a lot of competition down the stretch." In a perfect world, Lamb would play every day this season to facilitate his development, Hale said, "but there's there's that one hovering spot there, that 25th spot, that we don't know where it's going to go right now." Lamb also could be a candidate to spell Paul Goldschmidt on his very occasional off days, Hale said. Trumbo played the last two months of 2014 at first base but will not be the backup there this season, Hale has said. Non-roster catcher/infielder Jordan Pacheco could also be a candidate for the final roster spot. Follow Jack Magruder on Twitter
Manager Chip Hale says the Diamondbacks will find a roster spot for pitcher Daniel Hudson, but they're not sure yet what his role is.
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http://www.foxsports.com/arizona/story/d-backs-cody-ross-outfield-depth-hip-injury-031115
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Cody Ross leading D-backs no matter his on-field role
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Updated MAR 12, 2015 12:46a ET SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. -- Cody Ross wants to be lost and found in the jumble of the Diamondbacks' roster questions, but nobody doubts the outfielder will be a part of this year's team. His leadership and the $9.5 million he'll make this season before a final team option for 2016 is good enough reason to know so. But 34-years-old and fighting up-and-coming outfielders for playing time, Ross is coming off a forgettable season that followed a freak hip injury suffered in 2013. Somehow, with all the expected questions about his role this year and future with the team, he feels free. "I feel like I couldn't be in a better place," Ross said. "I've never really had anything handed to me in this game until a couple years ago, had a contract and sort of told, 'You're the guy,' and I didn't know how to react. And injuries played a part in that. I'm back to where I'm comfortable and ready to go out there and prove people wrong, prove that I'm ready to go." Roll back the calendar to August 2013. Attempting to beat a throw to first, Ross dislocated his hip and fractured the hip socket. The veteran returned in mid-April last season, but he never could get back on track. Ross' on-base plus slugging percentage, .628, fell below .720 for the first time since 2006 as he watched the rise of young outfielders David Peralta and Ender Inciarte. Former D-backs manager Kirk Gibson lamented how Ross made his return from his hip injury, and the outfielder's play suffered following the rushed return. There is hope the outfielder can find the pre-injury magic with an offseason focused on baseball work rather than recovery. Over his career, Ross has been significantly more effective hitting left-handed pitchers -- his average jumps from .250 against righties to .294 -- giving him one advantage over Peralta and Inciarte, though Inciarte can be used against lefties as well. "Cody is such an impact guy off the bench, late in the game, against a set-up lefty, so we'll use him," said Arizona manager Chip Hale, before adding the obvious. "Again, health. When he's healthy I think he can still be a very productive player." Ross certainly was productive against the Oakland Athletics on Tuesday, knocking two doubles in three at-bats. The value Ross brings in experience grows beyond his own production. Third baseman Jake Lamb credited Ross for giving him advice that led to a home run against Athletics veteran pitcher Barry Zito -- Ross told Lamb which pitch was coming and when. Shortstop Nick Ahmed, who is attempting to prove his swing is capable, lists Ross among the veteran hitters on the team who have been open books. Ross' place on a young team with such low expectations has done the inevitable. It's led to his name being floated in trade rumors. "I used to let those things bother me back when I was a young buck. Now, I'm so used to it," Ross said. He's firmly committed to helping this team, even though his contract situation naturally makes this season about proving doubters wrong. Ross thrives in those situations, but the best-case scenario might take from the old cliche: winning cures all ills. "I'd be lying if I didn't want to play every day," Ross said. "I'm happy with whatever role that they want me to be in. I feel like we're going to have a good year, team-wise. I just want to win and that's the bottom line." Follow Kevin Zimmerman on Twitter
Outfielder Cody Ross is over the injury bug and ready to prove he can contribute, starter or not.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20150325223739id_/http://www.bostonglobe.com:80/business/2015/03/24/open-humans/IyULaUZ4KmSonqUvryj3uM/story.html
Open Humans - Business - The Boston Globe
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Medical researchers typically don’t share the results of their studies with the hundreds of participating subjects. But Jason Bobe, one of the Boston-based cofounders of the Open Humans project, wants to reverse that trend. The latest in a series of programs that let you share, or “open source,” your genetic and health data, Open Humans, which launched Tuesday, is striving to broaden the reach and eventual impact of medical research by making it easy to participate. Here’s how it works: First, you sign up for one of several studies being conducted at various universities. One study might invite you to sequence your entire genome and offer the data publicly. Another creates an inventory of bacteria in your gut. Once enrolled, you can see the overall results of those studies as they are released, and you can determine with whom you share your personal data. In the coming months, you can pool that data with information collected through health and fitness trackers. Open Humans is the latest in a series of similar initiatives. Announced earlier this month, Apple’s ResearchKit allows anyone with a smartphone to participate in clinical trials. The power of these programs is their sheer sample size — having hundreds of participants sharing information improves the speed and scope of research. What makes Open Humans different is that it gives people a place to view the information being collected. What they choose to do with that data afterward is up to them, but any researcher who accesses data is required to share his or her findings with the people who supplied it. “As we go about getting news and information about what’s going on within our own bodies, being able to unleash that data in new ways is what we’re excited to learn about,” said John Bracken, a vice president at the Knight Foundation, which awarded $500,000 to the project as one of the winners of its 2013 health challenge. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation contributed an equal amount. “A lot of people, when they hear about medical research, they think immediately about experimental cancer therapies. But we still have rudimentary knowledge about normal human variation,” said Bobe, who has described the project as “open-sourcing your body.” An upcoming study from New York University researchers will soon allow RunKeeper users to share their data via Open Humans.
Medical researchers typically don’t share the results of their studies with the hundreds of subjects who participated. But Jason Bobe, one of the co-founders of the Open Humans project, wants to reverse that trend.
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http://web.archive.org/web/20150328215805id_/http://www.people.com:80/article/compassion-empathy-led-food-network-star-murder-say-friends
Food Network Star Cristie Schoen and J.T. Codd Opened Hearts to Accused Killer : People.com
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The California friends who attended the North Carolina mountain wedding last October of Cristie Schoen and J.T. Codd marveled at the rural spot the couple had chosen to live out their dreams: a small, simple house on 36 acres, stretching from a valley to a wooded mountaintop, where the pair envisioned a self-sustaining hydroponics farm and room for their family to grow. "She found the fresh water spring, the big oaks, the beautiful apple and pear trees, the blueberry bushes, fresh grapes – she just had to have it," Dirk Long, Cristie's partner in a movie-set catering company and a former boyfriend, tells PEOPLE. Adds Perry Sachs, a writer-director and longtime friend of J.T.'s: "It's a place that other people would probably say wasn't remarkable, but he was making it remarkable, because that's what he did with everything." But something else at the wedding – celebrated under a white tent at a community center about 15 minutes outside of Asheville – stuck out for those guests: a couple of the local characters, and one in particular, Robert Jason Owens, a down-on-his-luck handyman the couple had hired to help out. "I remember them just being kind of weird, just not being the kind of people that you would find around J.T. and Christie," says Sachs. Another friend of the couple, Michael Mendez, says of Owens: "There was a gut feeling when I looked at this guy, and I avoided him. This was one person I definitely did not want to meet." Now Owens, 37, is in custody, charged with the of the couple and their unborn child, after which police say he When Owens's name and photo surfaced as the suspect, "the moment I saw him," says Mendez, "I just got the chills." Cristie, 38, and J.T., 45, both were known for their easy generosity. For Cristie – who competed in a 2012 season of the cooking show – it was rooted in the friendship and warmth celebrated around meals. Raised in Biloxi, Mississippi, she embraced the Southern and Cajun-style recipes of her family and region, and loved to feed a crowd. After finishing college in Louisiana she moved to California, where she and Long lived for a time in a one-bedroom Marina del Ray apartment that lacked a kitchen, with Cristie setting up a barbecue outside. "She would cook for everybody walking up and down that boardwalk off of that barbecue – the homeless guys, everybody," says Long. J.T., too, was non-judgmental with a helping hand. He lived homeless for a time just for the experience. "J.T. was an advocate for every underdog," says Lynne Mishele, who grew up with him in Gaithersburg, Maryland, before both relocated to Venice Beach, California. "He really took everybody under his wing who other people weren't willing to give a second look to." Says Sachs: "He was the mayor of Venice, basically. He would invite guys who had no place to live into his house to shower. That's the kind of guy he is. Every single person he touched was better for it." In California, J.T. found work on TV and film productions as a behind-the-scenes grip, then spent his money between jobs on backpack travels to places such as Costa Rica, Nicaragua and Thailand. An aspiring actress, Cristie surprised many with her affinity, drawn from her youth, for hunting and fishing, which she tied into her advocacy for healthy, off-the-land eating. After coming together as friends, their compassionate, outdoorsy and adventurous spirits merged. "Neither one of them were lacking anything," says Sachs. "They were both people who probably could have just been on their own for the rest of their life and been fine. But they happened to find each other, and realize they were perfect for each other. I think Cristie, just maybe, reminded J.T. that there were people in the world who were just purely good." With jobs that took them everywhere, they found and embraced their slice of North Carolina as a small-town haven to plant roots, build their farm, and work toward opening a farm-to-table café. The post-wedding news that they'd become pregnant – an ultrasound revealed a girl, due in July, and they picked the name Skylar – further anchored their dream. "Knowing that they were going to bring a child into the world, we all shared the same excitement, knowing how incredibly lucky this kid was going to be," says Julia Sachs, Perry's wife. James Fernandez, a film and TV set decorator and friend of the couple, says: "J.T. would have made an amazing father. It's funny how J.T., amongst all these friends, was the only one who was making his dreams come true." Yet even with the shared goal, "they were both very hard-headed," says Long. "Cristie always sort of kept him in line. 'Cause J.T. would say, 'We're going to do this,' and Cristie would say, 'No, we're going to do this.' 'Cause Cristie was always organized, and J.T. was always messy." In their rural hamlet of Leicester, J.T.'s search for helping hands found Owens, who was "out of work," says Mendez. "He became sort of like a handyman-helper." Owens worked to clear trees and build a well house for the couple, who gave him about $7,000 to set him up in business, says Long. They also gave Owens a key to their storage shed and tools – a leap of trust that Long, concerned, soon questioned. "J.T. was always trying to help the guy who was down on his luck," says Long, who told the couple, "You can't do that in the mountains of western North Carolina." Indeed, Long says, as J.T. gave out work and money, people came around looking for more, which began to cause Cristie alarm. "One guy came by one time trying to sell an M-16, or whatever it is," he says. "And then another guy came by and wanted some cash for gas, and J.T. said he would go fill up his tank the next day, but that was going to be it. So it was always that – 'Come to J.T. for money.' J.T. was like the ATM of the mountains." "J.T. didn't care about giving out the money," he says. "That's why Cristie was always flustered. He would have the mentally, 'Don't live in fear.' " Cristie's response to him: "You're crazy." Says Long: "She didn't want those guys coming up to the house. … She didn't want to be there by herself. She had three guns, so she wasn't that scared. But she was scared after these people had come around; she wasn't scared of the mountains, but she was a little scared of the monster J.T. had created." Authorities have not released a motive for the murders of the couple, who were reported missing March 15 after family members couldn't reach them. But after a caller reported "suspicious" dumping that night of items in a trash container that would turn out to include Cristie's ID, they followed a trail to Owens, who admitted to taking the recovered items. A later search of Owens's property turned up what police say they believe to be human remains. In a warrant, police say Owens told his wife "that he was driving the 2008 Dodge Ram that belonged to the victim when he struck and killed the male victim" on the Codds's property. Cristie's cause of death was not released. In addition to the murders, Owens – who has not yet entered a plea – also is charged with breaking and entering and larceny. Friends wonder about the possibility of robbery, or a demand for more money that was turned down by the couple. And they agonize over their mistrust of the man they saw at their friends' wedding, and what they might have done to save them. Fernandez recalls an incident during a bonfire on the couple's property after the wedding. "I was talking to Cristie, and as I'm talking to her, I see this guy who's kneeling down, about to tackle something," he says. The man – Owens – lept and pulled down another man by his feet, causing Fernandez to run over to him. "I screamed at him, 'This is not that kind of party!' As he was getting up, he goes to swing at me. I used his momentum to push him down to the ground, and I just held him down. His buddy came over. These two guys, I think, were peas in a pod," he says. "His partner helped him up and walked him off the property. He wanted to fight me, but I think his partner was a little bit bigger than him and put him in his place." "I told J.T. afterwards, and he just kind of shrugged it off. 'They work for me; things happen.' He's very forgiving in every situation. If J.T. said it was okay, it's okay. I just let it go," he says. In hindsight, Fernandez has reconsidered. While others were willing to dismiss it as a pair of locals drunk at the end of a long day of partying, "The Sunday after we realized they were missing, I called the detective and told him about that confrontation." "I wish I could have done something then," says Fernandez. Of his friends, he adds, "They're not really judgmental of people. They have so much love of everyone." "That's probably why it happened."
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Wow Air’s first flight to land in Boston today
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Wow Air, the low-cost Icelandic airline, will be landing its first flight at Logan Airport on Friday evening. It’s a big affair for the no-frills carrier. Iceland’s ambassador to the United States and the US ambassador to Iceland will be greeting passengers, and the company’s chief executive, Skúli Mogensen, will be there. The company, which bills itself as a “happy” airline, announced its plans to expand service to Boston in October, and has a flight scheduled six days a week between Boston and Reykjavik. From its base on the North Atlantic island, the carrier also provides connecting service to Dublin, London, Copenhagen, Berlin, and Paris. The airline was founded by Mogensen, a tech entrepreneur and investor, in 2011. It has just four planes and 175 employees, according to its website, but it flies to more than a dozen cities in Europe and has plans to add Washington, D.C., as a US destination this spring. Although other low-cost carriers like Ryanair are also expanding aggressively, the Icelandic airline has stood out for its quirkiness and the bright purple color scheme sported by its planes and flight attendants. Although base ticket costs are low, Wow Air charges passengers if they want to pick a seat or if their carry-on bags weigh over 11 pounds. If passengers book far enough in advance, the company advertises one-way flights for $150 between Boston and Reykjavik, although a more typical fare, booked six weeks in advance, is more than $200. Other European destinations can be reached for less than $600 round-trip.
The low-cost Icelandic carrier provides service to Reykjavik and other European cities.
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Jessa Gets Ready for Ben Seewald Wedding : People.com
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03/31/2015 AT 12:20 PM EDT will air Jessa Duggar's wedding to on Tuesday, and PEOPLE has your exclusive First Look at Jessa in her wedding dress just before she says "I do." Jinger, who is Jessa's BFF in the Duggar family, was "stunned" to see her sister in her wedding dress. "It was amazing. She is a beautiful bride." As Jessa, 22, explains, she found her dress just a few weeks after Ben got down on one knee to propose. "When I put it on, I was like, 'This is it. I don't need to try on any other dresses – Tune in to watch Jessa and Ben tie the knot on , airing at a special time, Tuesday at 8 p.m. ET on TLC.
"When I saw Jessa come out in her wedding dress, I was stunned," says sister Jinger
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RACIAL PROBLEMS POLARIZE A TOWN
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MIRACLE VALLEY, Ariz., Oct. 10— The late Asa A. Allen, a radio and television evangelist, founded Miracle Valley in 1958 at the base of the Huachuca Mountains in southeastern Arizona, three miles north of the Mexican border. He gave Miracle Valley streets names such as ''Loaves and Fishes Drive'' and ''Healing Way,'' and made it the home of his Bible school, telephone prayer service and publishing concern. Mr. Allen preached hellfire and damnation, faith healing and, years ahead of his time, racial tolerance. But today, 11 years after his death, racial turmoil that led to the recent death of a young black man in an explosion has the residents of Miracle Valley shivering. The 300 blacks and 200 whites who live in this unincorporated area profess allegiance to Mr. Allen, but neither group can stand the other. Whites say they have been intimidated by blacks, who last year formed armed security patrols. White residents say that blacks have used threats of force to stop the authorities from arresting comrades for traffic violations. Blacks say they started the patrols, which no longer carry weapons, in self-defense after whites burglarized and vandalized their homes and church. But neither side can fully explain what they are fighting about. ''You're asking me what's the problem?'' said the Rev. Frances Thomas, pastor of the all-black Christ Miracle Healing Center and Church. ''I wish I knew. I wish I knew what I ever did other than being black.'' Racial Tension Relatively New A white woman who has lived here 21 years and who says she worked fo r Mr. Allen said, ''There were never any differences for us as far as race goes, and I don't know why it would be religious.'' White residents assert that Mrs. Thomas, who is stout, stern and cuts an imposing figure, exerts a cult-like dominance over her followers and is at the heart of the problem. The church's pastor and members heatedly deny that. The whites here are rural Arizonans and the majority of the blacks came from Chicago. The latter group, along with a contingent of black church members from Mississippi, began moving here more than two years ago because ''God told them to,'' Mrs. Thomas has said. Critics of Mrs. Thomas note that there was little trouble until last year, when she closed down the c hurch's Chicago operation and moved here. U ntil then, an associate pastor ran things in Miracle Valley. ''Before she came to the Valley,'' said one longtime resident, ''our children played together. People were friendly. But when she came, everything changed.'' The resident said a woman church member who had been her friend stopped visiting. Another nonmember said two church women counseled her to repent and to stop wearing ''un-Godly'' slacks and jewelry. Church Shuns Use of Medicine The church's most controversial stricture forbids members to go to doctors or use medicine because the church believes the Lord will heal. That belief, area doctors and health officials contend, has led to the deaths of four children of church members who might have lived had they received medical care. Last spring, the death of one child prompted the Arizona Department of Economic Security to go to court to seek supervisin of four of the child's brothers and sisters in case they needed medical treatment. But a Cochise County judge in nearby Bisbee turned down the request. Tensions between blacks and whites began to worsen last winter when church members formed the patrols, saying that the authorities were doing nothing to protect them against burglars and vandals. Cochise County Sheriff Jimmy Judd said his deputies ''answer every call whether you're green or whatever.'' Despite a series of meetings between blacks and whites, relations continued to deteriorate. In June the authorities beefed up patrols in the area, and in August 50 sheriff's deputies and Highway Patrol officers moved in and established an outpost here. Bomb Explodes in Van About three weeks ago a van carrying four church members exploded and overturned three miles west of here, killing Steven Lindsey, 21 years old, and injuring his companions. The authorities said a bomb caused the explosion. Mrs. Thomas and members of her church contended their enemies planted explosives in the van. Her opponents, however, say they suspect church members were carrying bombs to the nearby town of Sierra Vista, where they planned to use them to free two fellow members being held in jail there. The authorities said they are continuing to investigate the matter and have not commented publicly. Newspaper articles quoting unidentified sources and citing records of a nearby dynamite company, have said that church members bought the dynamite found in the van. Mrs. Thomas said the church purchased dynamite for a church-owned mine, but that her followers did not know how to make bombs. The Arizona chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People asked Gov. Bruce Babbitt to investigate the matter. But Mr. Babbitt replied through an aide that enough people were already trying to find out what was going on. ''It'll take the Lord to bring peace here,'' said one resident.Asked how the Lord could help the situation, she replied, ''I don't know. You'll have to ask Him.''
The late Asa A. Allen, a radio and television evangelist, founded Miracle Valley in 1958 at the base of the Huachuca Mountains in southeastern Arizona, three miles north of the Mexican border. He gave Miracle Valley streets names such as ''Loaves and Fishes Drive'' and ''Healing Way,'' and made it the home of his Bible school, telephone prayer service and publishing concern. Mr. Allen preached hellfire and damnation, faith healing and, years ahead of his time, racial tolerance. But today, 11 years after his death, racial turmoil that led to the recent death of a young black man in an explosion has the residents of Miracle Valley shivering. The 300 blacks and 200 whites who live in this unincorporated area profess allegiance to Mr. Allen, but neither group can stand the other.
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Private equity is changing slower than you’ve heard
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There is a burgeoning narrative about how private equity is reconsidering its traditional model, with eyes toward raising long-dated funds that would allow them to hold portfolio companies for 20 years or more. Basically moving closer toward a Berkshire Hathaway BRK.A structure, albeit not always with publicly-traded shares. Some of this talk is based on reported experimentation with such funds by large private equity incumbents like The Blackstone Group BX and CVC Capital Partners. Some was prompted by a February speech by TPG Capital co-founder James Coulter, in which he talked about the private equity industry experiencing “titanic shifts.” In general, however, this “evolution” is overblown. The reason for interest in long-dated private equity funds is that certain institutional investors believe that private equity fees are too high relative to performance. This is largely because private equity charges fees up-front on uncommitted capital, slowly ratcheting down the fees (in terms of hard dollars) as capital is called down (and then often paying them back once investment returns are generated). Or, as Coulter put it in his speech: “That fee drag in the early years of a fund actually becomes difficult.” But if you create a long-dated fund, you can charge lower annual fees. Not only because fees would be charged for more years, but also because overhead can be reduced. After all, it should be cheaper to run a fund that has 20 years to invest its money than one that only has five years to invest. And the same goes for hold periods (i.e., longer to turn companies around). The only problem, of course, is that private equity firms already have begun to lower fund fees. Not only “sticker prices,” but many firms are abandoning old rules that said any cost break enjoyed by one limited partner would be enjoyed by all. Today, larger investors can get added discounts for buying “in bulk” — plus are being encouraged to participate in co-investment vehicles that often do not include any management fees on uncalled capital. And the reductions have proved success, with U.S. private equity fundraising having rebounded from its 2009-2012 lull (average of $95 billion raised annually) to average nearly $180 billion over the past two calendar years. I can think of only a couple of long-dated funds being raised in that more recent crop, and those were for firms that implemented such models long before they became rhetorically trendy. Even Coulter’s TPG is in the midst of raising a new flagship fund that has… you guessed it, a traditional time structure. To be sure, private equity firms will try to innovate in their quest for better performance. But when it comes to fundamental structure, few firms will deviate sharply from what has worked for them for decades. If there is movement, it will be glacial. Get Term Sheet, our daily newsletter on deals & dealmakers. Watch more business news from Fortune:
Private equity may have Buffett envy, but it isn't rushing to copy him.
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Watch Peter Facinelli Talk About What Went Wrong During His Proposal to Jaimie Alexander
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04/02/2015 AT 03:00 PM EDT As if proposing isn't already nerve-racking enough! told PEOPLE on Tuesday about how his came scarily close to being ruined. star had arranged for a plane to fly by the top of the Empire State Building with a banner at 4 p.m. "At 3:55 she was like, 'I'm cold, I'm going to go inside,' " Facinelli, 41, says. "And then all of a sudden I look up when she went in and the plane was there!" After bringing Alexander, 31, back out, he lost the plane in the clouds and figured it had passed. "I had binoculars and I looked up and I saw a helicopter, and I looked and couldn't find [the plane] because I was nervous that it had left," Facinelli continues, "and then I gave the binoculars to her and she goes, 'Yeah, it's right there,' and then she read the banner, so it worked out." Whew! And after the plane was finally spotted, did Facinelli finish up with a traditional proposal? "I had just bought these new jeans and they were a little tight," he says, "so I said, 'My jeans are tight but I'll try to get down on one knee.' " in late 2012, and both are starring in upcoming NBC shows: Facinelli in
The clouds at the top of the Empire State Building came close to ruining the famous couple's engagement
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Defining responsibility down at Ally
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In the shameless self-promotion department, Ally Financial now wants us to applaud whenever it manages to obey the law. Here is a quick look at the firm’s brand and marketing strategy, outlined in a presentation at Tuesday’s annual shareholder meeting. Points one and two don’t actually mean anything, though they will score big in any buzzword bingo games that happen to break out. But point three is sort of interesting. Ally doesn’t mention it, but banks are obliged by law to operate in a safe and sound fashion — “at all times,” if you can believe it. What a heavy burden these guys shoulder! This is because the banks enjoy the privilege of the taxpayer-backstopped federal deposit insurance fund. Ally has never failed – another point its marketing materials didn’t mention, though who knows, maybe that’s a surprise for next month – but it did take a $17 billion bite out of taxpayers when Treasury bailed it out in December 2008. The firm hopes to begin repaying us with an initial public offering this year, but it still has some debts to society. Ally was among the 14 banks scolded this month by the Fed for its half-baked response to the foreclosure crisis. As part of that wrist slap heard round the Beltway, Ally had to agree – without admitting or denying the allegations, natch – to end what the Fed deemed “unsafe or unsound banking practices.” So yes, Ally promises to operate safely and soundly “at all times” – and who’s not to believe it, given a proud track record that stretches back all of two weeks? How far the unmighty have fallen. Follow me on Twitter @ColinCBarr.
In the shameless self-promotion department, Ally Financial now wants us to applaud whenever it manages to obey the law. Here is a quick look at the firm’s brand and marketing strategy, outlined in a presentation at Tuesday’s annual shareholder meeting. Do Right – Advocate, strive for customer satisfaction Be Obviously Better – intelligent experience, win-win, be a challenger Operate…
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Boston Flower Exchange at center of developer bidding war
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A bidding war has erupted over the Boston Flower Exchange’s property on Albany Street in the South End, with three more developers matching or exceeding a $35 million offer for the land made last year. The new offers on the 5.6-acre parcel, which analysts say is one of the city’s most sought-after properties, were disclosed in a March letter from the exchange’s board of directors to its shareholders that was obtained by The Boston Globe. The letter did not disclose who had bid on the property, but said the offers came with “minimal conditions” and were floated by “reputable, self-funded developers with experience developing projects in Boston and Cambridge.” A sale of the property, which the board called “the only realistic path forward,” would require the owners of two-thirds of the company’s shares to vote “yes.” The exchange is owned by wholesalers who run stands inside the warehouse, its board of directors, and descendants of former flower growers who operated out of the facility. The approximately 200 shareholders have until April 14 to respond to a questionnaire about the sale. If holders of at least 5,510 shares respond in favor of a sale, the board said it would “proceed to negotiate the best possible deal with a buyer.” Otherwise, it will not pursue a sale. When the wholesaling collective moved to Albany Street in 1971, the area was a gritty industrial district prized mostly for its access to nearby railroad lines and highways. Today, the exchange’s massive low-slung warehouse is an anachronism in a gentrified South End. Propelled by a white-hot market, the value of the Albany Street land has soared in concert with luxury housing complexes under construction nearby, such as the Ink Block and Troy projects. The exchange was founded in 1909 by a collective of 123 growers that wanted a single marketplace from which to hawk flowers to retailers. Many of the current shareholders are descendants of those 123 growers or of former wholesalers. They have little remaining connection to the exchange’s day-to-day business. Each of the exchange’s 8,265 outstanding shares would yield a return of around $2,500 before taxes if the property sells for $35 million, according to a rough analysis in the board’s letter to shareholders. Some of the 14 wholesalers who work in the building today, however, have deep reservations. Despite its age-old business model, trucks from dozens of area florists and grocery stores still stop by the exchange early each morning to load up on flowers. The wholesalers have warned of disruptions to the region’s flower supply — and to their livelihoods — if the Albany Street warehouse closes. Some wholesalers said in recent interviews that they are considering leaving the exchange to start an alternative in the event of a sale. The problem, they have said, is finding a suitable, affordable location. The wholesalers have limited power to stop the sale. Several vendors suspect that board members hold much of the stock themselves. To sell the business, the board would need a unanimous vote from shareholders; selling the building, however, requires a lesser, two-thirds vote of all shares. “The board cannot represent in good faith to any purchaser that it can deliver 100 percent of the stock without serious expense, potential litigation, and an uncertain outcome because it knows that there are stockholders who are not in favor of sale,” the letter said. “The only realistic path forward is an asset sale, i.e., a property sale.”
A bidding war has erupted over the Boston Flower Exchange’s property on Albany Street in the South End, with three new developers matching or exceeding a $35 million offer for the land made last year.
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Deontay Wilder eyes heavyweight unification bout with Wladimir Klitschko
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Updated FEB 27, 2015 8:34p ET Deontay Wilder is driving around in a Hummer and sports cars, leaving his beer delivery truck days far behind. He watched the Super Bowl from the stands instead of his couch and made his rounds at the NBA All-Star game, too. His decade-long journey from community college dropout to keg hauler to boxing celebrity was cemented with his unanimous decision over Bermane Stiverne on Jan. 17. He became the first American to capture a piece of the heavyweight title since Shannon Briggs in 2006. It moved him to 33-0 after winning the previous 32 fights via knockouts within the first four rounds. And he says he's far from done. The Tuscaloosa, Alabama, native's next goal is to try to knock off Wladimir Klitschko as the world's top heavyweight and ultimately restore boxing's once-pre-eminent division to its American heyday, most recently with Mike Tyson and Evander Holyfield on top. ''I'm not going nowhere no time soon,'' he said in a recent interview. ''I'm not losing no time soon, or ever till I retire. That (Klitschko) fight's going to definitely happen, and I'm looking forward to it. That's something I'm super excited about and very confident in it when it happens.'' Wilder is letting his broken hand heal, a casualty of the Stiverne bout, so his next opponent and timing of the fight are uncertain. He thinks he broke it in the fourth or fifth round but was still able to go the distance in the 12-round bout. The journey to the top came in leaps for the 6-foot-7 Wilder. He dropped out of Shelton State Community College with the birth of his daughter Naieya, who has spina bifida. He wandered into the gym near his house and went on to win the National Golden Gloves and a bronze medal in the 2008 Olympics less than three years after taking up the sport. But to pay the bills and support his family, he delivered beer before finally quitting a few years ago. A half-dozen of his former co-workers and bosses were at the Stiverne fight in Las Vegas, including Spencer Burchfield, president and co-owner of Greene Beverage Co. *By clicking "SUBSCRIBE", you have read and agreed to the Fox Sports Privacy Policy and Terms of Use. Burchfield recalled Wilder's physical prowess - he'd carry a keg in each arm - and compliments from customers for his manners and demeanor long before a sledgehammer right hand became Wilder's calling card. ''You could just tell his whole work ethic and just his ability to get along with everybody,'' Burchfield said. ''Everybody liked him.'' Wilder still trains at the no-frills Skyy Boxing in suburban Tuscaloosa where he got his start. The gym is decorated with wall-to-wall magazine covers featuring boxers but not much else. From the outside it looks more like self-storage units than a training ground for a 29-year-old who aspires to boxing superstardom. The inside is a ring, a couple of weight machines and some heavy bags tucked into the back corner. A woman and a teenager worked out in the back on a recent afternoon and a middle-aged woman popped in for Wilder's autograph and a chat. It's that kind of place. Wilder, who successfully helped lobby for a state boxing commission in Alabama, plans to stick around. Other Alabama natives like Joe Louis (Lafayette) and Holyfield (Atmore) left the state. Wilder wants to build a similar legacy from an Alabama base and isn't shy about stating his goal of unifying the titles - or anything else, for that matter. ''I want to put my name in history. I love history,'' Wilder said. ''I always picture my grandkids looking at their grandfather and saying, `My grandfather was the last or the first to do something.' There's nothing like setting goals and watching yourself get there, accomplishing that goal and putting your name to a part of history.'' The Stiverne win was a statement for Wilder. He had not needed to go deep into a fight before. Clearly he pays attention to the doubters since afterward, he was in the ring shouting: ''Who can't box? Who can't box?'' ''They assumed he couldn't take a punch, they assumed he couldn't box, they assumed he couldn't go the distance,'' said Jay Deas, Wilder's manager and trainer. ''They assumed he couldn't overcome adversity. That was all completely ridiculous.'' Wilder has the supersized, swaggering personality to be a boxing attraction. He also has a knack for one-liners including the pre-Stiverne fight proclamation: ''I'm about to send this Haitian on permanent vacation.'' Describing himself as ''naturally silly,'' Wilder said he's serious when he trash-talks other fighters. ''Some guys may play around and say a couple of things but if I say it I mean it,'' he said. ''I may laugh, it may be funny, but if I say I'm going to get you I'm going to get you.'' Meanwhile, Wilder feels confident he has passed Alabama football coach Nick Saban as the most famous man in Tuscaloosa. ''Definitely. There's nothing like a heavyweight champion of the world, because there's nothing like a world champion,'' he said. ''I think I'm definitely the biggest. Sorry, Nick.''
Deontay Wilder hoping to deliver self into boxing history
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Mischa Barton Sues Her Mom for Stealing Money
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04/07/2015 AT 07:45 PM EDT is suing her mother, PEOPLE confirms. The actress, 29, claims that her mother, Nuala Barton, has stolen money to buy a $7.8 million Beverly Hills home, where Mischa is not welcome to visit, according to court papers obtained by PEOPLE. Alex Weingarten, Mischa's lawyer, calls Nuala "a greedy stage mother" in a statement to PEOPLE. "From the outset, Nuala positioned herself to siphon her daughter’s hard-earned money by purportedly acting as her talent manager – a role for which Nuala had absolutely no experience or training," Weingarten says. According to the complaint, neither Nuala nor Barton's father Paul has had a job independent of Barton in over a decade. In addition to allegedly taking money from her over the course of her acting career, Nuala has "exploited [Mischa]'s name to start a handbag line and a fashion boutique," a source tells PEOPLE. Mischa is suing for damages and court costs. The actress's own home was in . According to papers obtained by PEOPLE, she was $100,000 delinquent on her mortgage.
The actress's mother has allegedly exploited her and taken money
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Post-financial crisis milestone: Banks beat market
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FORTUNE — The banks are back — at least when it comes to the market. For the first time since the financial crisis, shares of the nation’s largest banks look likely to handily outperform the rest of the market in 2012. The S&P 500 Financials index, which tracks 81 companies and also includes insurers and such asset managers as Blackrock BLK , is up 22% with a little over two weeks left in the year. That’s nearly double the return of the full S&P 500, which is up nearly 13% in 2012. Shares of Bank of America BAC , for instance, are up 90% this year to a recent $10.50, making it the best performing of the bunch. But all of the big banks have seen their shares pop this year. The stock of Citigroup C , which recently pushed out CEO Vikram Pandit, is up 43% this year. MORE: Wall Street experts: Where to invest in 2013 Investors seem to be cheering bank stocks at a time when the firms are still struggling. Indeed, the market gains, perhaps not coincidentally, have come at a time when the banks have been sending more and more of their staffs to the curb. Recently, Citi’s CEO Michael Corbat said his bank will cut 11,000 positions. Bank of America has cut about 16,000 workers this year. What’s more, the types of events that used to send bank stocks tumbling have barely dented their shares this year. Remember the London Whale. The market doesn’t. Shares of JPMorgan Chase JPM are up 30% this year, despite the $6 billion trading loss. Bank of America, too, agreed to pay $2.4 billion to settle a suit that it mislead shareholders when it purchased Merrill Lynch at the height of the financial crisis. Nonetheless, things do indeed appear to have improved for the banks in 2012. Lending increased, albeit slowly, for the first time since the financial crisis. The mortgage business was a bright spot for big bank profits this year. It had been the largest source of their pain during the financial crisis. Capital ratios — a measure of bank health that compares how much money banks have on hand to cushion them against bad loans and other assets — for most banks have nearly doubled. In the run-up to the financial crisis, the average tangible capital ratio at the large banks was 4.5%, according to the International Monetary Fund. That means if just 4.5% of a bank’s loans went bad, it would have to raise more money or it would be out of business. These days those ratios for most of the large banks are more like 9%. Goldman Sachs’ GS ratio is now 13%. MORE: More bank deals on the way The question is whether bank investors have gotten ahead of themselves. Some have wondered, for instance, in another change from the financial crisis, if Goldman has too much capital. New regulations have restricted what the banks and can do. Goldman and others may have run out of ideas of where to put their money to produce new revenue. In announcing Citi’s job cuts, Corbat’s first major move since taking over the bank in mid-October, he said very little about how he would boost business. For all banks, analysts expect revenue in the fourth quarter to be down from last year. KBW bank analyst David Konrad recently wrote in a report to clients, “After a strong run, it might be time for a pause.” He was writing about Bank of America, but he could have easily been writing about American banks in general.
Investors have pushed up the shares, even as the companies themselves continue to struggle.
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The new union rule that has employers outraged
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Workers who want to unionize will now have a much easier go of it. That’s because starting Tuesday, a new federal rule aimed at speeding up the union election process goes into effect. Employers—in a surprise to no one—are outraged. According to the National Retail Federation, the rule changes will “ambush” employers. The Chamber of Commerce says the change limits employers’ free speech. And business trade groups in Texas claim that it will have a “deeply destabilizing and harmful impact” on employers. “The impact of this rule will be felt by small businesses nationwide as employers will have a difficult time responding and employees will have decreased access to education during union election campaigns,” Angelo Amador, the National Restaurant Association’s senior vice president of labor and workforce policy and regulatory counsel, said in a statement. What’s making them all so upset? The changes to the union election rule mark a dramatic shift in the way in which workers can gain representation. Employers used to have about 38 days between receiving an election petition from a union and a vote among workers to accept union representation. During that window, employers could talk to their workers about what joining a union would mean for them. Under the new rule, the delay between the election petition and the actual unionization vote will shrink to as little as two weeks. Employers must also hand over workers’ names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses to unions. The so-called “quickie” election process has the support of Democrats in Congress and labor groups, who say it will cut down on misconduct by employers who want to dissuade workers from supporting a union push. Meanwhile, business groups and congressional Republicans have attacked the rule changes on several fronts. The Chamber of Congress, along with the National Association of Manufacturers, the National Retail Federation, and the Society for Human Resource Management, filed a legal challenge to the new rule in the District of Columbia in January, and the Associated Builders and Contractors of Texas and the National Federation of Independent Business Texas are fighting it in Texas federal court. Both cases are pending. The Chamber of Commerce argues in its complaint that the new “ambush” election process limits the rights of employers to engage in protected speech at a time when they need to exercise their free speech rights the most. The Texas lawsuit argues that “the impermissible pro-union objective” of the new rule accelerates the election so much that “employers will be unable to respond effectively to union organizing campaigns.” In March, both chambers of Congress voted largely along party lines to approve a resolution that would have stopped the implementation of the changes that the National Labor Relations Board adopted last year. House Speaker John Boehner has said the new rule signifies “an assault on the rights and privacy protections of American workers.” But late last month, President Barack Obama vetoed the resolution and allowed the rule changes to proceed, calling them “modest but overdue reforms to simply and streamline private sector union elections.” The new union election rules come against a backdrop of dwindling union representation in the United States. In 2014, the union membership rate was 11.1%, down from 11.3% in 2013 and 20.1% in 1983, the first year for comparable union data, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
Opponents say the new union election regulations will “ambush” employers and have have a “deeply destabilizing and harmful impact.”
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3 ways to recharge at work
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MPW Insider is an online community where the biggest names in business and beyond answer timely career and leadership questions. Today’s answer for: How do you stay motivated at work? is written by Kara Goldin, founder and CEO of Hint Water. My professional life has spanned every tier of the ladder—from waiting tables to running a company. Today, I’m blessed to say I have a fulfilling career that keeps me excited and challenges me to grow every day. But even your dream job can lose its spark sometimes. And staying inspired becomes harder than it once was. Even as CEO of my own company, I can still benefit from a motivational boost from time to time–here are my three best tips: Stay organized I’m a big believer in making lists. Beyond the obvious benefits of keeping you organized and focused, lists are goals that you set for yourself on a daily basis. By making a list of your tasks every morning, you clearly establish your objectives. As you go through your day, crossing off each assignment, you provide yourself with a reward system that leaves you feeling accomplished and proud of your work (and yourself). Be sure to disconnect When you love what you do, it’s easy to allow that passion to keep you glued to your office, phone, or laptop. There’s nothing wrong with hard work, but there comes a point when being committed means taking a break in order to keep you at your best. How you choose to disconnect will depend on you. Maybe it’s just for a weekend—no phone or email for 48 hours might be exactly what you need to reenergize. Or perhaps you need a whole week. Whether it’s a beach you’ve been dying to visit or a road trip you’ve been putting off, experiencing something new is the perfect way to hit the reset button. Do what you love There comes a point in everyone’s career when we have to ask ourselves: Why am I doing this? If you don’t love the work you’re doing, no number of road trips will get you excited about going to work every day and giving it your all. Believing in what you do is crucial, and in my experience the best work is the kind that fulfills you on a deeper level—not even the most impressive pay check will keep you fully invested in the long run. Your time is precious—devote it to work you’re passionate about, and let the difference you’re making be the ultimate motivation. Read all answers to the MPW Insider question: How do you stay motivated at work? How to impress your boss at work (the right way) by Erica Galos Alioto, vice president of local sales at Yelp. How this CEO finds motivation at work every day by Perry Yeatman, CEO of Perry Yeatman Global Partners. The art of staying motivated at work by Beth Fisher-Yoshida, director of Negotiation and Conflict Resolution Program at Columbia University. The best lesson I learned from joining a board by Juliet de Baubigny, partner at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. 5 secrets to stay motivated at work by Sarah Robb O’Hagan, president of Equinox.
Even the most rewarding job can lose its spark.
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Turner prize shortlist includes painter who imagines death of Dr David Kelly
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The death of Dr David Kelly imagined in paint, a haunting Scottish lament heard beneath the bridges of the Clyde and a history of the present told as if by a voyager on the Soviet space station in 2103 – all these are works by the artists on a lyrical, melancholic, even elegiac shortlist for the 2010 Turner prize. And, despite the great popularity of the Banksy exhibition in Bristol last year, his fans will be disappointed. Although enthusiasm for his work was expressed publicly by one of the judges, Andrew Nairne, the street artist has not made the shortlist. Dexter Dalwood is the artist whose work titled The Death of David Kelly might draw comparisons with hefty history paintings such as David's magisterial The Death of Marat, which depicted the revolutionary journalist's corpse in his bath after he was killed by Charlotte Corday. Dalwood's painting, however, is quite different. It shows a tree backlit by the moon atop a little mound: an imagined vision of the scene of the weapons expert's death rather than a depiction (perhaps mercifully) of his suicide in 2003. Dalwood, 49, has also made works called Greenham Common and Brighton Bomb, constructing scenes from descriptions in the media and exercising his theory that "history is a construction, a fiction ... I am constructing histories from a necessarily subjective view, which is no more or less real than any of the other attempts to describe that time or event". The titles of his works, said the novelist Philip Hensher, one of the jurors for the £25,000 prize, are "tantalising", referring to paintings such as The Queen's Bedroom and Sharon Tate's House. Recent years have seen "an overt political commitment" surfacing amid the artist's interest in celebrity, according to Hensher. This year's shortlist is unusual because it includes two painters. Angela de la Cruz, 45, a Spanish-born artist who distorts, rips, breaks and crushes her canvases to the point where they resemble sculptures as much as paintings. "She has a great love of material textures, of rich messy surfaces and complicated forms. They carry great emotional weight and they are a sheer pleasure to look at," said Hensher. If what draws together all four shortlisted artists for the prize is melancholia and wistfulness for the past, then those qualities are particularly present in the work of Susan Philipsz, the Scottish sculptor who was once rejected by Glasgow School of Art (but accepted at Dundee). Philipsz, 44, has been nominated for, among other works, a sound installation recently created for the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. Beneath three of the Clyde bridges, passers-by could catch recordings of Philipsz singing a 16th-century Scottish lament called Lowlands Away. Catching people unawares under the bridges, the sound had a haunting, mysterious lilt: Philipsz's work draws on "loss, longing and the power of memory", according to judge Polly Staple, the director of the Chisenhale gallery in London. Philipsz is particularly adept at finding curious and evocative sites for her sound pieces, which invariably consist of recordings of her own pleasant, but untrained, singing voice. For an exhibition in Spain last year, a recording of her singing Syd Barrett's song Long Gone was heard by visitors entering the museum. She has also made pieces for supermarkets, bus stations and underpasses; her singing "acting as an emotional trigger for artists to reflect on their own sense of being". Penelope Curtis, the director of Tate Britain, said today that organisers would be "flexible" if Philipsz wanted to make a piece for the Turner prize exhibition using a space other than the rooms reserved for the show. The final name on the shortlist is that of the Otolith Group, which consists of Kodwo Eshun, 44, and Anjalika Sagar, 42. Neither is a trained artist – Eshun studied English at Oxford University and Sagar read anthropology and Hindi at the University of London. Working primarily in film, the group – whose name comes from the term for the part of the inner ear that senses tilt – has delved into forgotten archives to uncover hidden histories, or stories of what might have been. Their film Otolith 1 imagines a world with humans, ill-adapted to gravity on Earth, who exist on space stations; it is narrated by Dr Usha Adebaran-Sagar in 2103, who reports on the present from her perspective far in the future. The Turner prize exhibition at Tate Britain opens on 4 October 2010. The winner will be announced on 6 December 2010.
Dexter Dalwood, Angela de la Cruz, Susan Philipsz and the Otolith Group nominated – but no Banksy
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Paris Hilton and Nicole Richie's Instagram Throwback in Tinkerbell Costumes : People.com
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04/24/2015 AT 10:50 AM EDT It's true what they say: Tragedy has a way of bringing people together. posted an adorable throwback photo on Thursday night of the heiress and longtime on-again off-again best friend in their younger days. The girls are wearing fairy costumes and giving the camera their best smizes. The picture is yet another in a long line of Chihuahua, Tinkerbell. Although the dog isn't pictured in the snap, Hilton, 34, captioned the photo: "#Tinkerbells #RIPTinkerbell #TBT." Hopefully, revisiting all of these happy memories with Tinkerbell is making the as happy as it's making us – we'll take any chance we can get to revisit . Thursday's photo offers a rare glimpse at the friends' pre-reality star life, when they were just two girls attending the prestigious Buckley School in Los Angeles. Although Richie, 33, and Hilton faced some rocky times in their friendship after ended, they have since mended their relationship and appear to be
See who's featured in her latest #RIPTinkerbell tribute
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BOOKS OF THE TIMES
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By John Leonard SOLOMON & SHEBA. By Faye Levine. 227 pages. Richard Marek. $10.95. ''SOLOMON & SHEBA'' was published last fall, when some of us weren't paying attention, for which we should be thrashed. It is as if Preston Sturges had decided to take on the Old Testament. Here is Sheba, Queen of the South, asking those important questions in the presence of Solomon, who has just about had it with his lazy Egyptian wife: ''So how are you, King?'' Sheba says. ''I'm good,'' answers Solomon. ''Understanding. Bring my wisdom to bear. The important thing is justice. How justice is in my kingdom, that's how I am.'' It occurs to Sheba that Solomon is somewhat pompous. She likes him anyway. Justice may be the definition of well-being for the King of Israel, who is busy trying to decipher the secret of the pyramids in order to finish his temple; love is the definition of well-being for the Queen of Sheba, on an economic mission - by elephant and camel - that will cost her the matriarchy. Solomon will certainly enjoy Sheba, but then Sheba will also enjoy Hiram, the architect of the temple, and Solomon most emphatically will not enjoy contemplating the fact of Hiram and Sheba. Clearly, in this funny and moving novel, some liberties have been taken with the Old and New Testaments, the Talmud, the Koran, Sufism and arcane masonic lore. Faye Levine, who has written for magazines as various as the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone and Penthouse, shreds her research and weaves a whole new basket. Thus Sheba tells us about the division of power in what may or may not be Ethiopia back in the 10th century B.C. She gets to be queen, perhaps because of the hair on her legs, whereas her good friend from childhood becomes first minister: ''We decided that she would fulfill the mystery functions, and I the mundane. Sometimes queens had really gone wrong trying to handle both.'' We are advised that ''Solomon and his scribes were undeniably powerful controllers of the media,'' that Pharbis loved Moses ''before he got into Jewish liberation,'' that Shebans when it comes to sex ''do it in groups,'' that the king of Tyre, commending human sacrifice, told Solomon ''trust me on this'' and that the old priest Abithar, in ''suburban exile,'' explained to Solomon that ''I don't get into town much anymore'' but could nevertheless guarantee that ''certain things would be taken off the record.'' This cheekiness consorts quite happily with special knowledge. Miss Levine has interesting things to say on child immolation, geometry, camel bags and chamber pots, the color of Gnosis (saffron orange), ebony and termites, left handedness, ''existential nausea,'' birds and unicorns and Druids and trees and the wearing of socks during a perversion. But the cheekiness and the special knowledge yield, again and again in marvelous passages, to a lyric reimagining of lost cultures and lost religions, of Sheba ''arrogant as a river'' and Solomon swearing by his ''bones and ivory,'' of fire in an acacia bush and nameless gods speaking from volcanos and the disestablishment of the female sex. According to Sheba, whose ancestors murdered the unicorn ''because it was the creature of oneness'' in stead of a duality: ''And love, that is her god, that is his devil, emanates in a fine mist from a priest's hut, from a striped Sheban tent, from a granite and limestone temple too intricately perfect to survive crude history, til it reaches the nooks and crannies of monks' brains bending over goldlettered manuscripts and freezes again into stone on the greatest cathedrals.'' Poets and warriors, ''shameless and lustful,'' teach us that ''the trees are older than the earth.'' Snakes are abolished. Sheba, pregnant, ''moved as if inside her the infant were a great cat, restlessly stalking its escape.'' Her son will ''string his harp with arrows.'' Dialectic of Love Well, ''Solomon & Sheba'' is a harp strung with arrows. We have no way of knowing which questions Sheba asked of Solomon, but Miss Levine turns their moon-haunted tryst into a dialectic of love and justice, of geometry and sacrifice, of dams and temples, of the wisdom of sex against the wisdom of power. She says: ''But we know that birds do not live in our universe; they live in heaven, and experience nothing but emotion, and know nothing but the ascent and descent of angels'' the pyramids point in another direction. There are also horses and lions. In betraying matriarchy - her son will be a king - Sheba betrays feminism. It is astonishing that Miss Levine has managed to make this apocalypse laughable, heroic and obvious, as though the conversation in our bedroom depended on a nostalgia for the prehistoric and we were waiting for the unicorn to forgive us. What a splendid first novel, and how nice it is to have stayed in print long enough to be noticed by someone who didn't do his job the first time around.
By John Leonard SOLOMON & SHEBA. By Faye Levine. 227 pages. Richard Marek. $10.95. ''SOLOMON & SHEBA'' was published last fall, when some of us weren't paying attention, for which we should be thrashed. It is as if Preston Sturges had decided to take on the Old Testament. Here is Sheba, Queen of the South, asking those important questions in the presence of Solomon, who has just about had it with his lazy Egyptian wife: ''So how are you, King?'' Sheba says. ''I'm good,'' answers Solomon. ''Understanding. Bring my wisdom to bear. The important thing is justice. How justice is in my kingdom, that's how I am.''
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It's here: Fight week begins with Pacquiao caravan to Vegas
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Updated APR 26, 2015 4:33p ET LAS VEGAS (AP) The last time Freddie Roach was on the interstate linking Los Angeles with this boxing capital, he was written up for going 140 mph. Roach will be driving a lot slower Monday as part of a colorful caravan of hundreds of cars heading down Interstate 15 with Manny Pacquiao for his showdown with Floyd Mayweather Jr. ''Manny will spar on Monday for the last time and after that we'll break camp and everyone will go to their cars and trucks,'' Roach said. ''The entourage used to be about 100 cars, I'd say there might be 1,000 cars this time.'' Fight week is finally here, and even in a city known for the outlandish it is shaping up to be something special. The richest fight in history has spawned $100,000 ringside tickets, hotel rooms going for $1,600 a night, and a pay-per-view price just a nickel shy of a $100 bill. Even $10 tickets to see the two fighters at the weigh-in are running as much as $700 through online ticket brokers. Everything is over the top for the megafight that was five years in the making. That includes the caravan that will bring Pacquiao to Las Vegas, featuring hundreds of cars and a custom bus wrapped in Pacquiao's image for some of the luckier members of his entourage. ''I might have the fastest car,'' Roach said. ''But if I get one more of those tickets I can't drive anymore. I asked the police officer, why do they make these cars so fast if you can't drive that way? I should have shut my mouth.'' Pacquiao is scheduled to arrive at the Delano Las Vegas hotel at Mandalay Bay sometime early evening Monday following seven weeks of training at Roach's Wild Card Boxing Club in Hollywood. His arrival marks the unofficial kickoff to a fight week unlike any other in a city used to hosting the biggest fights. So far it doesn't look like promoters underestimated the demand for the fight. The cheapest ticket on the StubHub website Sunday was $5,245, while ringside seats were being offered for as much as $106,950. Even tickets to watch on closed circuit at various MGM-owned properties in Las Vegas - which originally sold for $150 - were being offered at $620 or more online. Everybody will pay for a fight that will likely earn Mayweather $180 million and Pacquiao $120 million. Even Roach had to shell out $70,000 for 20 tickets for family and friends, though he was able to get his at retail prices. ''My mother asked for four tickets and my mother gets whatever she wants,'' Roach said. ''My brothers and sister all want to go. I'm happy I can afford to buy them tickets.'' While Pacquiao will be arriving in town, Mayweather lives here and has been training at his own gym just west of the Las Vegas Strip. His promoter, Leonard Ellerbe, said Sunday that Mayweather will treat the week just like any other big fight he has been involved in. ''It's a typical fight week, business as usual,'' Ellerbe said. ''Floyd is going to put on a spectacular performance, you can count on that.'' Ellerbe said he isn't surprised by the demand for anything to do with the fight, which will smash records for biggest gate and almost surely set records for pay-per-view sales. ''Everything is out of the stratosphere,'' he said. ''It shows you the world wide appeal of this fight.'' Roach can be forgiven if he speeds a bit on his way to town. A seven-time winner of the trainer of the year award by the Boxing Writers of America, he said Pacquiao guaranteed him a win last week so he would win the award for an eighth time. ''This will be my biggest win ever,'' Roach said. ''This one really counts, it will be in the history books the rest of our lives. I think my guy is ready for it.''
It's here: Fight week begins with Pacquiao caravan to Vegas
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3 secrets to finding the best freelancer for your company
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You’re inspired, you have an idea for a business and you think you are ready to start on the journey as an entrepreneur. Using freelancers is a great way to get things going and there are platforms out there that can help you find the team needed to kick-start your company. For example, when starting my watch company Yes Man, I needed to create computer-aided designs to show the details of my watch to my manufacturer. Instead of bringing on a designer as an equity partner, I connected with a freelancer who helped me design our initial line of watches. While they can definitely offer cost-effective solutions, it can be challenging to find a good match. Jumping in and finding a freelancer can be challenging. Here are three essential you need when selecting one or more freelancers to make your dream a reality. No project should get underway without a well-formulated plan. Freelancers are not magicians. They cannot read your mind and suddenly get your idea after a couple of emails. The best products and services are built following a period of qualification, strategic planning and definition of a product’s functions. Otherwise, you are just wasting your time (and money), along with the freelancer’s. 2. Take time to select the right people and establish a good working relationship. After you devise a plan and are able to determine exactly what you need, you need to find the right person. One recommendation I have is invest in a platform’s hiring tools. For instance, Freelancer.com’s Recruiter tool manages the applicants for you, similar to a HR firm. Using this tool, you’ll be able to delegate the hiring process. If you want to manage the process yourself, keep in mind that posting a project online will yield a lot of interest and there will be a lot of people saying they are the best fit for the job. Treat hiring a freelancer like you would treat hiring a permanent member of your team. Here is a checklist to utilize: 3. Move forward with open communication. Never be afraid to say what is working well and what isn’t. Have daily check-ins and review work regularly. If things are not getting done, then make the choice to change freelancers. (Making those choices late, could kill a startup.) At the same time, listen to the freelancer and treat them just like any other member of the team. A great freelancer can add so much more to your idea and help build an incredible product or service. Hiring a freelancer is an often overlooked outlet for entrepreneurs. Struggling to find the right fit within your network can take ages, while finding a freelancer online could literally take less than a day. The potential for freelancers is limitless, as the network continues to grow and connects people around the world. If you’ve been struggling to find someone with a certain skillset to join your team, it’s time to look into hiring a freelancer. Everything You Need to Know About Hiring a Freelancer 3 Steps for Getting Over Your Fears of Starting a Freelance Business Hacking Elance: How to Make Money Freelancing
Freelancers need strategic direction, just like your other employees.
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Dave Goldberg's death shines spotlight on risks of treadmills
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Details on Dave Goldberg’s death are still murky. The entrepreneur and husband of Facebook’s chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg was found bleeding out in a Mexican hotel gym on Friday. He died shortly afterwards at a nearby hospital, but the strange circumstances are only slowly emerging. Despite the darkness surrounding the incident, it is nonetheless shining a spotlight on the contraption at the center of the tech executive’s death: your run-of-the-mill treadmill. Goldberg slipped and fell while using one of the machines at a swanky Four Seasons near Puerto Vallarta. He hit his head and died from brain trauma and blood loss, local authorities told CNN. But his freakish accident actually isn’t that rare. Every year, tens of thousands of Americans are injured on treadmills. Thousands are taken to the emergency room. A handful die. Data suggest that the problem is getting worse. As high-tech, high-powered treadmills proliferate, so, too, do the digital distractions that make the machines even more dangerous. Mr. Goldberg was the chief executive of SurveyMonkey and the husband of Sheryl Sandberg of Facebook. ‘‘We have to weigh the costs and the benefits of these types of activities, and just be aware of what some of the risks are,’’ says Janessa M. Graves, a professor at the College of Nursing at Washington State University who led a 2013 study of exercise machine injuries. Treadmills are almost as old as Western civilization. The Romans used them to grind grain. They were later adapted to horses, then prisoners. It wasn’t until after World War II that cardiologists started recommending their use. When the first cheap home treadmill was invented in 1968, the trend was off and running. Today, treadmills are the nation’s most popular type of exercise equipment. More than 50 million Americans now use them, CBS reported. The exercise industry grew by 3.5 percent in 2014 to a total of $84.3 billion, and ‘‘treadmills continue to be the largest selling exercise equipment category by a large margin,’’ according to the Sports & Fitness Industry Association. But exercise equipment — and treadmills in particular — can also be dangerous. ‘‘Almost 460,000 people were sent to the hospital in 2012 for injuries related to exercise equipment,’’ according to USA Today. ‘‘The vast majority — nearly 428,000 were treated and released for their injuries — but about 32,000 were hospitalized or were dead on arrival.’’ Treadmills account for the majority of such exercise equipment injuries, Graves told The Washington Post in a phone interview. In a study of 1,782 injury reports from 2007-2011, she found that ‘‘treadmill machines comprise 66% of injuries, but constitute approximately only 1/4 the market share of such equipment. ‘‘Mechanical belt-driven equipment may present disproportionate injury risk in mechanical home exercise equipment,’’ she wrote in her study. ‘‘While we do not have data on the use of these machines, our study suggests the need to consider the hazards associated with in-home mechanical exercise equipment in the context of exercise recommendations.’’ Graves says she was shocked not only by the proportion of injuries caused by treadmills, but also by the victims. ‘‘We were surprised by the number of pediatric injuries that we saw,’’ she says. ‘‘There was a pretty high incidence among kids, especially 0-4 years old, also 5-9 years old.’’ In many cases, kids turned on their parents’ treadmills, only to burn their hands on the fast-moving tracks or, worse, get their fingers caught in the powerful machines. According to data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), roughly 19,000 people went to the emergency room in 2009 due to treadmill injuries, including nearly 6,000 children. Incidents like Goldberg’s death are outliers, Graves argues. Instead, most treadmill injuries among adults are simply sprains or strains to the lower extremities. ‘‘I don’t think our data suggests that those incidents that make the news are common,’’ she says. Those incidents are the ones that tend to stir debate, however. In 2009, Mike Tyson’s four-year-old daughter Exodus died after getting her neck caught in a treadmill cord, setting off a national discussion over the safety of the devices. What is concerning is the increase in exercise equipment injuries, Graves says. According to NEISS data, these injuries nearly tripled from 1991 to 2012. The same is true of treadmill injuries, she adds. The rise in exercise equipment-related injuries could be due to two factors: the spread in fitness equipment as devices have gotten cheaper and more powerful, and the proliferation of smartphones and other mobile electronic devices that may distract us as we try to run. The iPhone was introduced in 2007, for example, and exercise equipment injuries increased 45 percent over the next three years. Commercial treadmills at health clubs also feature an increasing number of buttons to be pushed and monitors to be checked, not to mention built-in television controls for built-in screens. Unfamiliarity with increasingly complex treadmills can be a factor in injuries, says Jared Staver, a Chicago personal injury attorney who says he has handled more than 100 cases involving gym injuries. ‘‘Clearly if there’s not someone there to instruct a user, especially a novice user, in how to use a machine, then I think the technology and the knowledge of how to set the speeds and so forth could certainly play a role in an accident, he said, stressing that he has no knowledge of Goldberg’s death beyond what he has heard from news accounts. ‘‘There is an inherent risk to working out. We all know that. If you overdo it, you may hurt yourself and obviously you may even die,’’ Staver admits. ‘‘It’s kind of ‘user beware.’ If you’re going to go on a foreign machine that you’ve never used before, you have a duty to yourself to make sure you are instructed on that machine’s particular use and you use it accordingly. If you don’t do that but instead go ahead full steam, you may suffer the consequences.’’ Graves points out, however, you can get hurt using something as innocuous as a yoga ball or an elastic band — as Sen. Harry Reid, D-Nev., did on New Year’s Day. She says more research needs to be done to see if treadmills are really any more dangerous than other types of exercise equipment, and if cellphones are really a distraction to treadmill runners. ‘‘I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that if you’re running on a treadmill and you get this text from a reporter at The Washington Post, then you’ll stop and get thrown off the back,’’ she says. ‘‘So I don’t think it’s outside the realm of possibility that an injury can occur while being distracted by a mobile or electronic device.’’ Goldberg’s family has not said how his fatal injury occurred, or if he was using a cellphone at the time.
In the era of smartphones, David Goldberg’s freakish accident actually isn’t that rare.
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Why the U.S. may be heading toward recession, in one chart
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It’s been a pretty miserable couple of weeks for the U.S. economy. Last week, the Commerce Department announced that GDP growth in the first quarter of 2015 fell dramatically to 0.2% on an annualized basis. But after new data released Tuesday showed that the trade deficit in March was far higher than economists had expected, it’s likely that GDP in the first quarter actually shrank. For now, most economists expect that the economy will bounce back in the second quarter of 2015, just like it did last year, and that overall real growth will beat last year’s performance of 2.4%. But a new analysis from Jodi Gunzberg, global head of commodities at S&P Dow Jones Indices, argues against this consensus, and instead makes the case that we’re headed for another recession. Gunzberg points to the outstanding performance of commodities in April as measured by the S&P GSCI index, which gained 11.1% that month, the 19th best month since the index first starting tracking these commodities back in 1970. Two groups of commodities–energy and industrial metals–did particularly well, rising by a combined 12.67% in April. It’s not common for these two groups of commodities to surge in value at the same time. According to Gunzberg, the two indices have only moved in tandem about 30% of the time since 1983. And there have only been 12 months in which the energy and industrial metals sectors have risen more than they did in April: As you can see, the months in which these sectors did well are clustered around times leading up to a recession. Gunzberg argues that this is because firms that rely on these materials—like oil and natural gas in the energy sector, and copper and aluminum in the metals sector—start buying up these materials in bulk when they sense their performance is about to start waning. “When you look at broad economic cycles,” says Gunzberg “equities lead the cycle, while commodities are on the cycle.” In other words, as the market nears a top, and companies are flush with cash and capital, but short on faith in their future performance, they start to hoard the basic commodities that power the global economy. But eventually their performance takes a turn for the worse, and so does demand for raw materials. Of course, Gunzberg’s data goes back by just 30 years, and it predicts only three recessions. It’s possible that these data only point to strange coincidences rather than something with real predictive power. But with the U.S. in its 70th month of economic expansion–the sixth longest the U.S. economy has had since 1850–the slowdown in the first quarter may very well be more than just a blip.
A sharp increase in the value of energy and metals in April could spell bad news for the U.S. economy.
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Bishop tackles Ebola outbreak as Australia wraps up its presidency of the UN Security Council
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A little after 6am today, few people were on the streets of New York - for good reason, considering it was -2C. But the below freezing temperature didn’t deter Foreign Minister Julie Bishop, who before her last day as President of the United Nations Security Council headed at speed for Central Park on her regular morning run. The run - or the walk in the case of John Howard - through Central Park has become a bit of a tradition for Australian politicians. This one with the foreign Minister however, was a bit more energetic than most. Back at the Australian consular offices, the word was out the minister enjoyed a bit of company on the runs; each morning this week, a good number of New York-based Aussies joined in. This afternoon, though, it was back to business, with the subject at hand the ongoing battle to stop the spread of Ebola in West Africa. Australia's two year term on the all-important Security Council ends next month so this was the last time an Australian representative will fill the President's chair for some years to come. While in opposition Ms Bishop continually attacked the Rudd government for spending $24 million on the bid process to win the Security Council seat. Now though, it's been seen as a great success and it's a Liberal minister who gets to champion its achievements. With Australia vacating the seat, the power and the prestige is now passed on to New Zealand. Do you have any news photos or videos?
In her final moments as President of the UN Security council, Julie Bishop has set her sights on the Ebola outbreak.
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Erin Paine Welcomes First Child : People.com
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05/15/2015 AT 03:30 PM EDT The Bates family just got a little bit bigger! Erin Paine and her husband Chad welcomed son Charles Stephen IV, who will go by "Carson" on May 15 in Knoxville, Tennessee. This is the first child for the new mom who appears on UP's where cameras follow Paine – the second-eldest of 19 siblings – and her parents Gil and Kelly Jo on the family's "Words cannot describe the joy we feel," Erin, 23, and Chad told PEOPLE. "The pregnancy has been filled with times of excitement and gratitude, but also with many fears about Carson's safety." due to a blood clotting issue and received ongoing treatment throughout her pregnancy. Despite the risk of severe blood loss in childbirth and likelihood that her son would need to spend his first days in intensive care, Carson arrived in perfect health. "We are so grateful to all that prayed and sent encouraging messages. Our hearts are so full, and we know our lives will be changed forever. We thank the Lord for allowing us to experience this blessing." And the first-time parents aren't the only one's overjoyed about newest member of the family. "Seeing Carson arrive here safely has been one of the most precious sights, because we have been praying for his safety for so long!" said three-time grandparents, Gil and Kelly Jo. "We are truly grateful to welcome our third grand baby and we feel so blessed to be able to celebrate this moment." premieres June 4 at 9 p.m. ET on UP.
The reality star and her husband welcomed son Charles Stephen IV on May 15
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Picasso painting breaks auction record at $179.3m‏
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Pablo Picasso’s 1955 abstract oil painting ‘Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O)’ has broken the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction after being purchased for more than $179.3 million by an anonymous buyer. The record was previously held by Francis Bacon’s work ‘Three Studies of Lucian Freud’ which sold for $142m in 2013 at an auction. The auction house, Christie’s, had expected the artwork to sell for about $140m, but buyers bidding via telephone quickly drove the price up to $160m, the auction ending after less than 12 minutes.The last time it was sold in auction, in 1997, it only fetched $31.9m. The auctioneer, Jussi Pylkkänenm, told The Guardian he was not surprised that the piece sold for a record price. “It will be fascinating to see how long this Picasso will hold the world record,” he said. “It could be a decade. It could be longer than that. We really have witnessed a piece of not just art history, but cultural history at Christie’s.” Few of Picasso’s works remain privately owned and are in high demand. In 2013 Picasso’s ‘Le Reve’ was bought by billionaire hedge fund manager Steven Cohen for $155m in a private sale. The bidding for ‘Les Femmes d’Alger’ was won by Brett Gorvy, the head of post-war and contemporary art for Christie’s, who was bidding on behalf of an anonymous buyer. Do you have any news photos or videos?
Pablo Picasso’s 1955 abstract oil painting ‘Les Femmes d’Alger (Version O)’ has broken the record for the most expensive artwork ever sold at auction after being purchased for more than $179.3 million by an anonymous buyer.
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Modern Family Star Is Emancipated : People.com
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05/15/2015 AT 06:20 PM EDT is officially an emancipated minor. star announced the end to her years-long custody drama Friday. "I'm really lucky I have an amazing support system and lovely people in my life who have given me the support and guidance to have been given this wonderful opportunity," she The 17-year-old also gave a shout-out to in 2012 after the Department of Children and Family Services of her mom Chrisoula Workman I am now officially emancipated!!! I'm really lucky I have an amazing support system and lovely people in my life… http://t.co/lJtlpGoEYc Workman fought the court's decision until last May, when she just before the mother and daughter would have gone to trial. "Most importantly, I want to thank @shanelle_gray and my father or their special support regarding this matter, I really couldn't have done it without them," Ariel Tweeted on Friday. "Thank you to all of my family, friends, and fans who have supported me through all of my endeavors in life, and have encouraged me. Thank you for making my life so special! I can't wait to embark on my new adventures." Last weekend, Ariel paid tribute to her sister with a sweet Mother's Day Instagram. "Without your love and support," she wrote, "I wouldn't have become the person I am today." In April, the actress's TV mom, , told PEOPLE how proud she is to have watched Ariel grow up on the show. "I love those kids. Ariel is just wonderful, and she can do anything," . "They’re all just such good kids in real life."
"Thank you to all of my family, friends, and fans who have supported me through all of my endeavors in life, and have encouraged me," she said
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49ers’ Blake Bell has road map for transition to playing tight end
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Photo: Darron Cummings / Associated Press Blake Bell played bas ketball and base ball also. Blake Bell played bas ketball and base ball also. Owen Daniels, then with the Texans, scores against the Chargers’ Jahleel Addae in a 2013 game. Daniels says playing multiple sports growing up helped his transition to the tight end position. Owen Daniels, then with the Texans, scores against the Chargers’... 49ers’ Blake Bell has road map for transition to playing tight end Rookie tight end Blake Bell smiled when posed the question Friday: Have his new teammates on the 49ers already asked him to show off his right arm? “Yeah, they asked me jokingly when I got here, ‘Can you still throw?’” Bell said. That’s an odd question to ask a tight end, but Bell has taken a strange path to Santa Clara. The fourth-round pick grew up as a quarterback, played the position for his first three seasons at Oklahoma and arrives in the NFL after making 16 catches last year in his lone season at tight end. The 49ers’ 10-man draft class is populated with projects, but Bell might have the steepest learning curve: a converted quarterback feeling his way through still-foreign territory at the highest level? Is there any evidence this actually can work? The evidence: Denver tight end Owen Daniels. Daniels, 32, is a nine-year veteran who has set a promising precedent for the rare road Bell is traveling. Like Bell, Daniels, 32, was a Division I quarterback (Wisconsin) who switched to tight end in college and entered the NFL as a fourth-round project. Daniels is winding down a career that has included two Pro Bowl berths and 433 career receptions, fifth among active tight ends. In looking back, Daniels said the most challenging aspect of his switch was blocking. His quarterback training was of no use when it came to using proper technique against industrial-size linemen. However, he believes his background also proved beneficial. Daniels, who began playing quarterback in eighth grade, was accustomed to doing sleuth work when he surveyed defenses. And that has served him well during an NFL career that has included four 50-catch seasons. Daniels made the switch a bit earlier in his college career, after his redshirt-freshman season, and played one season at wide receiver and two years at tight end. “Just being able to recognize defenses, recognize coverages, knowing where to look to get a hint of what might happen — that was all very useful,” Daniels said in a phone interview. “Things change faster in the NFL than they do in college, but seeing the defense pre-snap, knowing how it might change, and knowing to make adjustments based on that information on the run ... it’s been a big help in my career.” Daniels believes his diverse athletic background helped him make the transition, and Bell shares his multisport resume. Daniels (6-foot-3, 245 pounds) also played basketball and was a long jumper at Naperville (Ill.) Central High. He grew up playing different positions in football, including running back, before becoming a full-time quarterback in junior high. Bell (6-6, 252) played basketball and baseball at Bishop Carroll Catholic High in Wichita, Kan., and was selected in the 43rd round of the 2010 MLB draft as a pitcher. He also played wide receiver for one season in high school and rushed for 24 touchdowns in his first two college seasons as a quarterback in short-yardage packages. “Being a well-rounded athlete really helped,” Daniels said. “Basketball helped out with footwork, and short-space quickness and being able to separate from defenders. The track helped out with the speed and running form. I was fortunate that I was involved in those sports that involved route-running and being able to catch the ball.” Bell changed positions later in his college career, partly because he had success as a quarterback. In 2013, he made eight starts and completed 140 of 233 passes for 1,648 yards with 12 touchdowns and five interceptions. He moved to tight end when it was clear that Trevor Knight would be the Sooners’ quarterback in 2014. In contrast, Daniels was encouraged to switch positions by Barry Alvarez, then Wisconsin’s head coach. As a redshirt freshman, Daniels had come off the bench and completed 2 of 6 passes for 7 yards with two interceptions. His passer rating: minus-20.6. “I was not aware that a quarterback rating could go below zero,” Daniels said. “I’ve got to hold some type of record. I try not to think about that too much.” Bell has Daniels beat when it comes to their college-quarterback resumes, but he has plenty of work to do when it comes to matching Daniels’ NFL accomplishments. Bell’s education began in earnest last week when rookies joined the team for practices in advance of their three-day rookie minicamp, which began Saturday. On Friday, Bell said he’d received some tutoring from tight end Vernon Davis, 31, a nine-year veteran. “Vernon took me through different routes and how he does it, and how he sees it,” Bell said. “He was watching me and telling me the correct stuff. (All the tight ends have) been a great help, and I’m just excited to keep moving forward and keep learning.” For his part, Daniels said he’s willing to share his knowledge with Bell when the 49ers pay a preseason visit to Denver in August, jokingly pledging to “tell him all my secrets.” Daniels hopes the youngest member of their small fraternity upholds the tradition of success. “I always see who is coming out at the tight-end position (in the draft) and know a little bit about their history,” Daniels said. “So I know a little bit about the kid. I’m pulling for him. I’m hoping he does well.” Eric Branch is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: ebranch@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @Eric_Branch
The fourth-round pick grew up as a quarterback, played the position for his first three seasons at Oklahoma and arrives in the NFL after making 16 catches last year in his lone season at tight end. The 49ers’ 10-man draft class is populated with projects, but Bell might have the steepest learning curve: a converted quarterback feeling his way through still-foreign territory at the highest level? Daniels, 32, is a nine-year veteran who has set a promising precedent for the rare road Bell is traveling. Like Bell, Daniels, 32, was a Division I quarterback (Wisconsin) who switched to tight end in college and entered the NFL as a fourth-round project. Daniels is winding down a career that has included two Pro Bowl berths and 433 career receptions, fifth among active tight ends. [...] that has served him well during an NFL career that has included four 50-catch seasons. Daniels made the switch a bit earlier in his college career, after his redshirt-freshman season, and played one season at wide receiver and two years at tight end. Things change faster in the NFL than they do in college, but seeing the defense pre-snap, knowing how it might change, and knowing to make adjustments based on that information on the run ... it’s been a big help in my career. Daniels believes his diverse athletic background helped him make the transition, and Bell shares his multisport resume. Bell (6-6, 252) played basketball and baseball at Bishop Carroll Catholic High in Wichita, Kan., and was selected in the 43rd round of the 2010 MLB draft as a pitcher. Bell changed positions later in his college career, partly because he had success as a quarterback. In 2013, he made eight starts and completed 140 of 233 passes for 1,648 yards with 12 touchdowns and five interceptions. “I was not aware that a quarterback rating could go below zero,” Daniels said.
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Hewlett-Packard shares more info on its business separation plans
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Breaking up may be hard to do, but for Hewlett-Packard it’s apparently a necessity for the company to streamline its business. In an earnings call for HP’s second quarter report for 2015, CEO Meg Whitman wasted no time to give analysts an update on the tech titan’s efforts to split up its business into two separate companies. One company, to be named Hewlett-Packard Enterprise, will focus on selling technology like servers and data center gear to businesses. The other, to be called HP Inc., will sell printers and personal computers. “Today I’m more convinced than ever that this is the right thing to do,” Whitman said as she proceeded to explain that the total dis-synergies—a fancy word for costs—for the separation will equate to $400 million to $450 million “divided equally between the two companies.” “As separate companies, we will have a sharper focus on the markets we serve,” Whitman said. As a whole, HP HPQ took in $25.5 billion in revenue during the second quarter of 2015 compared to the $27.3 billion it raked in the previous year during the same time period. Breaking it down by segment, however, it’s clear to see that HP’s enterprise business has a lot more momentum going for it rather than its PC and printer business. While the revenue from HP’s enterprise group dropped to $6.56 billion from $6.63 the previous year partly due to a decline in the company’s storage and networking products, its industry standard servers saw $3.12 billion in revenue compared to the $2.83 billion it generated in 2014 during the same time period. HP’s lineup of industry standard servers, also known as commodity servers, promise businesses more customizable hardware that they can use in their data centers to take on specific tasks like data processing or networking. HP’s printing and personal systems group, which includes PCs and printers, shrunk to $13.19 billion in the second quarter of 2015 from the $14.01 billion it took in 2014 during the same three-month time period. Whitman said that the PC market was weaker than she expected at the beginning of the year, so it’s hard to see that segment taking off anytime soon. By splintering off these two different business segments, HP stands to create two different companies in which one seems to be on an upward slope, especially if the market for commodity servers continues to increase. It’s the same trend Intel INTC appears to be seeing, in which the demand for more customizable data center hardware is something worth betting a company’s bottom line on. Of course, separating HP into two companies doesn’t come cheap, as shown by the $400 million to $450 million HP stands to lose during the split. But the company is hoping that its cost-cutting efforts, like the 55,000 jobs HP plans to eliminate by the end of 2015, will help offset that number. HP executive vice president and CFO Cathie Lesjak even indicated that the creation of “two new efficient” companies will present “significant opportunities for cost reductions.” I’ll leave it up to you to decide if that translates to more layoffs. For more on HP, check out the following video:
On an earnings call, CEO Meg Whitman gave analysts an update on HP's efforts to split its business into two separate companies.
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Josie Duggar's Febrile Seizures Will Stop at 10 : People.com
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Josie Duggar of 19 Kids and Counting 05/19/2015 AT 10:05 PM EDT It's been an eventful season of However, there was one moment which stood in stark contrast to the rest of the season – when Josie, 5, revealed during Tuesday's finale of , though, it's expected that Josie will one day outgrow her seizures. "All of Josie's seizures have happened around a fever – normally an ear infection," he said during the aftershow special. "Typically, children will outgrow these by the time they're 10. "So, hopefully, she will just get bigger and stronger and outgrow it," he added. "One in every 25 children will have at least one febrile seizure," according to the , and the vast majority of febrile seizures are "short and harmless" though undoubtedly frightening for the parents. Josie did not have an easy time coming into this world. suffered from pre-eclampsia during her pregnancy and underwent an emergency cesarean section to save Josie's life, as well as her own. The youngest of Michelle and Jim Bob's children was born at just 25 weeks and weighed in at 1 lb., 6 oz. The seizure Josie experienced as shown on in an April episode was the "fourth or fifth" she'd had. Therefore, older brother James, 13, knew what he was seeing when he asked Josie a question and she didn't respond and instead just sat there, staring, before her body began to jerk. Michelle, 48, and Jim Bob, 49, were out of town at the time, and James rushed to Jana for help. The situation was so grave that director Scott Enlow even jumped in to assist a tearful Jana while they awaited paramedics. "One of the little glitches for Josie is that if she runs a fever, she does have the tendency to have febrile seizures," explained Michelle during the episode. "It might happen just like that; she'll spike a temp when you least expect it, and she'll have a seizure."
During the finale of 19 Kids, the Duggar patriarch eased concerns about Josie's health
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Good Old Reliable Nathan
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There is a day toward the close of summer when the light is suddenly autumnal. September 21 may be weeks away, but that bluing of the air tells us, more surely than any calendar, that fall has come. There is another day, in winter, when the sky rejects darkness and stays pale in the late afternoon. Six weeks or more of snow may follow, but no matter: spring has been announced. Old years end prematurely too. The real 1980 died around December 26 with the tossing out of the Christmas wrappings and the putting away of anticipation; the week that followed was not so much time lived as relived. We read about the people, the places, the events that made news. Television showed us once more the winning pass, the losing volley. Critics proclaimed the best and the worst. Politicians confided their if-onlys, and the dead were brought out for a second, brief wake. Maybe one of the reasons we welcome the new year is because it marks the end of the retrospective, that perpetual replay of what came to seem a very dated film. Still, there is something reassuring about the notion that 12 months can be tied up and filed for further reference. It confers the illusion that one has gotten the world into some kind of order. There is a more important reason, however, to welcome this day, and it has to do with taking a gamble. How else explain mankind's stubborn refusal to bow to flood, fire and our own excesses except to assume that there's a Nathan Detroit in every one of us? Here it comes, we say - another roll of the dice, another horse that owes us money, another chance, another year.
There is a day toward the close of summer when the light is suddenly autumnal. September 21 may be weeks away, but that bluing of the air tells us, more surely than any calendar, that fall has come.
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Paperback Talk - NYTimes.com
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Microbooks. If you like to read, a just-published paperback offers some ideas to boggle your mind: - By the end of this decade, books as we now know them will be replaced by silicon microchips similar to the one pictured to the left. The contents of a whole library may be stored on a collection of chips occupying a space the size of one of today's paperbacks. - Because the raw-material and distribution costs of these microchip books will be quite low, a popular novel will sell for approximately 20 cents. This will increase the number of book buyers and readers. - Bookstores will become obsolescent, as buyers of microbooks obtain them directly from their publishers, at first by mail in small envelopes, later through instantaneous transmission by cable or microwave. - To read a microchip book, it will be necessary to use a terminal with a reading screen available in various sizes and styles. For the person reading a long work, there will be a terminal approximately the size of a present-day book. For the person who wishes to consult a work quickly for reference purposes, there will be a wrist-sized terminal. For the person who likes to read in bed, there will be a terminal that can project the text on the ceiling above. The microchips, each containing a book or set of books, can be interchanged between terminals. - You find pleasure in the look and feel of a well-designed, wellmade 1981-style book? The microchip book will afford compensatory satisfactions. For example, there'll be terminals bound in leather with gold clasps and screens elegantly framed and mounted. These are typical of the many predictions made by Christopher Evans in ''The Micro Millennium'' (Pocket Books/Washington Square Press, $3.50). According to Dr. Evans, a British computer scientist who died just after completing the book, the world is on the brink of a computer revolution that will change our lives more rapidly and drastically than the Industrial Revolution did. During the years 1983-90, he foresees not only the death of the book as we now know it, but the disappearance of money and a decline of the professions - medicine, law, education, finance. How seriously should all this be taken? When ''The Micro Millennium'' came out in hardcover last year, the more cautious scientist-reviewers said that ''it just might happen and certainly should be thought about,'' while the most enthusiastic hailed it as ''the most important book in decades.'' Moving up. For the past two years, with only a few off-weeks, a trade paperback bearing a most curious title has claimed a place on our best-seller list - a run exceeded only by ''The Joy of Sex.'' ''What Color Is Your Parachute?'' deals with another perennial concern - that of finding a job if you're just starting out or of changing your career if you're in mid-life and fed up with what you're doing. ''What Color'' started out as a typescript manual that Richard Nelson Bolles, a California Episcopal minister, wrote and published in the late 60's to help the many clergymen who, like himself, had found themselves without jobs and were looking for new careers. Word of mouth created such a demand for it that in 1972 little Ten Speed Press of Berkeley, Calif., brought it out as a book, crowded with down-to-earth advice, odd illustrations and challenging games for the reader to play by himself. It won such universal approval in the nation's career-counseling establishment that Mr. Bolles is now something of a guru in the field. The sales of ''What Color Is Your Parachute?'' total more than 1,300,000 copies, 300,000 of them in the last year. The job situation keeps changing, and to keep up with it Mr. Bolles revises his book annually. The latest edition, due out at the end of this month, reflects the mood of 1981. Now, more than ever, it emphasizes, it's important to take careful stock of your own abilities and ambitions in order to match them to the opportunities available. A mature person is well advised to find a new job or career before quitting his old one. The most effective way of finding a job is to join one of the ''job-hunting clubs'' that are springing up in all parts of the country. Meanwhile, Ten Speed Press has another how-to manual in the works that it thinks is attuned to the spirit of these go-getting times. Early next fall it will publish ''The Student Entrepreneur's Guide'' by Brett Kingstone, a senior at Stanford University. For several years, Mr. Kingstone has been crisscrossing the country, tracking down fascinating and presumably inspiring stories of men and women who started their journeys on the road to business success while they were still in high school and college. His manuscript is reported to have already caused quite a stir on the Palo Alto campus. Oops. Gremlins fiddled with our recent account of the life of Carlos Castaneda. Richard de Mille's research, as reported in ''The Don Juan Papers'' (Ross-Erikson), indicates that he was born Carlos Arana in Peru 55 years ago.
Microbooks. If you like to read, a just-published paperback offers some ideas to boggle your mind: - By the end of this decade, books as we now know them will be replaced by silicon microchips similar to the one pictured to the left. The contents of a whole library may be stored on a collection of chips occupying a space the size of one of today's paperbacks. - Because the raw-material and distribution costs of these microchip books will be quite low, a popular novel will sell for approximately 20 cents. This will increase the number of book buyers and readers.
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IT'S TIME TO ACT ON FIRE SAFETY...
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ONCE again, fire has devastated a structure that met the code requirements, leaving a trail of death and suffering in its wake. How many more people have to die before the value of automatic sprinklers is recognized? I am afraid that it will take a catastrophe that snuffs out the lives of a public figure and his family. This will probably be the case, for, if action is not taken in the next several weeks to remedy this classic case of negligence, the impetus again will have been lost and more people will have died. Each time a fire takes a large number of lives, a fresh cry arises from the public and its elected officials, as though such a thing had never happened before. The politicians swear solemn oaths to avenge the dead and reach new heights of fire safety. Each tragedy is treated as though fire was just invented. Let us gain an insight into this by taking a look at some of the historic junctures in fire protection. It took the Chicago Fire - the one attributed to Mrs. O'Leary's cow - to cause public officials to take a close look at the need for building codes and fire-safe construction. In 1911, immigrant girls working in the crowded Triangle Shirtwaist sweatshop in New York City died because the exits were locked. It took that tragedy to change conditions that were horrible and painfully obvious. The latter part of 1942 brought the deaths of 492 people in the fiery depths of the Coconut Grove, a nightclub in Boston. Fireresistive decorations existed at that time, but were not used, and regulations limiting occupancy were in effect. Why did death have to act once again as the stimulus for progress? The same sad commentary can be made time and again. For example, 1946 was a bad year for hotels; in 1959, 95 children died in a school fire. Don't even mention 1980. In light of recent events, one glaring fact stands out: Stupidity, greed and special interests have a greater sway in our society than a sincere respect for human life. While serving in Vietnam, I remember thinking how nice it was to come from a country that placed great value on the life on an individual. I now wonder whether my beliefs were falsely held. How can the money saved by not installing a sprinkler be weighed against a human life? Sprinklers were first used in New England mills in the late 1870's. They have performed a yeoman service over the years, compiling a long-term failure rate of less than four in every 100 operations. Insurance companies have long shown their favor for the devices by allowing a healthy reduction in premiums for their installation. Why must innocent people continue to be sacrificed to the penurious malevolence of noncaring politicians and interest groups? The time for action is now. In many cases, an aroused populace has played a major role in helping to expedite the approval of regulations requiring smoke detectors in a wide range of occupancies. Let us now press on to the goal of demanding sprinklers in those structures that cry out for them: nursing homes, hospitals, high-rise buildings and any others with the potential for fire death. (The California Legislature has even mandated residential sprinklers for certain classes of new construction.) Let us go beyond what I found in a nursing home one evening when I paused to take note of the posted instructions for use in the event of fire. On the wall was a large, hand-lettered sign that said: ''In the event of fire, go to your room and wait for the firemen to rescue you.'' How in God's name can that be justified in a facility housing more than 100 elderly women, a building without sprinklers and having bars on the street-level windows? What good are modern devices if they are not used? The key is retroactivity. We must hound our elected officials to enact legislation mandating not only the installation of sprinkers in new construction, but also requiring the retro-fitting of existing structures. That is the real issue: retroactivity. Let us scream bloody murder, because that is what now occurs as a result of the absence of automatic sprinklers. If an owner says that the existing code was met, then let the code be changed for the better - before I or my family perish in someone else's fire.
ONCE again, fire has devastated a structure that met the code requirements, leaving a trail of death and suffering in its wake. How many more people have to die before the value of automatic sprinklers is recognized? I am afraid that it will take a catastrophe that snuffs out the lives of a public figure and his family. This will probably be the case, for, if action is not taken in the next several weeks to remedy this classic case of negligence, the impetus again will have been lost and more people will have died.
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CONSOLIDATION COAL IN AUSTRALIA PACT
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PITTSBURGH, Aug., 31— The Consolidated Coal Company, the Pittsburgh-based subsidiary of the Continental Oil Company, said it has agreed to buy a 49 percent interest in an Australian coal concern for an undisclosed price. The transaction is subject to Australian Government approval. The company, Golin Wallsend, owns an underground mine and underdeveloped reserves in the New South Wales. The mine, Gunneday Colliery at Gunneday, produced 420,000 tons of coal for steam and coking coal export markets. In June,Consolidation signed a long-term lease with one of West Germany's largest mining companies, Rheinbraun, for the development of up to five underground mines in southwestern Pennsylvania.
The Consolidated Coal Company, the Pittsburgh-based subsidiary of the Continental Oil Company, said it has agreed to buy a 49 percent interest in an Australian coal concern for an undisclosed price.
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A TRANQUIL RETREAT IN LOWER AUSTRIA
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JULIE V. IOVINE is a writer who lives in New Haven. By JULIE V.IOVINE My husband wanted me to see Austria, a country that he knows well. But where should we stay? Vienna, the capital, was our first choice, but Vienna, we soon discovered, was prohibitively expensive. Then he remembered Waidhofen an der Ybbs, a small market town in Lower Austria where he had once stopped for a cup of coffee. With its 15thcentury buildings and riverside setting, Waidhofen seemed to merit a longer visit. Since it also had moderately-priced hotels - about $25 a night, as compared to $80 to $100 in Vienna - and was within commuting distance of the capital, the time for that longer visit seemed to have come. As it happened, we spent three weeks in Waidhofen. And not only did we make day trips to Vienna - and to other Austrian cities - but we also had time to fall into the rhythm of life in a provincial Austrian town, dividing our days among sightseeing, swimming, bicycling and cafes. Waidhofen lies hidden in the Ybbs River valley, about midway between the Danube and the Alps. It is about 100 miles southwest of Vienna, a distance that can be translated into roughly two hours by express train (with a change to a local at Amstetten), or an hour or less by highway. We arrived in Waidhofen by rail at about 10 at night, and were met, by prearrangement, by the town's only taxicab driver. Our inn, the Goldner Hirsch, was in the heart of town, only a few hundred yards from a 15th-century church and a gothic castle. The town (and its 6,000 inhabitants) appeared to be fast asleep. Only a few lights were strung up across the street; we could see little in the darkness, but we could hear the Ybbs and smell the country air. The scene was livelier at the Goldner Hirsch, where the owners, the Schonhubers, were playing cards with friends. We joined them for a beer, then went upstairs to our room. The Goldner Hirsch may date back as far as the 16th century. Its simple two-story facade is painted yellow and its wrought iron gate and heavy wooden doors stand wide open in welcome. The interior has been remodeled in the standard Gasthaus style, with polyurethanecoated woodwork, figured wallpaper, plaid curtains. There are 19 rooms; ours, on the second landing, was spacious, with a double window opening out on a view of the surrounding hills. There was a fully-appointed bathroom with plenty of towels and hot water. When we descended for breakfast at 7 the next morning, we found the eight-table dining room (a larger one is opened up on busy days) crowded with local farmers sopping up goulash with hunks of bread or draining liter-size glasses of beer. Dirndl-clad market women brought in armfuls of wildflowers and the baker arrived with fresh bread. We breakfasted on coffee and hard rolls with butter and jam, then set out to explore the town. Waidhofen consists of an Upper and Lower Main Square, which are actually two parallel avenues, connected at the center of town by a short, steep street called Hoher Markt. The Lower Main Square slopes down to the main roadway out of town. The facades of its 40 or so buildings, two or three stories high, are continuous, interrupted here and there by an arcade or by a narrow passageway. Individual establishments are painted in creamy yellow or subdued shades of blue or rose, with green-and-white striped doors. Red geraniums decorate the upper windows of the two cafes, and the street is lively with shoppers carrying baskets loaded with provisions or flowers. A watchtower, visible from afar, stands at the top of Hoher Markt. The tower, a Waidhofen landmark, was built to commemorate the Turkish assault of the town in 1532; one of the four faces of its clock is permanently set at 11:45, the hour and minute that the Turks were defeated. The square is lined with such small businesses as a bicycle shop and a notions store; there is a 17th-century column dedicated to the Virgin and yet another canopied cafe. The onion-domed church, begun in 1470, fills one whole end of the street. The late-Gothic church has three naves of equal height; the interior is lighted by narrow stained glass windows, and there are four baroque side chapels and a baroque lady chapel. Some of the tombstones and memorial plaques embedded in the walls are four or five centuries old, and might make fine rubbings. The neighborhood castle stands immediately behind the church, surrounded on three sides by the river, which flows around it like a moat - the other side is protected by a stone wall and spiked iron fences. The castle is now a state forestry school, not open to the public. We usually began our days in Waidhofen with a stroll about town. At about 11, in accordance with local custom, we would stop off in a cafe for coffee and pastries. Sitting around in cafes for an hour or two a day is a part of Austrian life; a return visit about 4 and, quite possibly another around 6, is usual. We did our best to try out every Waidhofen cafe, and sampled five in the central part of town alone. My favorite was Cafe Hartner on the Upper Main Square, with its striped yellow awning, coffee piled high with whipped cream, rich chocolate Sachertorte and marzipan potatoes dusted with cocoa. Its competitor on the Lower Main Square, Cafe Piaty, augments its offerings of cream puffs and pastries with a folk museum. The museum, installed in nine rooms on the cafe's second floor, contains handcarved peasant furniture, ceramics, religious pictures and handcrafts; it is open, free, upon request.
JULIE V. IOVINE is a writer who lives in New Haven. By JULIE V.IOVINE My husband wanted me to see Austria, a country that he knows well. But where should we stay? Vienna, the capital, was our first choice, but Vienna, we soon discovered, was prohibitively expensive. Then he remembered Waidhofen an der Ybbs, a small market town in Lower Austria where he had once stopped for a cup of coffee. With its 15thcentury buildings and riverside setting, Waidhofen seemed to merit a longer visit. Since it also had moderately-priced hotels - about $25 a night, as compared to $80 to $100 in Vienna - and was within commuting distance of the capital, the time for that longer visit seemed to have come. As it happened, we spent three weeks in Waidhofen. And not only did we make day trips to Vienna - and to other Austrian cities - but we also had time to fall into the rhythm of life in a provincial Austrian town, dividing our days among sightseeing, swimming, bicycling and cafes.
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1918 WAS NOT THE YEAR OF POLAND'S
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The front page of The Times of Nov. 12 states: ''Poland Rehabilitates a Date, Celebrating Its 1918 Rebirth.'' But Poland was not reborn on Nov. 11, 1918. On that day it was still occupied by German troops, and its future was very uncertain. President Wilson even chose as the new President of Poland the pianist Ignace Paderewski. He also created a Polish army from among the sons of American and Canadian families and provided that army with a Polish general named Haller. Since the American and Canadian boys recruited for the Polish army were green kids, President Wilson sent to Poland 250 American soldiers still stationed in France to train those raw recruits. I was one of those soldiers. In the meantime, a Polish general named Pilsudski had organized his own army from Polish soldiers who had been discharged from the Russian, German and Austrian armies at the end of the war. When the American soldiers arrived in Warsaw about May 1919, they found two Polish armies, one led by General Pilsudski and the other by General Haller, encamped in different areas, with each wondering which one should be in control of the new Poland. That meant that Warsaw was left as an open city. Eventually Pilsudski and Paderewski agreed upon a compromise, with General Pilsudski becoming the first President of the new Poland and Paderewski becoming its first Prime Minister. That occurred sometime in the summer of 1919, and I believe that date should be the appropriate date for the rebirth of present-day Poland. JOHN BONFORTE Colorado Springs, Nov. 19, 1981
REBIRTHTo the Editor: The front page of The Times of Nov. 12 states: ''Poland Rehabilitates a Date, Celebrating Its 1918 Rebirth.'' But Poland was not reborn on Nov. 11, 1918. On that day it was still occupied by German troops, and its future was very uncertain.
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BOOKS OF THE TIMES
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By Anatole Broyard THE LONE PILGRIM. By Laurie Colwin. 211 pages. Knopf. $9.95. IN ''Happy All the Time,'' her recent novel, Laurie Colwin wrote about successful love, that grand surprise. In ''The Lone Pilgrim,'' her new collection of stories, she writes about some of the unsuccessful aspects. ''Love, in its initial stages,'' a character says, ''takes care of everything.'' After that, the lovers discover that it is they themselves who have to take care of everything. Love, Miss Colwin reminds us, involves an immense amount of trouble. It is, in both a positive and a negative sense, a disturbance of the peace. Some years ago, Denis de Rougemont wrote a very good book called ''Love in the Western World.'' In ''The Lone Pilgrim,'' Laurie Colwin is writing a fictional anatomy of love that is confined to America now. De Maupassant and Colette come to mind, also La Rochefoucauld and Vauvenargues, for Miss Colwin has a flair for aphorism. ''Fulfillment,'' she writes, ''leaves an empty space where your old self used to be.'' Of two lovers married to other people, she observes: ''They would never have love's greatest luxury: time. They would never own anything in common or travel together.'' ''A love affair is like a shot arrow,'' a character says. ''It gives life an intense direction, if only for an instant.'' Simplicity of Adultery In a story called ''Sentimental Memory,'' a happily married woman meets with a former lover and with a despairing insight: ''I was, I discovered, capable of adultery.'' One is tempted to ask: if love doesn't protect you against love, what hope is there for the world? Quite a few women in ''The Lone Pilgrim'' discover that they are capable of adultery, and Miss Colwin seems to be writing a muchneeded catechism for them. Sometimes adultery is as simple as breathing, and sometimes it is as simple as dying. ''Someone is going to get cheated on,'' one married lover says to another. Who will it be: them, or the people they are married to? Does one get ''used to the condition of longing''? Should love be ''an education in yearning''? We recognize some of Miss Colwin's people: The selfish pseudolover, for example, in ''The Smile Beneath the Smile.'' ''What he wanted,'' the woman who is stuck with him says, ''was a quick hit of pure spirit, an emotional recharge that made him feel connected with the rest of his species.'' Then there is a woman of 31, twice divorced, who has gone to Ireland to brood over her mistakes. She meets an Irish college boy who is ideally, impossibly, in love with a Botticelli-like Italian girl. In her bitterness, she says, ''I wanted to seduce him and streak him with confusion and disorder as clearly as a disappointed lover mutilates a tree with the initials of the girl who turned him down.'' ''A Girl Skating'' is a curious study of an adolescent girl who is the unwilling object of a famous middle-aged poet's obsession. She can hardly move without finding that movement immortalized in a poem. She feels that the poet is robbing her of her youth by articulating it better than she herself can. One or two stories are about the taxonomy of love: should it be a grand event or something to live with? If love brings out your ''best self,'' how long can you tolerate that self? Why is love too rich for some people's blood? Experiences in Common Some of Miss Colwin's images are striking, and strikingly sad, in the way that images in modern stories tend to be. In ''Travel,'' a couple who married relatively late in life travel incessantly in a desperate attempt to build up a reservoir of common experience, something about which they can have an ''exclusive understanding.'' One of the prettiest - and again, the saddest - images in ''The Lone Pilgrim'' is of a young woman and the man she loves, who is afraid to marry her. As they sit in the bathtub together, she reads to him Sir Thomas Wyatt's poem ''They Flee From Me, That Sometime Did Me Seek.'' An author who can conjure an image like that is worth reading. ''The Lone Pilgrim'' is ''an education in yearning.'' It is a reminder that most of us, whether we do it or not, ''are capable of adultery.'' Miss Colwin's book is itself a love affair, and as another of her characters says, ''A love affair will teach anyone with sense a thing or two about esthetics.'' Illustrations: Photo of Laurie Colwin
By Anatole Broyard THE LONE PILGRIM. By Laurie Colwin. 211 pages. Knopf. $9.95. IN ''Happy All the Time,'' her recent novel, Laurie Colwin wrote about successful love, that grand surprise. In ''The Lone Pilgrim,'' her new collection of stories, she writes about some of the unsuccessful aspects. ''Love, in its initial stages,'' a character says, ''takes care of everything.'' After that, the lovers discover that it is they themselves who have to take care of everything. Love, Miss Colwin reminds us, involves an immense amount of trouble. It is, in both a positive and a negative sense, a disturbance of the peace.
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The Waldheim Waltz
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There's a touch of Sartre's ''No Exit'' in the affair. Fifteen fatigued members of the Security Council sit voting and voting for a United Nations Secretary General - with no result. Their best hope for release now is a looming deadline, Dec. 31, when Kurt Waldheim's second term expires. It's our guess that a winner will emerge at the last moment, if not Mr. Waldheim then a third-world clone of him. Not an enthralling prospect, but realistic. Mr. Waldheim has asked to be removed from the balloting but not from consideration. It was the only decent thing to do; the real strength of other candidates deserves to be tested, beginning with the only declared rival, Salim Salim of Tanzania. But Mr. Waldheim clearly believes that he can still advance by thus stepping aside. If so, the Council could assuage his rivals by halving his five-year term. Two circumstances argue for the Austrian diplomat. In an act of rare harmony, Washington and Moscow both support him, and those are big votes. He won them by taking care never to surprise and rarely to offend. The other cause for renaming him is that once freed from running for the office, he might finally stand taller in it while a consensus builds for a successor. Mr. Salim is a worthy contender. He exudes reasonableness and tact, enough to hold the support of black Africa, including Tanzania's wary neighbor, Kenya. But Washington considers him a bloc candi-date, too much beholden to the third-world anti-American lobby. He would surely be vetoed in any case by the Soviet Union, if only to block a candidate championed by China. The United States representative, Jeane Kirkpatrick, evidently yearns to play a Latin American card. But open sponsorship of a Mexican, Argentine or Peruvian would rouse Soviet suspicion and offend black Africa. And the Aga Khan, Prince Sadruddin, the former High Commissioner for Refugees, is triply handicapped: French-born, Harvard-educated and an Iranian national. The deadlock dramatizes many of the world organization's infirmities: unseemly haggling among blocs and ideologies, all to find a Secretary General who can equivocate artfully. The process simply cannot produce a commanding figure - someone like Canada's Pierre Trudeau, who would be too activist for Americans, too Western for the Russians and too cosmopolitan for third-worlders. The United Nations functions not as a parliament of man or even an arbiter among governments. It is at most an international traffic court, handing out an occasional summons and imposing a modest reprimand. Its redeeming value is that it can shame some offenders to explain their conduct before a representative jury. For a presiding magistrate, the U.N. will have to make do with Kurt Waldheim, or a facsimile.
There's a touch of Sartre's ''No Exit'' in the affair. Fifteen fatigued members of the Security Council sit voting and voting for a United Nations Secretary General - with no result. Their best hope for release now is a looming deadline, Dec. 31, when Kurt Waldheim's second term expires. It's our guess that a winner will emerge at the last moment, if not Mr. Waldheim then a third-world clone of him. Not an enthralling prospect, but realistic.
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PRO-REAGAN DEMOCRAT REFLECTS HEART OF CONGRESS
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ROSCOE, Tex., July 2— One treads carefully in this part of the world, if only because the annual rattlesnake roundup in the area last spring produced 45,000 rattlers, which were brought, squirming, in burlap bags and 50-gallon trash cans to a pit in the Nolan County Coliseum, where they were milked of their venom, skinned, fried and eaten. Most politicians here also proceed with a wary step, and Representative Charles W. Stenholm is nothing if not cautious. An example is the Democratic Congressman's effort to help Roscoe, a farming community of 1,151 people 50 miles west of Abilene, where 21 inches of rain fell in one week last September. The flooding inundated an open sewage-treatment plant in a dammed-in site in a cotton field. The dam crumbled, sewer pipes backed up, and the entire community became dependent on 14 portable toilets. Roscoe petitioned Washington for a grant of $3 million to rebuild its sewage plant and repair streets damaged by the flooding. ''It's fiscally impossible for us to finance some of the changes we've got to have,'' said Mayor B.P. Cain. ''We're already taxed to the limit.'' Going After the Aid The Mayor is a part-time employee in the district office of Representative Stenholm, who is the organizer and coordinator of the House's 47-member Conservative Democratic Forum. The Congressman played a key role in persuading conservative Democrats to support President Reagan's budget, which cut $38.2 billion from current spending policy. The cuts focused on social programs, including those that aid localities. Mr. Stenholm visited Roscoe in the 10-day Fourth of July recess to remind its citizens that he was pressing their case in Washington. ''I'm not opposed to aid to the cities,'' the Congressman said after addressing the Lions Club. ''I'm not for abolishing the Federal Government's involvement in local areas. As long as that program is there, it's my duty to see that the people of the 17th District have equal access if they qualify.'' Although the 42-year-old second-term Congressman is regarded by some in Washington as a doctrinaire conservative, he closely reflects the views and interests of his district in west-central Texas. They call it the ''Big Country,'' a flat, sprawling district of more than 30,000 square miles, a land of oil wells and mesas. The major industries here are oil, farming and ranching; Mr. Stenholm holds predictable views on the Federal role in such areas. He does, however, support government price supports for crops of 65 percent of parity instead of the 100 percent sought by the American Agriculture Movement. Less predictable was his vote for the $3.4 billion Chrysler loan, in which he responded to pressure from scores of automobile dealers in his district. A Mainstream Texas Democrat Politically, Mr. Stenholm is not an aberration but a mainstream Texas Democrat, in the mold of Sam Rayburn and the early Lyndon Johnson. Of the 29 Democrats who supported President Reagan's budget, nine were Texans. Mr. Stenholm's district, historically Democratic because it was settled by Southerners, is as conservative as any Republican district in the nation. Mr. Stenholm's predecessor, Omar Burleson, who like Mr. Stenholm received zero ratings from the liberal group Americans for Democratic Action, held the seat 32 years before retiring. Some constituents originally considered Mr. Stenholm too liberal because he had once managed the Stamford Electric Cooperative, an enterprise considered by some a step toward socialism. At the Texas Cowboy Reunion, the nation's oldest amateur rodeo, held in Stamford this week, some constituents said that they had finally forgiven Mr. Stenholm for what they considered his youthful indiscretion. ''A lot of people ask me why I was supporting a liberal candidate,'' said Bill Longley, his campaign manager who now manages the Congressman's district office. ''I told them, 'Everybody makes a few mistakes when they're young.' '' Towns 'Struggling for Survival' Moving around his district, the young Congressman, a tall, squarejawed cotton farmer, displays a reticence reminiscent of the screen personality of Gary Cooper as he visits small Texas towns like those in the movie ''The Last Picture Show.'' ''There's many a little town in this district that's struggling for survival,'' Mr. Stenholm said. His constituents have watched Mr. Stenholm on the evening news and read about him in news magazines, and they take pride in his celebrity. ''There has been more national focus on the guy from this district in the last two years than there was in the previous 32 years,'' said Richard Seaman, managing editor of The Abilene Reporter-News. The Congressman considers himself as good a Democrat as any in Congress, and points out that unlike some liberals, he campaigned last fall for President Carter. ''Mr. Carter was not popular in this district, and I caught heck,'' the Congressman said. Mr. Reagan carried the district with 55 percent of the vote. 'A Compromising President' The Congressman has not been disappointed. ''I'm glad that we have a President who is representing the interests of the 17th District,'' he said after participating in the rodeo parade at the cowboy reunion, past Carl's Poolroom, Sew Unique, the Country Drug Store and Thompson's Hardware. ''This President has been a compromising President. We have had a give and take. He's been willing to sit down and talk to people who were willing to talk to him.'' Mr. Stenholm said that he had helped modify the budget cuts. ''David Stockman wanted to make wholesale changes in every area,'' he said, referring to the Federal budget director. ''The House was not going to go with the wholesale cleanout of the social programs, and I wasn't going to go for it.'' Mr. Stenholm said that despite his coalition with the Republicans, ''I'm a Democrat, have been a Democrat, and will be a Democrat.'' The reason, he said, was that ''the Democrats have shown a greater concern for the small man, the small farmer, the small businessman. ''We're not out to tear down what's made America great,'' he said of the conservative Democrats. ''But we have slipped into a trend and some of us were fearful that if we didn't do anything, we would hurt what's made America great.'' Whether or not the party listens, the conservative Democrats intend to keep up the pressure. He noted that the conservative Democrats call themselves ''boll weevils,'' and likened their tenacity to that of their namesake. ''You know,'' he told the Lions Club, ''people have been trying to eradicate boll weevils for a long, long time.'' Illustrations: map of Texas Photo of Rep. Charles W. Stenbolm
One treads carefully in this part of the world, if only because the annual rattlesnake roundup in the area last spring produced 45,000 rattlers, which were brought, squirming, in burlap bags and 50-gallon trash cans to a pit in the Nolan County Coliseum, where they were milked of their venom, skinned, fried and eaten. Most politicians here also proceed with a wary step, and Representative Charles W. Stenholm is nothing if not cautious. An example is the Democratic Congressman's effort to help Roscoe, a farming community of 1,151 people 50 miles west of Abilene, where 21 inches of rain fell in one week last September. The flooding inundated an open sewage-treatment plant in a dammed-in site in a cotton field. The dam crumbled, sewer pipes backed up, and the entire community became dependent on 14 portable toilets.
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MARKET PLACE - AN ADVISER'S STRICT CRITERIA - NYTimes.com
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LATE last week, after President Reagan ordered an end to import quotas for shoes, footwear stocks beat a hasty retreat on Wall Street. One shoe issue that fell was Wolverine World Wide, the world's largest tanner of pigskin leather and the maker of casual shoes sold under the trade name of Hush Puppies. While Wolverine's stock price was sliding, from 33 last Tuesday to 29 1/4 yesterday, a New York City money manager named Barry Ziskin took a contrarian view. ''I like that stock,'' he said. His rationale: Wolverine is one of nearly three dozen issues that currently meet Mr. Ziskin's exacting -and undeviating - set of standards for investment. He is president of TOP, the acronym for The Opportunity Prospector, an advisory service that manages $59 million for individuals and pension-fund clients. One criterion for a company to qualify for TOP's list is six consecutive years of at least 10 percent growth annually in pretax operating income. During this same period, moreover, pretax operating income must show a compounded growth rate at a minimum of 20 percent annually, exclusive of acquisitions and divestitures. Notably absent from the current list are popular high-technology issues. A key reason is that qualifying stocks must sell for less than 10 times Mr. Ziskin's estimated earnings for the current fiscal year. ''If the typical high-technology stock puts together six straight years of 20 percent profit increases,'' he observed, ''its ratio often soars to 20 or 30 times earnings.'' Other standards followed by the service also denote a conservative approach. Reported institutional holdings in a stock, for example, must account for less than 10 percent of the total outstanding shares. This serves to provide some protection against heavy liquidation in an issue by some institutions - a process famous on Wall Street for chopping stock prices. In addition, strict standards are applied to working capital, corporate liquidity and accounting procedures. On the latter score, companies are eliminated as candidates if they defer operating expenses or realize revenues prematurely. Thus, the entire research effort is geared to the hope of finding situations with growth potential - and as little apparent risk as possible in the ever-risky business of investing. At present, the money under Mr. Ziskin's management is fully invested in the stock market. ''But if I had new money today, there are stocks I would consider buying,'' he said. ''Wolverine World Wide is one of the stocks.'' What other issues now qualifying under his standards does he consider attractive? The suggested shopping list includes American Standard, Oneida Ltd., the Tokheim Corporation, the Meredith Corporation, Foote, Cone & Belding and Dominion Textile (the largest textile manufacturer in Canada). Each of of these companies has a market capitalization of more than $100 million, which makes them particularly suited for pension-fund accounts under TOP's management. As for smaller companies, current buy suggestions range from Ames Department Stores and Dollar General to Universal Cigar and Aero-Flow Dynamics. Stocks fall out of the qualifying list when they no longer meet the various criteria. Core Industries and Hunt Manufacturing, for example, were dropped this spring after their market prices climbed about the current year's estimate of 10 times earnings. At times, a company name will return to the list when all the guidelines are satisfied. Although his emphasis is on stock selection, Mr. Ziskin, like any other money manager, must have some sense of what he thinks the stock market is apt to do. He envisages the recent pullback in stock prices as continuing over the short term. But, by late summer or early autumn, he believes that prices will be rising again. Why does he expect an upturn? ''I believe that short-term interest rates have peaked and that long-term interest rates are in the process of peaking,'' he replied. ''But even after the signals are in place, there will be a lag period of undetermined length before investors perceive it.'' In July 1979, when the Dow Jones industrial average was hovering at 828, Mr. Ziskin predicted that the Dow, along with other broad market indicators, would sweep to new highs sometime between March 1980 and March 1982. Other leading barometers - for the New York Stock Exchange, the American Stock Exchange and the over-the-counter market - did, in fact, establish records within this two-year period. Meanwhile, Mr. Ziskin still foresees a high for the Dow industrials (the record closing of 1,051.70 was set Jan. 11, 1973) by next March.
LATE last week, after President Reagan ordered an end to import quotas for shoes, footwear stocks beat a hasty retreat on Wall Street. One shoe issue that fell was Wolverine World Wide, the world's largest tanner of pigskin leather and the maker of casual shoes sold under the trade name of Hush Puppies. While Wolverine's stock price was sliding, from 33 last Tuesday to 29 1/4 yesterday, a New York City money manager named Barry Ziskin took a contrarian view. ''I like that stock,'' he said. His rationale: Wolverine is one of nearly three dozen issues that currently meet Mr. Ziskin's exacting -and undeviating - set of standards for investment.
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BONN ARRANGING DATE FOR VISIT BY BREZHNEV THIS YEAR
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BONN, April 6— A West German Government spokesman said today that talks were under way to arrange a date for a visit to Bonn by the Soviet leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev. The visit is expected before the end of the year, he said. At a regular news conference today, Kurt Becker, a Government spokesman, said that Mr. Brezhnev had relayed to Bonn a wish to visit West Germany soon. The visit, he said, would be in response to an invitation from Chancellor Helmut Schmidt when he visited Moscow last July. Mr. Schmidt's invitation was made in the light of an agreement by both countries to continue close contacts, ''particularly in periods of international tension,'' a decision that caused some misunderstanding with the Carter Administration. Mr. Schmidt was the first Western leader to visit Moscow after Soviet troops intervened in Afghanistan. Although Mr. Becker said that he expected the visit to take place this year and that talks were in progress to set a date, a Government official said privately that the visit was not expected before Mr. Schmidt attends the economic summit meeting in July of the major non-Communist industrialized countries in Ottawa. Mr. Schmidt is also scheduled to visit President Reagan on May 20. Mr. Becker said Bonn would confer with its NATO allies on the date of the visit. A Warning on Arms Talks At the same time, Chancellor Schmidt said today that if the United States did not begin talks on arms reduction with the Soviet Union this year, his Government would face domestic trouble and its relations with the Reagan Administration would be seriously burdened. In an interview with a West German daily newspaper that will appear tomorrow, Mr. Schmidt said he expected talks between the United States and the Soviet Union on limiting medium-range nuclear weapons in Europe before late summer. But he was skeptical about whether the talks would lead to entirely satisfying results. If the talks do not take place, Mr. Schmidt said, ''it would not only be more difficult for me domestically, there would then also be difficulties in our relations with the Government of the United States.'' But he added that he ''did not foresee that.'' Mr. Schmidt said that even if talks take place, ''the probability has not increased that every sort of rearmament will be superfluous.'' He pointed out that the Soviet Union had deployed 200 of its SS-20 medium-range missiles, each outfitted with three nuclear warheads able to reach Western Europe, in addition to its singlewarhead SS-4 and SS-5 missiles.
A West German Government spokesman said today that talks were under way to arrange a date for a visit to Bonn by the Soviet leader, Leonid I. Brezhnev. The visit is expected before the end of the year, he said. At a regular news conference today, Kurt Becker, a Government spokesman, said that Mr. Brezhnev had relayed to Bonn a wish to visit West Germany soon. The visit, he said, would be in response to an invitation from Chancellor Helmut Schmidt when he visited Moscow last July.
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POLAND ENFORCES PRICE INCREASES
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GDANSK, Poland, Oct. 5— The Government today brushed aside protests by the independent union Solidarity and put into effect increases in tobacco prices that raised the cost of a pack of high-quality cigare ttes to the equivalent of nearly $2. The action drew angry sp eeches from delegates at the union congress here. The doubling of tobacco prices means that the average Pole will have to work an hour longer to earn enough money to buy a pack of cigarettes. A Government communique early today said that the union's request to suspend the higher prices was ungrounded and impossible for technical reasons. Poland is the world's fourth largest per capita consumer of cigarettes, and the Government said it could earn up to 38 billion zlotys a year, or about $1 billion, from the increased price. The price rise took effect despite protests by Lech Walesa, the union leader, who came under fire at the Solidarity congress for failing to take any action. One delegate, Jan Luzny, a candidate for a spot on Solidarity's national coordinating committee, warned that coal miners in Silesia might strike unless the increases were rescinded. A number of other delegates also raised the possibility of strikes there and on the Baltic coast The Government announced plans for the tobacco price increase Saturday night. It also disclosed plans to raise prices for canned and processed fruit, carp and trout. Delegates at the congress accused Mr. Walesa of inconsistency and said he had weakened the union by making an empty threat when he said last night that the Government had no choice but to back down on the increases.
The Government today brushed aside protests by the independent union Solidarity and put into effect increases in tobacco prices that raised the cost of a pack of high-quality cigare ttes to the equivalent of nearly $2. The action drew angry sp eeches from delegates at the union congress here.
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TEAMSTER DELGATES ELECT WILLIAMS
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LAS VEGAS, Nev.— It was a compelling, often confusing, at times disturbing spectacle: 6,600 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and their wives and guests coming to Las Vegas, city of drink, good times and gambling. Like others who come to this desert city, the teamsters went to lavish parties, ate lobster and platters of spareribs, meatballs and finger sandwiches, and consumed immense quantities of beer and mixed drinks. They listened to the country songs of Tammy Wynette and the jokes of Joan Rivers, the comedienne. They received a filmed greeting from President Reagan and warm salutes from two White House emissaries. And they elected as their new president Roy L. Williams, who on Friday is to be arraigned in Federal District Court in Chicago on charges he conspired to bribe Senator Howard W. Cannon, Democrat of Nevada, in connection with trucking deregulation legislation. The union's sixth general president, Mr. Williams, 66, a longtime Kansas City teamster leader, replaces Frank E. Fitzsimmons, who died May 6. Mr. Williams takes over a union which, despite the loss of 400,000 members, is still the largest in the nation and an exceedingly influential institution. It represents more than 400,000 people in the trucking industry, which remains, despite rising petroleum prices and talk of a need to improve rail transportation, vital to the nation's economy. It represents, as well, airline pilots, bartenders, embalmers, firefighters, gas station attendants, librarians, policemen, school principals, television announcers, Xray technicians and youth counselors. It employs more than 500 attorneys. And despite an unsavory reputation that it cannot escape, many workers, including many public employees, clamor to join. It was appropriate that the teamsters came to Las Vegas. This is a town that the teamsters built, helping finance its huge hotel-casinos with their billions of dollars of pension funds. Las Vegas, which, with its lights, has night but not darkness, seems somehow a metaphor for the teamsters. It smacks, in ways that cannot always be proven, of shady dealings, of misconduct. Its leaders say the union's reputation for misconduct is undeserved. ''We are ethical,'' said Jackie Presser, a Cleveland leader who seemed to emerge at the convention as the No. 2 man and a likely successor to Mr. Williams should he be convicted or otherwise be unable to hold the presidency. ''We are probably the most progressive union in the world.'' Mr. Presser and other union men say Government investigators and the press use against the teamsters techniques - insinuation, anonymous sources and guilt by association - that were used against Communists 30 years ago and are now widely deplored. ''We haven't peddled any influence and don't intend to peddle any influence,'' Mr. Presser said. Yet there are solid reasons for the way in which the teamsters are regarded. Two former presidents, Dave Beck and James R. Hoffa, served prison terms. In 1975 Mr. Hoffa disappeared and is presumed to have been murdered. Since January alone, more than 26 local or national teamster leaders have been indicted or convicted. Union officials were forced to relinquish control of the $3 billion Central States, Southeast and Southwest Areas Pension Funds. Something of how the union works was demonstrated at last week's convention. One by one, proposals of the leadership were boisterously accepted by the 2,100 delegates, almost all of them, as local officers or business agents, part of the union apparatus. They voted to seek changes in Federal law to allow five-year terms for local officers, rather than the current three years. They voted enormous increases in executive compensation, including a $225,000 annual salary for Mr. Williams, up from the old $156,250 president's salary. They voted to prohibit union members from divulging ''the private business of the union.'' They voted to appoint business agents rather than elect them. They rejected proposals by some 35 dissident delegates for a convention every three years rather than every five; for direct election of national officers rather than by delegates at convention; for simple majority votes on contracts instead of the present system, under which a contract can be rejected only if two-thirds of the members vote against it; for a massive campaign to organize unorganized workers. It was not merely rejection of the proposals that disturbed the dissidents, but the manner in which it was done. Debate was cut short. Dissident speakers were sometimes vilely hooted down. A group of Ohio men dressed in white Teamster T-shirts three times menaced dissidents, once Ken Paff, an organizer, and twice Pete Camarate, the dissidents' presidential candidate who received only 10 votes. Why such things occur in the union is not clear. Why the membership goes along with them when they do occur is even more difficult to answer. The best answer appears to be that the union often gets lucrative contracts for them. A truck driver, working hard, can make $50,000 a year, perhaps with less than a high school education. The prevailing attitude seems to be, ''O.K., there may be a few crooks in the union, but it doesn't affect me. Besides, tough measures are needed in a tough industry.'' Mr. Presser, in nominating Mr. Williams, staunchly defended him and made what appeared to be a widely accepted point among teamsters: ''Any trouble this man has today, he has inherited only from solving the troubles of our union members, and for that we owe him a great debt of thanks.'' Dissidents like Mr. Paff of the Teamsters for a Democratic Union say that union methods often intimidate the rank and file. But it is clear that many teamsters, surely almost all the delegates at the convention, see nothing wrong with the union. This is ''the largest and greatest union in the world,'' Mr. Williams said. The delegates cheered uproariously. It is true, as teamster leaders complain, that the good works the union does, its scholarships, its gifts to charity, its senior citizen housing, receive little attention. Yet something else is ignored by the teamsters themselves, for almost no mention was made at the convention of the great problems facing the teamsters and all of American labor - organizing, the low pay of workers at the bottom end of the economy, the lack of innovative methods to counter management in a profoundly altered economy. It may be that in 1934, when drivers in Minneapolis Illustrations: Photo of Roy Williams
It was a compelling, often confusing, at times disturbing spectacle: 6,600 members of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters and their wives and guests coming to Las Vegas, city of drink, good times and gambling. Like others who come to this desert city, the teamsters went to lavish parties, ate lobster and platters of spareribs, meatballs and finger sandwiches, and consumed immense quantities of beer and mixed drinks. They listened to the country songs of Tammy Wynette and the jokes of Joan Rivers, the comedienne. They received a filmed greeting from President Reagan and warm salutes from two White House emissaries.
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U.S., IN CHANGE, IS BACKING LOANS TO 4 LATIN LANDS
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WASHINGTON, July 8— The Reagan Administration has ordered American delegates to international development banks to support loans to Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. The order, which reverses the Carter Administration's policy of not voting for such loans on human rights grounds, was based on a State Department determination that ''there have been significant improvements in the human rights situation in those countries,'' according to a department spokesman. The decision has drawn criticism on Capitol Hill from human rights activists, including Representative Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa. Congress Was Told on July 1 ''That is simply not true,'' asserted Mr. Harkin, the primary author of a 1977 law that instructs the Government to oppose loans by international banks to countries that engage in ''a consistent pattern of gross violations of human rights.'' He said, ''This decision quite clearly violates the spirit and letter of the law.'' Negative votes by the United States did not block development bank loans. A State Department offical today described them as symbolic. Congress was informed of the Reagan Administration's action in a private letter dated July 1 from W. Dennis Thomas, Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs, to Representative Jerry M. Patterson, chairman of a banking subcommittee that oversees the international development banks. ''The Department of State has reviewed the current human rights situation in Argentina, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay,'' it said, ''and has determined that the human rights legislation enacted in 1977 does not require U.S. opposition to loans to these countries.'' Since 1977, the United States has opposed all loans to Chile and has abstained on international loan proposals for Uruguay, Paraguay and Argentina. The State Department said the Carter Administration voted no or abstained on 122 loans to 16 countries. Judith Jamison, public affairs adviser to the State Department's Bureau of Human Rights, noted, however, that ''the previous Administration never formally designated any countries as falling within the definition'' of the 1977 law. According to the Treasury Department letter, delegates to the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the International Finance Corporation and the Inter-American Development Bank have been instructed to support $483.8 million in loans to the four countries this month. The Inter-American Development Bank today approved a $126 million loan to finance highway construction in Chile. In denouncing the decision, Mr. Harkin said that the human rights records of all four countries had repeatedly been criticized. In May, Amnesty International, a London-based group that monitors human rights violations, issued a statement concluding that there had been a ''marked deterioration'' in the human rights situation in Chile last year. Mr. Harkin said that this year there had been a ''wave of new arrests in Chile, more than 200,'' and that Chile had refused to prosecute people indicted by an American court in connection with the assassinations of Orlando Letelier in 1976 in Washington. Dispute on Chile The State Department spokesman replied that ''there have been no disappearances in Chile since 1977'' and ''almost all political prisoners had been released by early 1978.'' The official statement said that although the Administration regretted Chile's failure to prosecute in the Letelier case, ''We believe our voting policy should reflect the actual human rights situation in the country.'' Mr. Harkin said that Argentina had not explained the disappearance of 10,000 to 15,000 people and that it continued to hold about 1,000 people, 900 of them under decrees that require neither formal charges nor a fixed term of imprisonment. Torture continues, Mr. Harkin charged. The State Department asserted that ''the level of violence in Argentina to which terrorist activity was a major contributing factor peaked in the years 1976-78.'' The statement added that there were ''44 credibly documented disappearances'' in 1979, 12 last year and ''no confirmed disappearances since last August.'' While the number of prisoners being held under special decrees is about 900, the statement says, this is a decline from 8,000 and ''releases continue.'' The Reagan Administration has asked Congress to lift an embargo on military aid, sales and training to Argentina that was imposed two years ago because of its human rights policies, and several generals and admirals have visited Argentina recently. Paraguay and Uruguay On Paraguay, the State Department spokesman said that the number of people being detained had declined in recent years from 600 to fewer than a dozen, and that the remaining prisoners were the subject of ''diplomatic discussions.'' On Uruguay, Mr. Harkin and others have charged that the country has more political prisoners per capita than any other Latin American nation. The State Department spokesman replied, ''We don't want to get into a debate about what constitutes a political prisoner.'' The statement added, however, that about 1,100 people in Uruguay claim that status. Nevertheless, ''there have been very few new arrests and convictions in recent years,'' the statement continued. In a general defense of the new policy, the State Department said, ''We believe that more will be gained for human rights by recognizing improvement than by the continued public condemnation implicit in negative votes or abstentions on international loans.'' Another State Department official said that the negative American votes and abstentions had been symbolic because they had not prevented the four countries from receiving international development bank aid.
The Reagan Administration has ordered American delegates to international development banks to support loans to Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. The order, which reverses the Carter Administration's policy of not voting for such loans on human rights grounds, was based on a State Department determination that ''there have been significant improvements in the human rights situation in those countries,'' according to a department spokesman. The decision has drawn criticism on Capitol Hill from human rights activists, including Representative Tom Harkin, Democrat of Iowa. Congress Was Told on July 1 ''That is simply not true,'' asserted Mr. Harkin, the primary author of a 1977 law that instructs the Government to oppose loans by international banks to countries that engage in ''a consistent pattern of gross violations of human rights.'' He said, ''This decision quite clearly violates the spirit and letter of the law.''
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Chester Gorman, the archeologist whose diggings in Thailand cast doubt on theories that civilization first sprang from the rich crescent of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, died Sunday at Mercy San Juan Hospital in Sacramento, Calif. He was 43 years old and a resident of that city. Dr. Gorman was suffering from cancer, an illness that prevented him from returning this year to the American-Thai excavations that produced evidence of the world's earliest agricultural and Bronze Age society. He was an associate professor of anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania and associate curator in charge of the South and Southeast Asia section of the University Museum in Philadelphia. In 1965, as a graduate student of the University of Hawaii, he discovered the Spirit Cave near the Burmese border in northern Thailand. It contained a wealth of relics indicating that the ancient Thais were farming long before the ancestors of the Babylonians and had used bronze for tools and weapons a millenium before the Chinese. Domesticated seeds found in the cave were the oldest yet discovered, including peas, beans and root plants. Carbon tests proved them to be 11,690 years old. ''The earliest agriculture development in the Fertile Crescent area is about 9,000 years ago,'' Dr. Gorman noted at the time. By January 1973, he had uncovered a grave at Ban Chiang, a village near the Laotian border. It contained an undisturbed skeleton, along with clay pots, a bronze ax head and other bronze tools. Analysis dated them to about 3,600 to 4,000 B.C., or centuries before the arrival of the Bronze Age in the Near East. The find caused Dr. Froelich Rainey, now Emeritus Professor of Anthropology and then director of the University of Pennsylvania Museum, to journey to Thailand for a look. Dr. Rainey also recruited Dr. Gorman for the Philadelphia institution, which he joined in 1974. That year, Dr. Gorman teamed up with Pisit Charoenwongsa, curator of the National Museum in Bangkok, as co-directors of the Ban Chiang project, a joint effort by the Thai Museum and the University of Pennsylvania. Together, they unearthed numerous additional artifacts in the region, which is rich in ores of copper, tin, iron and other metals. Their treasure consisted of bronze spear points, bracelets and many other objects of surprising antiquity and great metallurgical sophistication. Many bronze objects had tin contents achievable only with rigidly controlled and advanced metallurgical techniques. They also indicated, as Dr. Gorman reported, that the region had a ''considerable period of development'' preceding the stages excavated. Southeast Asia had until then been thought of as a cultural backwater that had to borrow most of its crafts from India and China. But the finds at Ban Chiang drastically changed that view. Dr. Gorman leaves his wife, Mary Carroll; a son, Tracy, of San Diego; and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chester Gorman of Elk Grove, Calif.
Chester Gorman, the archeologist whose diggings in Thailand cast doubt on theories that civilization first sprang from the rich crescent of the Tigris-Euphrates Valley, died Sunday at Mercy San Juan Hospital in Sacramento, Calif. He was 43 years old and a resident of that city. Dr. Gorman was suffering from cancer, an illness that prevented him from returning this year to the American-Thai excavations that produced evidence of the world's earliest agricultural and Bronze Age society.
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COMMENT - REWRITING REGULATION - BY STEPHEN J. FRIEDMAN - NYTimes.com
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E VOLUTION in the financial markets has outpaced our regulatory structure in form and content. Banks, savings institutions, securities firms, investment managers and others have responded to the economic and institutional changes produced by dizzying inflation, the growth of pension funds and other forms of institutionalized savings, with imagination and vigor. The basic objectives of the system adopted for regulating financial institutions in the 1930's still endure: creation of a stable banking system, dispersal of power among financial institutions and maintenance of stable, efficient and fair capital markets. But the means adopted for achieving these goals are obsolete. In the early 1930's, the financial landscape was a neat checkerboard: each type of financial institution had a box, mandated by law, and each box had a corresponding slot on the government organization chart. Banks took demand deposits and made short-term loans. They were chartered by the Comptroller of the Currency (or the states) and regulated by the Comptroller, the Federal Reserve or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation. Savings and loan associations, created to provide residential mortgages, were regulated primarily by the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. The public securities markets supplied longer-term credit and permament capital, while money management was primarily a matter of counseling individuals or running investment companies. The securities markets were regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission, and banks were barred to a large extent from those areas by the Glass-Steagall Act. Today, the government organization chart has stayed in much the same form, but the financial markets checkerboard has become a crazy quilt. Banks still take deposits and offer checking services, but so do money-market funds, which today have more than $100 billion in assets. And securities firms pay interest on free credit balances and offer associated checking and credit card services. Making loans is no longer primarily the province of depository institutions. Traditional short-term commercial bank lending has been directly challenged by the securities industry with the development of a commercial paper market. Retail concerns, finance companies and credit-card companies are major sources of consumer credit. And as evidenced by third-quarter 1980 adjusted figures of the Federal Reserve Board, a significant portion of total mortgage credit in 1980 ($86.7 billion) is made available by governmentsponsored agencies. These developments have required changes in the rules that reinforce the old checkerboard pattern. Congress has adopted a sixyear phase-out of deposit interest-rate controls, which were created to help savings institutions in competing for funds with banks. Savings institutions have been given new commercial bank-like powers to enhance their ability to compete. While the McFadden Act's prohibition on interstate branching remains, it too has been overtaken by events. As banks rely more on purchased funds, the competition for funds takes place in a market that is international - not merely interstate - in scope. Similarly, bank competition for financing large corporations is not confined to state lines. Consider the government securities markets. No single agency regulates the market for government-related securities. The Commodities Futures Trading Commission regulates futures and the S.E.C. will regulate options on these securities - although often the two investments might be sold by the same firm to the same customer for the same economic purpose. That doesn't make a great deal of sense. The list could go on, but the point is obvious. Clinging to regulatory sacred cows that are approaching their 50th birthdays risks deadening innovations and reducing social benefits from regulation. Three steps are in order: * The basic issues of power and function in the financial markets should be reviewed by the Congress, especially the proper role of large banks in the United States and the world economy; the social value of continuing to protect small banks with barriers to competition; the benefits of maintaining the public-securities markets as a source of capital separate from banks, insurance companies and other sources of credit in the direct placement markets, and the effect of the existence of unregulated deposit-takers and lenders on monetary policy and the stability of the banking system. * Greater efforts should be made to treat all of those engaged in the same activities in approximately the same manner, regardless of the sources of their ''charters.'' Function, not labels, should be the touchstone of regulation. * We should continue the evolution toward new forms of financial regulation. The experiments in consolidation and reshaping represented by the Financial Institutions Examinations Council (composed of all the bank regulators) should be repeated with the S.E.C., the C.F.T.C. and the bank regulators in areas such as investment management, options and futures, and government securities. --------------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen J. Friedman is a Securities and Exchange commissioner whose term expires in June.
E VOLUTION in the financial markets has outpaced our regulatory structure in form and content. Banks, savings institutions, securities firms, investment managers and others have responded to the economic and institutional changes produced by dizzying inflation, the growth of pension funds and other forms of institutionalized savings, with imagination and vigor. The basic objectives of the system adopted for regulating financial institutions in the 1930's still endure: creation of a stable banking system, dispersal of power among financial institutions and maintenance of stable, efficient and fair capital markets. But the means adopted for achieving these goals are obsolete.
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Parliamentary Elections Set for June 30 in Israel
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JERUSALEM, Feb. 10— After a month of political maneuvering and bargaining, Parliament voted unanimously today to set June 30 as the date for new elections. Prime Minister Menachem Begin is to remain in office at least until a new Government can be formed after the election of a new Parliament. June 30 was a compromise between the Begin Cabinet's preference for July 7 and an earlier date favored by the opposition Labor Party, which has been heavily favored over Mr. Begin's Likud bloc in public opinion polls. Labor had called for elections in April or May to take advantage of discontent with the Government. Mr. Begin and his Cabinet had not wanted elections before November, when they were originally scheduled. A series of defections and resignations, however, weakened the coalition and made a vote of no confidence inevitable if the Government tried to continue. The event that tipped the scale was the resignation last month of Finance Minister Yigael Hurwitz, who took his three members of the Rafi faction with him, in protest over a Cabinet decision to accept a plan for large midcontract raises for teachers. He said the decision would undermine his fight against inflation. The economy finally broke the Government's resilience, and the economy seemed likely to figure prominently in the election campaign.
After a month of political maneuvering and bargaining, Parliament voted unanimously today to set June 30 as the date for new elections. Prime Minister Menachem Begin is to remain in office at least until a new Government can be formed after the election of a new Parliament.
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ROGERS E.M. WHITAKER, WRITER AND EDITOR FOR THE NEW YORKER
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Rogers E.M. Whitaker, an editor and writer for The New Yorker since 1926, the year after the magazine began publishing, died of cancer yesterday in Calvary Hospital, the Bronx. He was 82 years old. As an editor, Mr. Whitaker earned the praise of such writers as W.H. Auden, V.S. Pritchett and John Updike, whose book reviews he edited, and Mr. Updike dedicated one of his books to him. As a writer he wore several famous disguises in his columns and Talk of the Town pieces. He was ''E.M. Frimbo,'' the world's greatest railroad buff, when, collaborating with Anthony Hiss, who shared an office with him at The New Yorker, he wrote about his train adventures. He was ''The Old Curmudgeon'' in Talk of the Town items. And he signed his Ivy League football pieces ''J.W.L.'' because, an editor explained, the initials had the right look typographically. In addition, he was known as ''Popsie'' Whitaker in the nightclub world. For some 35 years his ''Table for Two'' reviews of performers sustained them, according to Hugh Shannon, a pianist and singer. '' 'Popsie' covered all of us entertainers going way back,'' Mr. Shannon said yesterday. ''We respected him and depended on his reviews to recognize our work.'' Mr. Whitaker, born in Arlington, Mass., on Jan. 15, 1899, was a graduate of Princeton, class of 1922. After arriving in New York, he found a job selling advertising space for The New York Times. He was hired by The New Yorker in 1926 and remained with the magazine for the rest of his career. In the early years, he headed the checking department and then the makeup department at the magazine. When he retired as an editor three years ago, he continued on the staff as a ''Talk'' writer and football columnist. An Impeccable Ear Gardner Botsford, senior fact editor at The New Yorker, said yesterday: ''He was one of the really talented editors who helped to shape the writing in the magazine during its formative years. He had an impeccable ear for style and grammar and for making sense out of a sentence. Writers who transgressed lived to regret it - he had a sharp tongue - but at the same time they learned.'' Another editor described Mr. Whitaker as a real character who looked and dressed ''like a cross between Winston Churchill and W.C. Fields.'' When he went into the press box at football games, he was ''respected and feared'' by young reporters as a celebrity in his own right. The story around The New Yorker is that Mr. Whitaker inherited the football column in 1933 because the novelist John O'Hara, assigned to report a Harvard game, was not in fit condition to turn in his copy. As a railroad buff, he was co-author with Anthony Hiss of ''All Aboard With E. M. Frimbo.'' His train adventures formed the basis for a short-lived musical, ''Frimbo,'' written and directed by a friend, John Haber, that played at Grand Central Terminal for three weeks in November 1980. 2,748,636.81 Miles by Rail Mr. Whitaker kept a careful log of his railroad travels, during which his standard attire was a homburg and trenchcoat. In his lifetime, he logged 2,748,636.81 miles on railroads all over the world. His lawyer, Ronald Konecky, recalled yesterday, ''You could call him up in the middle of the night and ask him how to get to Tulsa or Medicine Hat by train and he'd give you all the times and connections.'' Mr. Whitaker, colleagues said, was married and divorced three times. He is survived by a brother, Francis Whitaker of Aspen, Colo., and a sister, Lucy Ann Haessler of Santa Cruz, Calif. A service will be held in the chapel of St. Bartholomew's Church on Friday at 4 P.M. Illustrations: Photo of Rogers E. M. Whitaker
Rogers E.M. Whitaker, an editor and writer for The New Yorker since 1926, the year after the magazine began publishing, died of cancer yesterday in Calvary Hospital, the Bronx. He was 82 years old. As an editor, Mr. Whitaker earned the praise of such writers as W.H. Auden, V.S. Pritchett and John Updike, whose book reviews he edited, and Mr. Updike dedicated one of his books to him. As a writer he wore several famous disguises in his columns and Talk of the Town pieces. He was ''E.M. Frimbo,'' the world's greatest railroad buff, when, collaborating with Anthony Hiss, who shared an office with him at The New Yorker, he wrote about his train adventures. He was ''The Old Curmudgeon'' in Talk of the Town items. And he signed his Ivy League football pieces ''J.W.L.'' because, an editor explained, the initials had the right look typographically.
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IONA SCORES, 80-71, OVER NORTHEASTERN
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NEW ROCHELLE, N.Y., Dec. 12— Iona continued to excel at its home arena, the Mulcahy Center, defeating Northeastern, 80-71, in the final of the Manufacturers Hanover basketball classic tonight. The host Gaels ran up a 43-29 halftime edge in achieving their 12th victory in the last 13 games at home. In seven years at Mulcahy, Iona is batting .800. Steve Burtt, who missed Friday night's victory over Delaware after having two wisdom teeth extracted, lost no time in showing the form that has made him Iona's leading scorer. He got 17 points, 15 in the first half. And Gary Springer, the 6-foot 7-inch sophomore forward from Franklin High School, turned in aggressive rebounding and added 16 points. Springer was voted the most valuable player in the tourney. Springer intimidated the Bostonians from the start, stealing their passes and breaking up plays, along with Mike Ice, a 6-10 transfer student from Penn State, who also had 16. They stopped everyone but Perry Moss, who scored 32 points for Northeastern. In spite of Iona's lead of 11 to 13 points in the last five minutes, Coach Pat Kennedy said that he began to worry. ''I knew they would have to start fouling us to stay in the game, and we're not that good from the foul line,'' he said. His fears proved unfounded as Ice, Springer and Tony Iati were unerring with free throws. Kennedy said: ''We tried to match up their quickness with our quickness on the wings. Moss is a senior and Eric Jefferson is a senior and they're both very quick. Jefferson was 0 for 9 in the first half and we managed to hold Moss down, so it worked. ''If Moss had asserted himself earlier in the game, we might not have opened such a gap.'' In the consolation game, Columbia raced to an early lead, just as it had Friday before losing to Northeastern. This time, however, the Lions were at their scrambling best and scored a 54-46 victory over Delaware. The Lions moved to a 30-16 halftime edge and fended off a late Delaware thrust before sealing the victory. But they were never in real trouble. Eric Clarke, who took any hopes of a Columbia victory with him when he fouled out of the Northeastern game in the second half, dominated the boards and dunked a few on his own. He accounted for 10 rebounds and as many points in sharing scoring honors with Rich Gordon and Darren Burnett. Delaware's shooters had a bad night, especially in the early stages. They missed two of three shots at the basket in the first half and only managed to keep the game reasonably close because of some good shots by Ken Luck and a mid-period streak by Ken Dill. Luck, with 14 points, and Dill, with 12, led the losers.
Iona continued to excel at its home arena, the Mulcahy Center, defeating Northeastern, 80-71, in the final of the Manufacturers Hanover basketball classic tonight. The host Gaels ran up a 43-29 halftime edge in achieving their 12th victory in the last 13 games at home. In seven years at Mulcahy, Iona is batting .800.
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THE SENATE'S 'ODD COUPLE' HAS MANY UNRULY OFFSPRING
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WASHINGTON— When the dust had settled after Election Day, the Senate Appropriations Committee, long the redoubt of some of the chamber's more influential barons, found itself headed by two relatively youthful and independent-minded members, Senators Mark O. Hatfield, Republican of Oregon, and William Proxmire, Democrat of Wisconsin. Hatfield and Proxmire, the Senate's ''odd couple.'' Many observers were initially stunned by the rise of these two mavericks, who have been frequently and prominently outside the mainstream of their parties. The shock, however, has diminished as chairman Hatfield and ranking minority member Proxmire have begun to prepare the panel for what may be the most contentious legislative season since the New Deal. ''The election signaled a new mood in the country,'' Mr. Hatfield said in a recent interview. ''There is a widespread desire for fiscal restraint, for balanced Federal budgets, as a means of stemming inflation. Obviously, this committee's actions will be critical in determining whether President Reagan is able to carry out his mandate.'' Early last month, the full committee held hearings on the nation's economic outlook. Last week, three subcommittees began reviewing the Federal Government's labor, energy and health programs and their funding requirements. Such hearings will continue, virtually on a non-stop basis, through March, when the committee is scheduled to report its spending recommendations for next year to the Senate Budget Committee. The Appropriations panel has, in fact, ''hit the ground running.'' But analysts predict that it faces growing internal tension and rivalries with other Senate panels as it begins the difficult process of making cuts in Federal programs. The committee's mandate to rein in spending, Mr. Hatfield argues, will require changes in its habits and procedures. ''We need a tightly integrated comittee,'' Mr. Hatfield contends. ''Not one that has been balkanized into 13 subcommittees.'' This objective, he acknowledged, conflicts with the panel's traditional division into ''fiefdoms,'' each determined to appropriate as much funding as possible for its pet projects and programs. What this portends, committee staff members agree, is a more active role for the full committee, and more direct involvement by Mr. Hatfield, as well as Mr. Proxmire, in the deliberations of the once virtually autonomous subcommittees. This change, which might have been resisted by members just a few years ago, is feasible only because of the radical change in the committee's membership. For the first time in the Senate's modern history, the appropriations panel has eight new members. Some argue that the new blood will enable the panel to break free of the special interest groups that closely monitor subcommittee sessions and press for additional funds. But there is also fear that, because many members are unfamiliar with committee procedures, ''the learning process may make for some rough sledding,'' according to one aide. Mr. Hatfield said that he is determined to improve what he termed the ''abrasive'' past working relationships between the appropriations panel and the committees on the budget and finance. Despite such sentiments, however, many analysts predict that there will be an increasingly fierce bureaucratic ''turf'' dispute involving the Senate appropriations and budget panels. ''There is bound to be one hell of a fight if the Senate Budget Committee tries to enforce spending ceilings by telling members of the Appropriations Committee how and where they should cut Federal spending,'' warned a staff aide. Concern for turf has been heightened in recent years by the Appropriations Commitee's loss of control over spending in entitlement programs and other politically untouchable sectors, such as defense. If military expenditures and entitlement programs are not included in the $662.7 billion fiscal year 1981 budget, the Appropriations Committee has effective control over a mere $85 billion in Federal funds, committee aides calculate. Senator Hatfield also hopes to improve relations with the House Appropriations Committee, which is chaired by Representative Jamie L. Whitten, Democrat of Mississippi, to avoid difficult to resolve disputes at the House-Senate conferences. In general, the Senate appropriations panel has not been marked by deep partisan divisions. Instead, the divisions usually stem from regional issues and pet projects. Farm Senators, for example, tend to be forceful defenders of milk and grain price supports; urban Senators can be expected to fight to minimize reductions in Urban Development Action Grants and other city-oriented spending programs. Mr. Hatfield said that he anticipates an ''excellent'' relationship with Mr. Proxmire. ''We've voted a lot alike,'' Mr. Hatfield remarked, ''but our styles are somewhat different.'' While Mr. Hatfield has been quietly establishing procedures for improving his committee's coordination and efficiency, Mr. Proxmire has been firing fiscal salvos at newly appointed agency heads. Mr. Proxmire asked President Reagan's Cabinet nominees to answer a lengthy list of questions. How would they, for example, cut their agencies' budgets by 10 percent, 20 percent or 50 percent? Senators Hatfield and Proxmire have worked together in the past; both opposed President Carter's draft registration legislation. They have occasionally been ideological outcasts from their own parties. While Mr. Hatfield was supporting many of the Federal social programs Republicans attacked, Mr. Proxmire was waging a sometimes lonely war on Government waste. In the past, they have shared a deep skepticism of the Pentagon's soaring spending requests. This may be changing, however. While Senator Hatfield claims that he is personally opposed to a $20 billion increase in defense spending and is determined to subject military appropriations to the same scrutiny his committee applies to other expenditures, Mr. Proxmire said recently that he now believes a substantial increase in defense spending is warranted. Illustrations: photo of Senator Proxmire photo of Senator Hatfield
When the dust had settled after Election Day, the Senate Appropriations Committee, long the redoubt of some of the chamber's more influential barons, found itself headed by two relatively youthful and independent-minded members, Senators Mark O. Hatfield, Republican of Oregon, and William Proxmire, Democrat of Wisconsin. Hatfield and Proxmire, the Senate's ''odd couple.'' Many observers were initially stunned by the rise of these two mavericks, who have been frequently and prominently outside the mainstream of their parties. The shock, however, has diminished as chairman Hatfield and ranking minority member Proxmire have begun to prepare the panel for what may be the most contentious legislative season since the New Deal.
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Ex-Quarterback Is Safetyman
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LATROBE, Pa.— It was typical of the coaching staff of the Pittsburgh Steelers - a crew merciless at testing rookies. Bill Hurley, who was starting his first game in professional football, was assigned to the Steeler kickoff unit with the job of running down field and breaking the blocking wedge of the Giants' receiving team. It was a task better suited for a sacrificial lamb than a quarterback from Syracuse who had never before performed on a kickoff team. Welcome, indeed, to the National Football League. Hurley survived, but later in that exhibition game played a year ago, he reinjured his leg, a pull of the hamstring. He was placed on the club's injured-reserve list for the entire season. But he practiced with the team, went to the meetings, and learned as much as he could. ''Getting hurt in that game was the best thing that ever happened to me,'' Hurley said recently at the Steelers' training camp here. ''Otherwise they probably would have cut me before the season.'' Players who are injured in training camp must be retained by their pro teams until they are well, and first-year players with promise often are kept on injured reserve until the next season. New Man on Defense Hurley, who accounted for more yards gained at Syracuse than any player in the university's history, was drafted by Pittsburgh to play safety. He hadn't played on defense since he was a sophomore at St. Joseph's Catholic High School in Buffalo. But now no one on the Steelers would be surprised if Hurley began this season as the team's starting free safety, filling the spot left by the retirement of Mike Wagner. Hurley's biggest task was to convince himself and Coach Chuck Noll that he could tackle players in the N.F.L. His first opportunity came in Cleveland this season when the Steelers beat the Browns in their first exhibition game. ''For several years I had been dodging people,'' Hurley said. ''I took a lot of hits at Syracuse and now I had to change and become the aggressor. I always wanted to give the tackler the least amount of me I could. Now I look to zero in on my opponent.'' A Rare Switch Rarely has a college quarterback succeeded in making the switch to a pro safety, although three players currently in the N.F.L. - Steve Foley of Denver, John Sciarra of Philadelphia and Nolan Cromwell of Los Angeles -have done it with a modicum of success. Cromwell even became an all-pro selection for the Rams. Dick Haley, a former Steeler defensive back who is now the personnel director, compares Hurley to Cromwell. ''Both were outstanding running quarterbacks in college,'' he said, ''fine allround athletes. Hurley could have been a candidate here as a running back.'' At Syracuse, Hurley rushed for 2,551 yards, third behind Larry Csonka and Floyd Little on the school's career rushing list but ahead of Jim Brown, Ernie Davis, John Mackey and Jim Nance. 112th Choice in Draft Hurley was the 112th college player drafted in 1980, the last man chosen on the fourth round by the Steelers, who had just won their fourth Super Bowl and would have all their starters returning. ''Right away I missed the first 10 days of training camp with the pulled hamstring,'' Hurley said. ''I had no confidence. I was making mistakes -I still do - and there was no way my athletic ability could shine through. It was like the start of my sophomore year in college.'' Hurley was Syracuse's starting quarterback as a sophomore in 1977; his first few games were terrible. Frank Maloney, the coach, stayed with him, though, and late in the season Hurley had his first big game when Syracuse almost upset Pittsburgh, then ranked No. 1 in the nation. Hurley rushed for 112 yards and passed for 202. Hurt in 1978 Season Hurley, now 24 years old, missed the 1978 season because of injury, and in 1979, his last one, the team won seven games including one from McNeese State in a minor bowl game. ''But a bowl game,'' he said. His biggest disappointment in those years was that Syracuse could not beat Pitt or Penn State, although several times it came close. Hurley was sorry when Maloney quit last year - ''he wasn't enough of a politician which you have to be at Syracuse'' - but he hears good things about Maloney's successor, Dick MacPherson, from a younger brother who is a candidate for the team. ''I come from a big family'' he said. ''Six brothers and sisters. We're from Depew, a suburb of Buffalo. We're all into sports. I'm always playing something, golf, tennis, skiing, baseball, ice hockey. I played hockey last winter but I don't think I'll do it again. A guy could give me just one hit and that might be all for football.'' Competition Is Tough The competition for the free safety position at the Steelers' St. Vincent College training camp is among J.T. Thomas, Dwayne Woodruff and Hurley. Thomas has been a Steeler starter for five seasons. He missed a season because of a blood disorder but returned in 1979 and was a regular on the Pittsburgh's last Super Bowl team. Woodruff, beginning his third pro season, is the fastest of the club's defensive backs and is used as a supplementary fifth pass defender. Hurley is 5 feet 11 inches tall and weighs 195 pounds. He says he is fast enough and that he is ready to stick with the pros. ''I feel comfortable, like I know what I'm doing,'' he said. ''I think I'm a smart football player. My college coaches thought I was. Now I'm just beginning to use my intelligence.'' Illustrations: Photo of Bill Hurley
It was typical of the coaching staff of the Pittsburgh Steelers - a crew merciless at testing rookies. Bill Hurley, who was starting his first game in professional football, was assigned to the Steeler kickoff unit with the job of running down field and breaking the blocking wedge of the Giants' receiving team. It was a task better suited for a sacrificial lamb than a quarterback from Syracuse who had never before performed on a kickoff team. Welcome, indeed, to the National Football League. Hurley survived, but later in that exhibition game played a year ago, he reinjured his leg, a pull of the hamstring. He was placed on the club's injured-reserve list for the entire season. But he practiced with the team, went to the meetings, and learned as much as he could.
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ATLANTA SUSPECT PLEADS NOT GUILTY
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ATLANTA, Aug. 17— Wayne B. Williams pleaded not guilty today to murder charges in the deaths of two of 28 young blacks, and a Superior Court judge set a tentative trial date of Oct. 5. Deputy sheriffs using hand-operated metal detectors scanned spectators, searched handbags and ushered people into the courtroom one by one. The 23-year-old black freelance photographer and music promoter was arraigned before 150 spectators who crowded into a heavily guarded room at the Fulton County courthouse. Mr. Williams, who appeared with his attorney, former City Solicitor Mary Welcome, was asked by Judge Clarence Cooper whether he was ready to enter a plea and replied, ''I plead not guilty to both counts.'' Mr. Williams was indicted July 17 on two counts of murder in the slayings of Jimmy Ray Payne, 21, and Nathaniel Cater, 21, two of the 28 young victims in a two-year series of killings here. After Mr. Williams entered his plea, Judge Cooper announced a tentative trial date of Oct. 5 and told attorneys for both sides that any motions in the case must be filed within 10 days. Pretrial Instructions The judge said that on Sept. 3 he would deal with motions requiring hearings. He also ordered prosecution and defense attorneys to submit to the court within one week of the trial date any questions that they planned to ask experts about scientific data in the case. Any questions for jurors must be submitted by Sept. 15, the judge said. Judge Cooper also cautioned attorneys to stop the ''highly improper and very unprofessional'' disclosures about the case to reporters, although he noted that some statements ''were made inadvertently.'' ''We all find ourselves caught up in an emotional web which strips us of our ability to calm down and act in a sober, reasonable manner,'' he said. ''Since many of the comments which have appeared in the media about different aspects of the case can be attributed, directly or indirectly, to one or more of the attorneys involved in the case, the court feels compelled to give fair warning to everyone associated with the case that such conduct will not be tolerated and should cease immediately.'' Mr. Williams's parents, Homer and Faye Williams, sat behind their son during the 10-minute court session. The defendant lives with his parents in a small brick home in northwest Atlanta. Will Not Seek Death Penalty District Attorney Lewis Slaton has said he would not seek the death penalty. Mr. Williams has been in isolation in the Fulton County jail since he was arrested June 21 and charged with the murder of Mr. Cater, a laborer whose body was found May 24 in the Chattahoochee River. Two days before the discovery of the body, Mr. Williams had been stopped on a bridge several hundred yards upstream by law enforcement officers who were staking out the area. On June 23, one of the officers testified at a preliminary hearing that they heard a loud splash in the river about 3 A.M. and had sighted Mr. Williams's car moving slowly over the bridge. Although Mr. Williams was initially charged only with the murder of Mr. Cater, on July 17 a Fulton County grand jury returned a twocount murder indictment against him, charging him with both slayings. A 100-member police task force is continuing its investigation of the 28 killings and one disappearance, which began July 28, 1979. No arrests have been made in any of the 26 other cases. Illustrations: Photo of Mary Welcome
Wayne B. Williams pleaded not guilty today to murder charges in the deaths of two of 28 young blacks, and a Superior Court judge set a tentative trial date of Oct. 5. Deputy sheriffs using hand-operated metal detectors scanned spectators, searched handbags and ushered people into the courtroom one by one. The 23-year-old black freelance photographer and music promoter was arraigned before 150 spectators who crowded into a heavily guarded room at the Fulton County courthouse.
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BRITAIN DISCOVERS A RACE PROBLEM, TO ITS SURPRISE
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LONDON— The bricks and firebombs that went crashing through windows of dozens of shops and police cars in South London last weekend also shattered well-established public attitudes about race relations. The British were appalled to discover that it can happen here, that there is ''a Niagara of discontent among young blacks who are being discriminated against over jobs, housing, and other matters,'' as Clinton Davis, a Labor Member of Parliament, said. ''They didn't know that there was a problem here at all,'' observed a 20-year-old black man who said he had hurled stones at policemen during the disorders. ''Now they know.'' Britain's new racial difficulties have come to the fore relatively quickly. Middle-aged Britons recall an almost entirely white, Anglo-Saxon society, comfortably homogenous. Now, a Government-sponsored commission is trumpeting the strengths of ''a multiracial Britain.'' Racial composition changed rapidly after World War II, when the Government encouraged immigration from the former Empire to fill jobs Britons did not want. In the 1960's, as friction developed, immigration was sharply restricted. But the nonwhite population continues to grow, because of the arrival of immigrants' spouses and children from abroad and because a high proportion - 58 percent - of nonwhites are of child-bearing age. About 4 percent of the population is of Asian, African or West Indian descent. Although these are small minorities by United States standards, concentrations in London and Birmingham have produced disproportionate visibility. Brixton, the scene of last weekend's rioting, is predominantly white, but it has a distinctly West Indian flavor, with spicy chicken and plantain chips on sale at corner stands, and reggae music blaring from windows. In post-mortems after 48 hours of violence in Brixton produced dozens of injuries and 200 arrests, authorities stressed that white youths also took part, that it was therefore not a race riot but a riot directed against the police. In an opinion poll in Brixton last year, 70 percent registered little confidence in the police. Still, most rioters were black and almost all policemen were white. And no one denies that Brixton, a delapidated neighborhood that includes perhaps 50,000 blacks, is a focus of deep racial hostility. In a recent, exhaustive report, a community group warned that relations between Brixton residents and police were nearing a ''breaking point'' and called the situation ''extremely grave.'' Sir David McNee, the London Police Commissioner, concedes that ''a multiracial society is putting the fabric of our policing philosophy under greater stress than at any time'' in 150 years. With severe recession, national unemployment has climbed to 10 percent; among the young and poorly educated in places such as Brixton, it may reach 20 or 30 percent. Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's austerity policies, including rigid restraints on spending for social programs, have restricted services and facilities that poor neighborhoods had come to expect under the old Labor Party Government. ''But beyond all that sort of thing, it is a question of attitudes,'' said Courtney Laws, head of the Brixton Neighborhood Association. ''You just cannot imagine what it is like to be black in white Britain. The attitudes are going to have to change.'' Offensive racial stereotypes that have long since disappeared from public view in the United States - cannibals, pickaninnies and shiftless black servants - still appear regularly in British advertisements and cartoons, despite a Government-sponsored educational campaign. Now that more than 40 percent of the country's nonwhites are born in Britain, they find it irritating to hear their troubles described as an ''immigration problem.'' They have the frustrated feeling that ''no one is representing us,'' as a black bus driver said. There are no nonwhites among the 635 members of the House of Commons. In the last election, candidates tried to attract the one million nonwhite voters - by printing leaflets in the Bengali and Urdu languages, for example. But the main parties fielded only five nonwhite candidates, all in constituencies where their chances were slim. Nor are there nonwhites in positions of importance at Buckingham Palace or 10 Downing Street. Will Wishing Make It So? Indeed, many nonwhites regard Prime Minister Thatcher as an enemy, or, at least, not a friend. During two years in office, she has made no major statement on race relations. Discussing white resentment of nonwhite immigrants during the 1979 campaign, Mrs. Thatcher said, ''They feel their whole way of life has been changed. Small minorities can be absorbed. But once a minority in a neighborhood gets very large, people do feel swamped.'' A Gallup Poll indicated that two-thirds of the population agreed. Last week, some black leaders again found her insufficiently compassionate. When she was asked if unemployment might have caused the rioting, she said, ''No, I don't think that is a primary cause. We had much higher unemployment in the 1930's, but we didn't get this.'' Rejecting suggestions to increase public spending in the riot area, she contended, ''Money cannot buy trust and racial harmony. Trust is a two-way business. No one must condone the disgraceful acts which took place. They were criminal.'' Visiting India later in the week, the Prime Minister complained of ''wounding'' charges that her Government's proposals to divide British citizenship into three classes for immigration purposes were based on color. ''We wish to create a racially harmonious society,'' Mrs. Thatcher said. The Government has asked Lord Scarman, a distinguished former judge, to conduct an inquiry into the Brixton riots, including relations with the police. But some Britons think that is not enough. ''Life in South London is desolation and despair,'' said Thomas Cox, who represents an area near Brixton in Parliament. Reporting on intimidation and attacks against blacks, he added, ''The Home Secretary can have a dozen inquiries if he wants to, but unless the Government tackles the root causes of our problems in South London, sadly this will happen again. And next time it will not only be the destruction of property, but it will be the loss of lives as well.'' Illustrations: Graphs of British immigration and non-white population since 1975 Photo of policeman injured in Brixton riot
The bricks and firebombs that went crashing through windows of dozens of shops and police cars in South London last weekend also shattered well-established public attitudes about race relations. The British were appalled to discover that it can happen here, that there is ''a Niagara of discontent among young blacks who are being discriminated against over jobs, housing, and other matters,'' as Clinton Davis, a Labor Member of Parliament, said. ''They didn't know that there was a problem here at all,'' observed a 20-year-old black man who said he had hurled stones at policemen during the disorders. ''Now they know.'' Britain's new racial difficulties have come to the fore relatively quickly. Middle-aged Britons recall an almost entirely white, Anglo-Saxon society, comfortably homogenous. Now, a Government-sponsored commission is trumpeting the strengths of ''a multiracial Britain.''
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MIXED CAPITAL SPENDING PLANS
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When the Champion International Corporation broke ground last May on a new $483 million pulp mill in Quinnesec, Mich., the goal was to get the mill operating by September 1984. That is now in question. Construction plans were squeezed by a 10 percent cut this month in Champion's 1982 capital spending budget, a cut that stemmed largely from the persistently high interest rates that threaten to hurt the economy in 1982. ''If the situation does not improve, a second cut could delay the plant for as much as another year,'' Gerald J. Beiser, Champion's senior vice president for finance, said yesterday. ''We'll have to decide that in a couple of months, based on general business conditions. We're watching the situation very closely.'' Champion's capital spending cuts are precisely the opposite of the boom in capital investment that the Reagan Administration expected as a result of the budget reductions and the sweeping tax cut bill so favorable to business that were enacted by Congress this summer. But while many executives said in telephone interviews that they shared Mr. Beiser's uncertainty about the economy, their spending plans have not been sharply altered. Many Not Shifting Plans Unlike Champion, many companies are keeping their 1982 spending plans on target. Some, like Rockwell International and Gould Inc., have plenty of cash to finance expansion without borrowing. Others, like Anheuser-Busch, are proceeding aggressively without regard to steep interest charges. And still others, such as the Dana Corporation and Rexnord Inc., are moving cautiously in anticipation of a pickup in demand late next year. The Commerce Department said last week that it expects capital spending to rise 8.8 percent in 1982, or about equal to the inflation rate. But Thomas Barger, a director of industry forecasting at Chase Econometrics, said companies will gradually scale back investments, as Champion International has, if interest rates stay high, despite the Administration's contention that spending by business is essential to economic recovery. ''It has not shown up yet, but more and more, companies are trimming spending plans wherever possible,'' Mr. Barger said. Despite the high rates and a budget deficit that is nearing an inflationary $60 billion or more next year, many executives voiced strong support of the President's economic program. As one said, the situation will improve ''once we get to the other side of the valley.'' ''The investment will pick up once the orders start to flow,'' said Stanley W. Gustafson, president of Dana. ''That's when the Reagan plan will really help. Nobody is going to borrow and invest just because of a change in Federal policy.'' In Dana's case, this has been a ''maintenance'' year, Mr. Gustafson said. The maker of parts for trucks and automobiles has been a casualty of high interest rates. Dana will spend about $50 million by year-end, half of its 1979 capital budget, mainly for replacing outdated equipment. The process of budgeting capital expenses, which many companies are bringing to a close for 1982 projects, includes many elements. Among them are the amount of cash in the company treasury, the level of debt, the likely cost of new debt, opportunities for expansion or new investment to meet existing or anticipated customer demand, and each company's varied strategies for its products. Perhaps most important, many companies judge spending proposals with a measuring stick known as the ''hurdle rate,'' a minimum rate of profit that must be earned on cash invested in a project. It is the high cost of borrowed money, which many executives blame on fears of a mounting budget deficit, that has driven up ''hurdle rates'' this year. Many projects have been delayed that otherwise would have been approved. 'More Risk-Taking' If Rates Fall ''If rates are lower, you'll have more people taking risks'' because they will be able to price products lower and still earn a profit, Mr. Gustafson said. ''But as long as the Government continues to subsidize interest rates by borrowing, it will automatically create higher risk for risk-takers.'' Interest rates are not a problem, however, for companies that have plenty of their own cash to finance their best projects. Rockwell International, for instance, expects to spend about $350 million of its $1 billion in cash on hand on new plants and equipment next year, including $100 million on an axle plant in Asheville, N.C., and $25 million on another axle plant in York, S.C. And the com pany is aggressively adding computer-based equipment to its manufactu rin g facilities, according to Robert A. De Pa lma, vice president of finance. If the President chooses to build th e B-1 bomber, which President Carter ruled out four years ago, R ockwell will add at least another $300 million to its 1982 capital budget. In general, Mr. De Palma defended the President's economic program, but he faulted Mr. Reagan for not achieving all the necessary cuts in the 1982 Federal budget before his tax-cut package was approved last month. The Administration has said that at least an additional $15 billion to $20 billion must be trimmed from 1982 expenditures to achieve Mr. Reagan's pledge of a balanced budget by 1984. 'He's Going to Get There' ''Wall Street called it last March: Postpone the tax cut until the budget is set,'' Mr. De Palma said. President Reagan ''has come at it the wrong way, and lost a lot of confidence among investors, but he's going to get there. The President is not going to blow a $100 billion deficit.'' Anheuser-Busch expects to reduce its taxes by about $100 million through 1984 as a result of the accelerated-depreciation legislation authorized last month. The depreciation windfall would come as a result of plans to invest more than $2 billion through 1984. ''The tax-cut program was a factor in the degree of our aggressiveness,'' said Jerry E. Ritter, vice president for finance. He added that Anheuser-Busch is moving ahead, despite its substantial borrowing needs, to carry through its expansion. ''We can't let high interest rates influence our long-term plans,'' he added. ''We can try to be smart about timing, but we'll borrow when we have to.'' Gould avoided the interest rate problem, in part, by raising $375 million in cash by selling its industrial products group. The company is using that money to expand manufacturing capacity for factory automation products, computer-aided laboratory instruments and computer systems. ''We fully expect that our customers will increase their investment in these areas as a result of the new incentives and in research and development,'' Charles M. Brennan, senior vice president and chief financial officer, said. The new tax law allows companies a 25 cent tax credit for each dollar they invest research and development. Despite his optimism, Mr. Brennan said he does not expect demand to pick up sharply until at least 1983. Many of the executives agreed, but they cautioned that this does not mean they are do not pleased by Mr. Reagan's economic program. ''This is a new way of looking at the industrial world,'' said Donald Taylor, president of Rexnord, a diversified industrial manufacturer. ''It's going to take some time to bite. I expect the next four quarters to be fairly slow.'' ''Unfortunately, the American mentality tends to be one of instant gratification,'' he added. ''But once we are over this period, we are going to have a very steady boom period in the capital goods market. We don't intend to pull in our horns too much.'' Illustrations: Table of where six companies stand on capital spending
When the Champion International Corporation broke ground last May on a new $483 million pulp mill in Quinnesec, Mich., the goal was to get the mill operating by September 1984. That is now in question. Construction plans were squeezed by a 10 percent cut this month in Champion's 1982 capital spending budget, a cut that stemmed largely from the persistently high interest rates that threaten to hurt the economy in 1982. ''If the situation does not improve, a second cut could delay the plant for as much as another year,'' Gerald J. Beiser, Champion's senior vice president for finance, said yesterday. ''We'll have to decide that in a couple of months, based on general business conditions. We're watching the situation very closely.''
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ANTIQUES - A SHOW SPONSORED BY 2 CHURCHES - NYTimes.com
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SHREWSBURY THE 11th annual Shrewsbury Corners Antiques Show and Sale will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Parish Hall of Presbyterian Church on Sycamore Avenue. Sponsored jointly by the church and its neighbor, Christ Church Episcopal, the show will have 28 dealers displaying country antiques and primitives, together with more-elaborate decorative accessories. The two white-shingled churches, with their steeples and neighboring tree-shaded graveyards, stand at a historic crossroads. Presbyterian Church was founded in 1732, and the present building dates to 1821. Christ Church, which is at Sycamore Avenue and Broad Street, was founded in 1702 and has a charter that King George II granted in 1738. The present building dates to 1769. The original weathervane, which is still atop the church, shows damage from musket fire in Revolutionary days. Both churches will be open for viewing on the afternoons of the antiques show. Across the street from the Episcopal church is a Quaker meetinghouse dating to 1816. Formed in 1672, the meeting is said to be the oldest rural Quaker congregation in New Jersey. Cater-cornered from the church is the George Allen House, part of which dates to the mid-1600's. Now a museum, the house has been refurbished as the tavern it once was. The museum, which is maintained by the Monmouth County Historical Association, features displays from the county's history. It is open Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sundays from 1 to 4 P.M. and Saturdays from 10 A.M. to 4 P.M. from April to December. Most of the dealers at the antiques show will be from central New Jersey or hereabouts. Zita Kilbride of Woodfield Antiques in Colts Neck plans to show a mahogany drop-leaf table in the Sheraton style. Dating to about 1800, it will be priced at $650. Mrs. Kilbride also will show several interesting samplers. One dating to 1813 was made by Anna Dodges of New Boston, N.H., when she was about 10 years old. About a foot square, it displays the alphabet in f aded colors. ''The history of the sampler is on the back,'' Mrs. Kilbride said. ''It was written by a great-great-granddaughter, who reframed it in 1938,'' This sampler is priced at $275. Another floral sampler dating to 1793 costs $250. Ed Rogers of Hiddenwell Antiques in Lincroft will have a blanket chest in its original swirled salmon paint. It comes from the Leinbach family of Oley Valley, Pa., and dates to about 1830. The chest, which has been priced at $775, is 52 inches long. It has two bottom drawers and an inside till with two small document drawers below. There will be many quilts at the show. Mr. Rogers is showing an Amish one of cotton with wool fill. It was made around 1920-30 in an Irish triple chain design, and has magenta chains with pink, salmon and green squares. The quilt measures 68 by 70 inches and will be priced at $650. Another dealer, William Horr of Sea Girt, appears at shows under the name of ''The Male Room.'' His offerings include guns, swords, medals, militaria and ancient coins and artifacts. One item is a six-inch American Indian purse that is finely beaded in floral designs of red, green and blue on a white background.Shield-shaped, it was made by woodland Indians, possibly Iroquois, around the turn of the century. The price is $95. An eight-inch tomahawk is $28. ''It was excavated in Middletown,'' Mr. Horr said. ''That was Lenape Indian country. I think it's granite and from about the 18th century.'' Doree Marx of Little Silver will present her collection, ''Linenworks.'' This includes a 128-inch-long white Battenberg lace tablecloth with 12 matching napkins. It is priced at $450. Other ''Linenworks'' items include table and bed linens, quilts, lace pillows and a selection of old-style white pantaloons, which are very much in style right now. They are made of eyelet and lace and cost $20 to $50. Zella Busch of Scarsdale, N.Y., will offer antique jewelry, Wayne Stevenson of Courtside Antiques in Long Branch will have a selection of silver serving pieces and Barbara Hoblitzell of Rahway and East Orleans, Mass., will show porcelains and pottery. Also, wicker furniture, always desirable for shore homes, will be sold by Didi Murray of The Wicker Yard in Long Branch. A New Jersey piece - a four-foot-long swinging cradle with a split banister back and spindled sides -comes from Monmouth County. Made of gum and ash about 1830, the cradle will cost $450. Its owner, Bruce Woolford of Freehold, also will be showing other country furniture, stoneware, tools and boxes. Hours for the show are 10 A.M. to 9 P.M. on Tuesday and 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. on Wednesday. Admission is $2, and lunch will be available in the Parish Hall of the Episcopal church. A symposium on New Jersey painting and ceramics will be held next Saturday at the State Museum, 205 West State Street, Trenton. The registration fee of $10 includes lunch. Reservations can be made by calling (609) 292-6300 by Wednesday. The program is as follows: 9 A.M.: Registration; 10 A.M.: ''The Native Painter's View of Monmouth County's Land and People,'' a talk by Joseph Hammond of the Monmouth County Historical Association; 10:45 A.M.: ''The Lambertville Years of B.J.O. Nordfeldt,'' a talk by Edith Innis, Assistant Curator of Fine Arts, State Museum. Noon: Lunch, followed at l P.M. by ''History of New Jersey Stoneware,'' a talk by Alice Frelinghuysen of the Metropolitan Museum in New York; 1:45 P.M.: ''New Jersey Molded Earthenwares of the 19th Century,'' a talk by Phillip Curtis of the Winterthur Museum in Delaware; 2:30 P.M.: ''Sublime and Sanitary: The Porcelain Industry in Trenton,'' a talk by Ellen Denker, Assistant Curator of Cultural History, State Museum.
SHREWSBURY THE 11th annual Shrewsbury Corners Antiques Show and Sale will be held Tuesday and Wednesday at the Parish Hall of Presbyterian Church on Sycamore Avenue. Sponsored jointly by the church and its neighbor, Christ Church Episcopal, the show will have 28 dealers displaying country antiques and primitives, together with more-elaborate decorative accessories. The two white-shingled churches, with their steeples and neighboring tree-shaded graveyards, stand at a historic crossroads. Presbyterian Church was founded in 1732, and the present building dates to 1821. Christ Church, which is at Sycamore Avenue and Broad Street, was founded in 1702 and has a charter that King George II granted in 1738. The present building dates to 1769. The original weathervane, which is still atop the church, shows damage from musket fire in Revolutionary days.
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400 ATTEND A CONFERENCE ON RUNNING A CO-OP
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More than 400 residents of cooperative apartment buildings in New York City gathered yesterday to learn more about the complex problems they face as building managers. The daylong conference was sponsored by the Council of New York Cooperatives, a private, nonprofit group representing about 100 buildings throughout the city ranging from brownstones to 1,000-apartment dwellings. It was held on the New York University campus. ''We have more technical expertise than the managing agents,'' said Ray W. Hoey, president of the council. All 11 members of the group's executive committee serve on the boards of their buildings. The council was founded in 1975 to pool the knowledge acquired by co-op residents who had transformed themselves from tenants who let landlords and owners worry over the details of business into managers of what amounted to multimillion-dollar enterprises. Yesterday's conference was the group's most ambitious undertaking to date - composed of 25 lectures, technical and philosophical, on topics including taxes, boilers, mortgages, meters, audits, titles and fossil fuel vs. natural gas. The fees ranged from $10 to $60, depending on whether a person was a member of the council. The soaring cost of energy, and devices available to cope with it, was a topic sure to attract board members whose buildings have long been cooperative, according Mr. Hoey. ''We're looking at windows we have never looked at before,'' he said, referring to his own building on West End Avenue, a co-op for seven years. Free Legal Advice The organizers of the conference stressed their personal involvement in the subject at hand. Marc Luxemburg, a lawyer and chairman of the council's executive committee, was asked in one of the classrooms whether he provided legal advice to the board of his West End Avenue building. ''Unfortunately, yes,'' Mr. Luxemburg replied. ''We're too cheap to hire an outsider.'' A number of newcomers to the co-op scene seemed eager to learn anything they could. Seven of the 10 board members of 425 Prospect Place, a five-month-old co-op in the Crown Heights section of Brooklyn, came to the conference and split up strategically to attend as many lectures as possible and compare notes later. ''We're all very concerned,'' said Joanne Nabors, the board president. ''Most of us are tenant shareholders for the first time. Everything's a new concept for us - managing agents, insurance, you name it.'' Five residents of 101 West 12th Street, converted in June 1980, showed up at the gathering. ''The laws are constantly changing,'' said Helen Sisserson, a board member. ''We ended up hiring a professional staff to manage the building, but the tenants have to supervise them,'' said Larry Rosen, explaining the need to keep up to date on housing regulations. The council, which is supported by dues, does not involve itself in questions of whether or how buildings should be converted into a cooperatives, concentrating instead on what happens when the conversion process is completed. Mayor Koch expressed his endorsement of the group's work yesterday through Anthony B. Gliedman, the city's Commissioner of Housing Preservation and Development, who represented Mr. Koch at the conference. ''I have never seen an association more appropriate in time or place than this,'' Mr. Gliedman said. ''Both the Mayor and I want to see this effort continue and expand.''
More than 400 residents of cooperative apartment buildings in New York City gathered yesterday to learn more about the complex problems they face as building managers. The daylong conference was sponsored by the Council of New York Cooperatives, a private, nonprofit group representing about 100 buildings throughout the city ranging from brownstones to 1,000-apartment dwellings. It was held on the New York University campus.
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SYNTHETIC FUEL CHIEF DOUBTS GAS NEED
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WASHINGTON, June 21— The chairman of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation has expressed strong doubts about the need for plants that produce natural gas, raising new fears that the Government may reduce its support for the fledgling industry. Edward E. Noble, who took office a month ago, met last week with officials of the American Natural Resources Company, which is now building the Great Plains Coal Gasification project in North Dakota. He told them that he was concerned that the gas from what would be the nation's first modern-day commercial synthetic fuels plant would cost too much and might not be needed. Mr. Noble would not comment directly on accounts of these talks but they were confirmed by a spokesman for the Synthetic Fuels Corporation. ''Right now he's got real serious questions about it,'' the spokesman declared. Mr. Noble's objections might not be sufficient to kill the Great Plains project, on which work began last summer, since the necessary Federal loan guarantee of up to $2.02 billion could be provided by the Department of Energy. But they were regarded by Congressional and other sources as evidence that Mr. Noble may be moving aggressively to severely limit overall Government support for synthetic fuels. Report Said to Urge Termination Mr. Noble was the Oklahoma businessman who led the Reagan Administration's transition team for synthetic fuels, whose report is said to have recommended that the corporation be terminated. The Synthetic Fuels Corporation was created under a law signed by President Carter last June. It was intended to spur creation of an industry that could produce the synthetic fuels equivalent of 500,000 barrels of oil a day by 1987. It has gotten off to a very slow start, however, and the oil surplus that emerged this spring has now further reduced the sense of urgency that once surrounded the synthetic fuels goals. Some Congressional sources say that they think Mr. Noble, in seeking to affect a project like Great Plains that does not, and might never, come under his jurisdiction, is on a ''mission'' to carry out the recommendations of the transition team. ''He's parachuting into the stadium and saying 'stop the game,' '' one staff aide asserted. ''It's quite offensive.'' When asked about this, the corporation's spokesman said, ''It is true that it is his goal to get the job done and go out of business.'' But he added that if this were taken to mean this would be done in, say, six months or a year, that would be ''an inaccurate interpretation.'' Supporters Mount Defense Meanwhile, political supporters of synthetic fuels have mounted a defense centered on the confirmation proceedings for Synthetic Fuel Corporation board members. Mr. Noble is said to have been pushing to have the White House declare his body fully operational, despite the fact that the other six board members are not yet in place. President Reagan has named five candidates but their formal nominations have not yet reached the Senate. According to a source involved in the confirmation process, James A. McClure, the Idaho Republican who heads the Senate Energy Committee, has told the Administration that the committee was in effect holding the rest of the board hostage until agreement on corporation policy can be reached. Among the prospective board members are Victor A. Schroeder, one of Mr. Noble's best friends, and V.M. Thompson Jr., his banker. The problem-plagued Great Plains project, for which planning began in the early 1970's, now appears to be the vehicle for a showdown over policy. Department of Energy approval of the Great Plains loan guarantee, which Energy Secretary James B. Edwards has repeatedly said he supported, would be regarded by many as a rebuke to Mr. Noble. Senior presidential aides are said to have told Mr. Edwards the decision is his. D.O.E. Might Administer If granted, the loan guarantee would probably remain within the department to be administered, since it could not be transferred to the Synthetic Fuels Corporation unless the corporation voted to accept the project for its portfolio. American Natural Resources, caught in the political crossfire, now says that unless the guarantee is approved soon it might have to scrub the project in which it has $65 million already at risk. ''After nine years of effort we have finally reached the starting gate,'' a company spokesman said late last week. But a decision has to be made by month's end, he indicated, if another building season is not to slip by, thereby escalating costs still further. ''It's not a matter of weeks anymore,'' said the spokesman for American Natural Resources, which has set similar deadlines on previous occasions. ''We're talking about days.''
The chairman of the Synthetic Fuels Corporation has expressed strong doubts about the need for plants that produce natural gas, raising new fears that the Government may reduce its support for the fledgling industry. Edward E. Noble, who took office a month ago, met last week with officials of the American Natural Resources Company, which is now building the Great Plains Coal Gasification project in North Dakota. He told them that he was concerned that the gas from what would be the nation's first modern-day commercial synthetic fuels plant would cost too much and might not be needed. Mr. Noble would not comment directly on accounts of these talks but they were confirmed by a spokesman for the Synthetic Fuels Corporation.
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FRENCH VOTE GIVES SOCIALISTS CONTROL OF THE PARLIAMENT
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PARIS, June 20— In a sweeping victory, somewhat exceeding predictions, the Socialist Party was given a majority in the National Assembly by French voters today, thus assuring President Francois Mitterrand of full government power. The Socialists, along with their centrist electoral allies, the small Radical Left Movement, will hold between 280 and 293 seats, according to projections. Even without the Radicals, whose total was projected at between 15 and 18 seats, the Socialists will control the 491-seat legislative chamber until the next elections in 1986. Today's vote, the second round in a two-stage process, chose between the two candidates selected in each district in last Sunday's first round. It gave the Communist Party a total of 43 seats, less than half of its previous tally, and reduced the two allied parties of the right from a combined total of 274 to a figure projected at between 150 and 160 seats. The results were hailed by the Socialist Party leader, Lionel Jospin. ''A new political generation has been raised to responsibility,'' he said. ''We will show tolerance, the taste for dialogue we have always demonstrated with respect for others' ideas. I hope the new opposition will show the same.'' Leaders of the defeated conservative parties expressed resignation coupled with sharp foreboding for the future of France. Jacques Chirac, leader of the Gaullists, said: ''France is setting out on a road that will only lead to disappointment. Socialist methods will fail here as they have everywhere.'' Saying that ''we are the voyage and the hope,'' Mr. Chirac appealed for the new opposition to rally around him. This was countered by Michel Poniatowski, a leading figure among the rival supporters of former President Valery Giscard d'Estaing. Mr. Poniatowski said Mr. Giscard d'Estaing remained the hope of the country. Bitter Rivalry Exists There is not much likelihood of an effective parliamentary opposition in the near future, both because of the scale of the Socialist victory and because of the bitter rivalry between Mr. Chirac and Mr. Giscard d'Estaing. After today's election, Mr. Mitterrand's first task will be to form a Cabinet to replace the interim one he appointed after his election as President on May 10. He is expected to keep Pierre Mauroy as Prime Minister but to make a number of other changes. The question that both politicians and commentators have been speculating about for the past weeks is whether he will include any Communists. Tonight, right after the first projections were reported, the Communist leadership, describing the results as a kind of victory, immediately laid claim to joining the Government. ''It was our votes that elected Mitterrand and the Socialist majority,'' Georges Marchais, the party's Secretary General, said in a television interview. He was referring to the fact that in the second round of both the presidential and legislative elections, the Communists supported the Socialist candidates. In the legislative elections this held true only where the Communist candidates had trailed the Socialist in the first round and were therefore eliminated for the second. The claim by Mr. Marchais that his party's most serious defeat since World War II was a joint victory with the Socialists brought laughs from the television studio audience. All the members of the party's Secretariat except Mr. Marchais lost their Assembly seats; so did 6 of the 11 members of the Political Bureau. The party's percentage of the vote stands at 16, compared to the 20 to 22 percent average it maintained for a dozen years. Nevertheless, Mr. Marchais went on to announce that his party was prepared to be a loyal junior partner in a Mitterrand Cabinet and wanted to join. The Socialists have taken the public position that the Communists would be entitled to a few ministries if they formally agreed to support Socialist policies, including a number of strongly pro-Western positions in foreign and defense policy, such as support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Privately, party leaders, who have fought the Communists bitterly over the past few years, are divided on the advisability of bringing them in. The decision will be made by Mr. Mitterrand in the next few days. Tonight a Socialist spokesman, Jean Poperen, sounded skeptical. There were some serious disagreements between the parties, he said, notably on the extent to which nationalization will be carried out. High Rate of Astentions Today's vote, like the first round last Sunday, was carried out with what by French standards was a high rate of abstention. Only about 75 percent of the registered voters cast their ballots, which was 5 percent more than last Sunday. But despite the efforts of the conservative parties to bring out those who abstained in the belief that they were mostly voters of the right, the results did not vary much from a week ago. The combined left won about 55 percent of the vote; the combined right about 45 percent. The Socialist victory cemented in the four votes over the past two months is the biggest political change in France since Charles de Gaulle came out of retirement in 1958 to found the Fifth Republic and a conservative dynasty that has just ended. It is the only the second time since World War II that a single party has been able to control the national legislature by itself. The first occasion was in 1968, when the Gaullists were in this position. Illustrations: photo of President Francois Mitterrand of France
In a sweeping victory, somewhat exceeding predictions, the Socialist Party was given a majority in the National Assembly by French voters today, thus assuring President Francois Mitterrand of full government power. The Socialists, along with their centrist electoral allies, the small Radical Left Movement, will hold between 280 and 293 seats, according to projections. Even without the Radicals, whose total was projected at between 15 and 18 seats, the Socialists will control the 491-seat legislative chamber until the next elections in 1986. Today's vote, the second round in a two-stage process, chose between the two candidates selected in each district in last Sunday's first round. It gave the Communist Party a total of 43 seats, less than half of its previous tally, and reduced the two allied parties of the right from a combined total of 274 to a figure projected at between 150 and 160 seats.
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NOTES ON PEOPLE - Reagan on How Extra Cash Can Be Spent in a Flash - NYTimes.com
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A hitherto-unpublished poem Ronald Reagan wrote in 1974, when he was Governor of California, indicates that the budget-cutting with which he now seems preoccupied is nothing new to him. The poem was solicited by Michael Spring, editor of Literary Cavalcade, an anthology of contemporary literature for high school students, published by Scholastic Magazines. In a letter to Mr. Spring, Governor Reagan wrote: ''I agree with you. It is important that polititians show they are capable of at least trying to write poetry. It's a challenge. I'm enclosing two efforts for your consideration.'' Mr. Spring published a Reagan poem called ''Time,'' but, he said yesterday, ''I spiked one called 'State Budget' because of quality considerations.'' The Reagan letter and the two typewritten poems will be sold at auction April 30 by Charles Hamilton, the autograph dealer. Here, published for the first time, is Mr. Reagan's ''State Budget'': A surplus? I said. A surplus! he said. The State has a surplus. Not a deficit -A surplus, instead. Unheard of? I said. Unheard of! he said. It's almost unheard of - and each legislator will soon have it spent in his head. No! Let's give it back! I said. Give it back? he said. But you can't do that. They'll send you a bill To create a new bureau. Just like that! I'll sign it! I said. I'll sign it, then blue line it. And with no money, What good's the bureau Without the crat? Mr. Hamilton said he expected the letter and the poem manuscripts to bring about $200 at auction.
A hitherto-unpublished poem Ronald Reagan wrote in 1974, when he was Governor of California, indicates that the budget-cutting with which he now seems preoccupied is nothing new to him. The poem was solicited by Michael Spring, editor of Literary Cavalcade, an anthology of contemporary literature for high school students, published by Scholastic Magazines.
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AUTO LABOR GROUPS AGREE TO CONSIDER REOPENING PACTS
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DETROIT, Dec. 21— The United Automobile Workers said today that its General Motors and Ford councils would meet on Jan. 8 in Chicago to consider reopening current labor contracts with the two big auto manufacturers. Union leaders have been polling the officials of locals who make up the councils since Dec. 9, when the U.A.W. executive board dropped a prohibition on reopening contracts. It is unlikely the union's leaders would have called another meeting unless sentiment had changed since March 19, when the councils voted to oppose renegotiating the contract. The manufacturers have been complaining forcefully about the cost of the labor component of American automobiles, in relation to the labor costs of their Japanese competitors. The union, increasingly troubled about layoffs in the industry, hope that reopening contract talks might produce job-security promises in return for wage or fringe-benefit concessions. They are also said to be worried about taking the blame for the industry's depressed state. Donald Ephlin, the director of the union's Ford department, said, ''I want to discuss the disastrous shape Ford Motor Company is in and what can be done to protect the jobs of the Ford workers.'' Layoffs at a High Level Owen Bieber, head of the union's G.M. department, said: ''Indefinite layoffs at G.M. right now are at their highest level in months, and the prospects for the immediate future don't look optimistic. The time has come to meet as a council and talk about these difficulties.'' The approval of the councils, which have about 525 members, would be needed before talks to change an existing contract or negotiations on a new one could begin. The current contract ends in September 1982. Last week, the union's small American Motors council agreed to begin discussing that company's proposal to defer $150 million in scheduled wage increases in the next two years. The money would be repaid with interest starting in 1984. Although it now appears likely that negotiations at G.M. and Ford will begin early next year, it is less clear what the rank-and-file members would give up in return for the increased job security the union has said it will demand. Nevertheless, top executives of General Motors and Ford are treating the talks as a historic opportunity to gain the upper hand over the union. Ironically, it is the depressed state of auto sales that could give them leverage at the bargaining table. Mandate to Control Labor Costs The immensely profitable automobile industry of the past often found it cheaper to give in to most union demands to avoid lengthy strikes. ''Nobody wanted to lose megabucks in a six-or eight-week strike,'' said Donald E. Petersen, the president of Ford. ''But that was before the Japanese appeared on the scene. Now we've got no choice but to get our costs under control.'' The executives of auto companies have spent the last year emphasizing what they say is an $8-per-hour difference between the cost of American and Japanese labor. They say that this gap has to be narrowed, if not eliminated, if the domestic manufacturers are to compete with Japanese imports. Otherwise, they argue, an increasing share of manufacturing that once took place in the United States will be shifted overseas. Mr. Petersen said that Ford would attempt to get agreement on an early deadline to avoid having the talks drag on until the contract expires in September. Sales are expected to improve by then, and that, by dispelling some of the depression within the industry, could increase the manufacturers' vulnerability to a strike. An agreement to consider reopening a contract represents an extraordinary concession by the United Automobile Workers. The only other time a contract in force was modified was in 1953, and that was at the union's insistence. Sensitivity to Public Opinion ''The international union was pushed into it,'' said a labor relations executive in Detroit who is not involved in the maneuvers. ''They are sensitive to public opinion and realized that the U.A.W. just can't afford to get the whole world down on them.'' Nevertheless, he said that it would be difficult for union leaders to win ratification of reductions in wages or benefits as long as G.M. and Ford continue to pay dividends. ''Look at Ford,'' he said. ''Every time they pay a dividend, millions of dollars go directly to the Ford family. That won't play well with the rank and file.'' Both companies have been imposing layoffs and cuts in fringe benefits on white-collar employees. In addition to the financial benefits, the cuts are also interpreted as a gesture to assembly line workers that others are sharing the pain. Charlie B. Persinger is unimpressed. He is president of Local 2093 of the union in Three Rivers, Mich. ''We're not here to give up what we've won over the years,'' he said. ''The white-collar guys never get hit as bad as us.'' Slump's Penalties Unevenly Felt Mr. Persinger's pugnacious attitude reflects prosperity among his members and gives an indication of the uneven effects of the slump in auto sales. This is particularly so at General Motors. While the industry has more than 200,000 workers on layoff, the Three Rivers transmissions plant has not had a layoff since it was opened in 1979. The uneven distribution of layoffs has produced a split in the ranks, according to Gene Brook, director of the Labor Studies Center at Wayne State University here. ''There's not much solidarity in the union anymore,'' he said. ''You could have a situation where the guys with a lot of seniority aren't willing to give up anything to help the younger ones.'' An official of the Chrysler Corporation said that hourly workers had barely approved contract concessions by a margin of 52 percent to 48. He said, ''We made it by a swing of just 2 percent and it was clear we were going bankrupt.''
The United Automobile Workers said today that its General Motors and Ford councils would meet on Jan. 8 in Chicago to consider reopening current labor contracts with the two big auto manufacturers. Union leaders have been polling the officials of locals who make up the councils since Dec. 9, when the U.A.W. executive board dropped a prohibition on reopening contracts. It is unlikely the union's leaders would have called another meeting unless sentiment had changed since March 19, when the councils voted to oppose renegotiating the contract. The manufacturers have been complaining forcefully about the cost of the labor component of American automobiles, in relation to the labor costs of their Japanese competitors. The union, increasingly troubled about layoffs in the industry, hope that reopening contract talks might produce job-security promises in return for wage or fringe-benefit concessions. They are also said to be worried about taking the blame for the industry's depressed state.
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CREDIT MARKETS - Treasury Notes Bring 13.79% - Issue-Heavy Market Weak - NYTimes.com
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Prices of fixed-income debt issues continued to sag yesterday as the credit markets accommodated the week's numerous large borrowings. But given the reluctance of the retail trade, mainly the large institutions, to buy anything but short-term securities, dealers said the price declines were relatively modest in all sectors of the market. The Treasury led the list of borrowers, when it raised $3.25 billion of ''new cash'' by auctioning 62-month notes. New cash means that none of the funds will be used to retire Treasury debt. The auction produced an average return to investors of 13.79 percent a year for $1,000 notes carrying a 13.75 percent coupon. That contrasted with the 13.52 percent yield on the last comparable issue sold last Dec. 3, and was the highest return since last March 3, when the yield was 14.39 percent. Last Tuesday, the Treasury borrowed $4.75 billion on two-year notes, with roughly half the proceeds earmarked for the refunding of maturing debt. ''Over all, we haven't seen such large borrowings in so few days in a long time,'' said Robert P. Falkenhagen, vice president of the First Boston Corporation. ''Add this to the fact that dealers are very wary about carrying inventory at today's bank rates, and one can see why prices have been under pressure. In terms of corporate bond prices, the cost of carrying inventory overnight works out to an eighth of a point.'' Indeed, the $275 million New Jersey Telephone 14 3/8 percent debentures, which sold at 98.8 for a 14 3/8 percent coupon last Tuesday for a record Ma Bell yield of 14.8 percent, fell to 98 yesterday. The federally backed $400 million Chrysler issue was priced yesterday at 98 for a 14.9 percent coupon to yield 15.30 percent. The yield is about 200 basis points over comparable Treasury maturities. Older corporates tended to be a touch easier in dull trading, as were prices in the tax-exempt sector. Richard B. Hoey, money market economist at Bache Halsey Stuart Shields Inc., observed: ''The credit market is not only illiquid, but very nervous. It has no idea of what the President's economic program will look like when it moves through the Congressional grinder. Bond buyers have had three devastating shocks in the last 15 months because of changes in fiscal policy. Today, nobody pays any notice to what the Government or Federal Reserve says; only what they do.'' Uncertainty Echoed The uncertainty he spoke of was echoed by dealers in the Treasury debt market, where the major news was the President's comments that his proposed budget reductions were still insufficient and would have to be deeper. These remarks, reported Wednesday, caused short and long-term Treasury issues to open weak yesterday. But as the market awaited the results of the Treasury's latest borrowing, prices in all sectors of the Government market tended to recover somewhat to close with only slight markdowns. As he waited, one Government dealer noted: ''Today's Treasury borrowing will be a 'street issue,' because the retail trade is not eager to pick up anything but T-bills and other short-term instruments.'' Meanwhile, the closely watched rate on Federal funds - excess funds that banks lend each other overnight -moved modestly in a range of 15 to 15.75 percent. This led some dealers to think that the Fed is comfortable with this range. The Fed's activity yesterday consisted of entering the market at noon with $1.8 billion in repurchase agreements for a foreign central bank client. While this created a brief flurry of comment, dealers noted that such transactions rarely provide any significant clues to the Fed's money operations or policies. Details of the Treasury's auction of $3.25 billion of 62-month notes follow: (000 omitted in dollar figures) Average Price 99.683 verage Yield 13.79% Low Price High Yield 13.81% High Price 99.865 Low Yield Accepted at low 44% applied for $7,938,565 Accepted N.Y. applied for $6,832,782 .Y. accepted $2,751,262 ncompetitive This issue will mature May 15, 1986.
Prices of fixed-income debt issues continued to sag yesterday as the credit markets accommodated the week's numerous large borrowings. But given the reluctance of the retail trade, mainly the large institutions, to buy anything but short-term securities, dealers said the price declines were relatively modest in all sectors of the market. The Treasury led the list of borrowers, when it raised $3.25 billion of ''new cash'' by auctioning 62-month notes. New cash means that none of the funds will be used to retire Treasury debt. The auction produced an average return to investors of 13.79 percent a year for $1,000 notes carrying a 13.75 percent coupon.
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OIL-SAVING PLANS FACE U.S. ATTACK
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WASHINGTON, March 26— The Department of Energy has drafted legislation to eliminate or cut back severely nearly all its programs to encourage energy conservation and to develop renewable fuel sources and other alternatives to oil. The Reagan Administration has already begun to chop back these programs through the budgetary process. The proposed law would dismantle most of them and greatly reduce funding levels for the rest. The long list of Federal programs affected by the proposed legislation includes: solar energy research and development, wind energy and ocean thermal development, research on electric vehicles and methane-fueled transport, residential energy efficiency, energy conservation for commercial buildings, consumer education on energy conservation, small-scale hydroelectric projects and energy audits by public utilities. A memorandum explaining the proposed legislation, prepared in the general counsel's office of the department, said that ''enactment of this legislation will have no environmental impact because the market forces freed by decontrol of oil prices will naturally encourage energy conservation and adoption of the most efficient technologies.'' The legislative proposal seemingly is at odds with an unpublished study conducted for the Energy Department, which concluded that heavy investments to promote energy efficiency and the use of renewable resources could virtually eliminate the need to import oil. Encouraging Production The study, carried out for the department during the Carter Administration by the Solar Research Institute in Golden, Colo., said that the adoption of such a strategy could enable the United States to cut its energy consumption by 25 percent by the end of the century. The Reagan Administration has rejected that approach. It favors encouraging the production of oil and other conventional energy sources through market forces. The memorandum explaining the proposed legislation said that it was necessary to ''terminate'' Federal programs that can be performed ''more effectively, efficiently or appropriately by states, local governments or the private sector.'' The memorandum also said that the legislation was needed to control spending on Federal regulatory programs ''that impose unnecessary or excessive burdens on states, local governments, private industry and the public'' and to ''remove impediments in the law that inhibit market forces.'' The memo estimated that enactment of the bill would save the department $1.85 billion over the next five years. Edwin L. Dale Jr., spokesman for the Office of Management and Budget, said that enactment of the legislation to eliminate or cut back the conservation and alternate energy programs was not a high Administration priority now because the same goals could be achieved through the budget appropriations process. But he added that the legislation was wanted at some point in order to get the programs ''permanently off the books.'' In another development, the Reagan Administration has decided to lift the ban on oil and gas drilling in two marine sanctuaries off the coast of California.
The Department of Energy has drafted legislation to eliminate or cut back severely nearly all its programs to encourage energy conservation and to develop renewable fuel sources and other alternatives to oil. The Reagan Administration has already begun to chop back these programs through the budgetary process. The proposed law would dismantle most of them and greatly reduce funding levels for the rest.
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REPORT CITES SWEATSHOP ABUSES
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Garment trucking companies with ties to organized crime and exploitative Seventh Avenue manufacturers bear a major responsibility for conditions in garment factory sweatshops in New York City, State Senator Franz Leichter charged yesterday. In a report analyzing the growth of such sweatshops, Senator Leichter asserted that ''organized crime families are apparently substantially in control of the sweatshop industry'' through their powerful garment trucking companies. The report named the Gambino and Lucchese families as linked to at least two of the handful of trucking companies that dominate garment trucking in New York. At the same time, Senator Leichter said, a number of Seventh Avenue manufacturers have reduced the prices that they pay to sweatshop contractors for piecework, despite the operators' rising costs. Chinatown contractors now receive about $3.50 to produce a dress, down from $6 in 1977, the report said. The overall result of the truckers' high charges and the manufacturers' low payments, Senator Leichter said, has been to depress the level of wages and working conditions for sweatshop employees. According to the Senator, as many as 50,000 people work in an estimated 3,000 sweatshops in New York, most of them earning no more than $15 for an eight-hour day. The Senator introduced legislation that would empower the state to register all contractors and trucking companies, and to set trucking rates within the city. According to the report, the trucking companies charge sweatshop operators exorbitantly high prices for carrying goods, while restraining them from seeking lower rates elsewhere. The going rate for moving a dress from Chinatown to the midtown garment district is about 24 cents, the report said, although outside truckers said that a 10-cent rate would be reasonable. Fear of Reprisals Cited Contractors expressed fear that they would be hurt or their buildings burned down if they tried to change trucker charges, the Senator said. In a number of cases, the report said, the truckers also lend contractors the money to set up sweatshops and arrange for work for these shops. The ''take'' from trucking overcharges in Chinatown alone is approximately $9.3 million annually, the Senator said. The trucking companies named in the report included the Consolidated Carrier Corporation, which the report said is owned by Thomas and Joseph Gambino, sons of the late Carlo Gambino, the organized crime figure; Interstate Dress Carriers; Lucky Apparel Carriers, and Stallion Carriers, which the report said is the major trucker for the northern Manhattan apparel contractors. Neither of the Gambino brothers has a criminal record, the report said. Herbert Burstein, the attorney for Consolidated, dismissed the report's allegations as ''absolute hogwash. Trucking rates are competitive,'' he asserted. ''Contractors have complete freedom to find their own truckers.'' At Interstate, Barry Pollack, administrative general manager, denied that the company was involved in intracity trucking. Bernard Greene, the attorney for Interstate, said that the company had no connection with organized crime. Executives at Lucky and Stallion were not in their offices yesterday afternoon and could not be reached for comment. The report's charge that manufacturers had cut their payments to contractors was denied by Eli Elias, executive director of the New York Skirt and Sportswear Association.
Garment trucking companies with ties to organized crime and exploitative Seventh Avenue manufacturers bear a major responsibility for conditions in garment factory sweatshops in New York City, State Senator Franz Leichter charged yesterday. In a report analyzing the growth of such sweatshops, Senator Leichter asserted that ''organized crime families are apparently substantially in control of the sweatshop industry'' through their powerful garment trucking companies. The report named the Gambino and Lucchese families as linked to at least two of the handful of trucking companies that dominate garment trucking in New York.
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CONSUMER SATURDAY - WHAT'S IN BOOK ON REBATES? - NYTimes.com
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W ITH everyone so inflation conscious these days, a book that seems to offer savings on a wide range of household appliances, cars, cosmetics and other goods is likely to have wide appeal. ''The Great American Rebate Book,'' a 320-page, $3.95 paperback, is meant to be a more permanent collection of the coupons and special offers seen in magazines and newspapers. ''We came up with the idea last May,'' said David Manning, a former marketing manager for H.J. Heinz and the publisher of Riverbrook Publishing. ''Inflation was a major problem, and we saw the growth of couponing.'' According to Mr. Manning, 85 percent of all American households use coupons to beat inflation. ''They're also a way for manufacturers to get people to try new products,'' he said. The first edition of 300,000 copies of ''The Great American Rebate Book'' is directed to markets in the Northeast and will be introduced in bookstores and supermarkets on March 4. Mr. Manning and his partner, Amnon Bar-Tur, the president of Riverbrook Publishing, negotiated with manufacturers to have them place offers in the book. Depending on the nature of the offer and the manufacturers' promotional plans, the offers were included free or for a charge of up to $6,000 for two pages. ''We wanted to create values, by using manufacturers's special offers and passing these offers on to consumers,'' said Mr. Bar-Tur. ''We're in the business of selling books.'' The partners conceded that sometimes the products will be available at lower prices than those offered in the book. ''Stores have sales and specials, for a week or so,'' Mr. Manning said. ''But the offers in the book are good for as long as the manufacturers say.'' For the most part, they are limited to the 1981 calendar year. Some manufacturers will send cash rebates on proof of purchase; others will ship their products at discounted prices, if the products are ordered directly through the book. The order, made out on a form at the back of the book and accompanied by a check or charge card number, is sent to a company in Connecticut, which sends the customer a confirmation and processes the order by turning it over to the manufacturer or its distributors. The prices in the book include insurance, shipping and warranty. Some manufacturers expressed surprise at having being included in the book. ''I didn't know about it,'' said Dick Owen, advertising and sales promotion manager of Revere Copper and Brass, ''but now that I do, we'll do our best to fulfill the orders.'' And there was confusion on the use of the word ''rebate.'' When a product is offered at less than its ''list'' price, it is in fact discounted, not rebated. ''We never give rebates,'' said Jack Carver, general manager of Braun Appliances, U.S.A., who said that the company's inclusion in the book was ''through a misunderstanding.'' ''We will try to accommodate any consumers who respond to the offer,'' he added. ''But we'll not be in future editions of the book.'' The two Braun appliances offered in the book, a KSM-2 coffee grinder for $19.95 and a MPZ-2 Citromatic juicer for $31.95, are available at Macy's for $26 and $45. Zabar's discounts them for $17.95 and $27.95. The book promises big savings on many products and some prices are below those of department stores. A 20-piece set of Franciscan dinnerware, for example, is $77.95 compared with $132.50 at Macy's. But there are few real bargains for savvy shoppers. Many of the book's offerings may be available to New Yorkers for the same or lower prices. Moulinex's Moulin-Air convection oven, offered for $119.95 through the book, is $110 at Bernie's Discount Center, 821 Sixth Avenue; it is generally around $200 in department stores. The Presto popcorn popper, $25.90 ordered through the book, is $21.99 at Bernie's and $22 on sale at Macy's. And shoppers must want the particular model offered; they don't have the range of choices available in a store. A random check of some of the other offers included a call to Merle Norman Studios, a make-up concern. ''All you need for your Merle Norman makeover is this coupon ... and your own special face,'' reads the offer on page 104 . ''We do it anyway for free, you don't actually need the coupon,'' said Steve Morton, who answered the company's 800 number and whose job it is to direct callers to the Merle Norman Studio nearest them. ''Even though we probably agreed to be in the book, we would do the makeovers free anyway because that's what we've been advertising for the last three years.'' Purchase of the book includes free membership in the Money Saver Club, a telephone shopping service. When asked for a price on a Sony television set this week, the service offered to ship one for the same price as that model at Macy's, without any saving. Suzanne Slesin
W ITH everyone so inflation conscious these days, a book that seems to offer savings on a wide range of household appliances, cars, cosmetics and other goods is likely to have wide appeal. ''The Great American Rebate Book,'' a 320-page, $3.95 paperback, is meant to be a more permanent collection of the coupons and special offers seen in magazines and newspapers. ''We came up with the idea last May,'' said David Manning, a former marketing manager for H.J. Heinz and the publisher of Riverbrook Publishing. ''Inflation was a major problem, and we saw the growth of couponing.''
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STUDY ON WATERWAY PLEASES BOTH SIDES
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WASHINGTON, May 23— Both sides in a Congressional battle over the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Alabama have taken heart from a General Accounting Office report on the huge project of locks and dams. Opponents cited the report's warning that the project would create a new navigation bottleneck that would cost $1 billion more to remove. Supporters applauded the agency's questioning whether the $600 million that could be saved by halting construction would be worth the loss of the $1.1 billion already invested in the project and whether this saving would offset the loss of the $137 million in annual revenues that the waterway might eventually produce. The 232-mile project is comparable in complexity to the Panama Canal and the largest ever undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. It is to link the Tennessee river, at a point near Florence, Ala., with the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway at Demopolis, Ala., through a series of locks and artifical lakes on the Tombigbee. From there, barge traffic could continue southward on the Tombigbee 217 miles to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile. The project is scheduled for completion by 1988 at a total cost of more than $1.96 billion. Arguments of the Opponents Since construction began in 1971 on the Tenn-Tom, as it is called, its opponents, who include most of the large conservation organizations and several Southern railroads, have contended that, at its current cost of $20 million a month, it is outrageously expensive and a needless attempt to duplicate the navigational facilities of the Mississippi River. They also contend that in building it the Corps of Engineers is destroying thousands of acres of wildlife habitat. On three occasions the antiwaterway forces have come close to stopping it. Two years ago a Federal judge in Mississippi declared that there were indications that the corps had exceeded its authority in digging a wider channel, at much greater expense, than Congress had envisioned. But he ruled that the plaintiffs, the Environmental Defense Fund and the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, had filed their case too late. Last June a move in the House to cut off all Tenn-Tom construction money failed by only 20 votes. A week later Southern supporters of the project, who contend it will provide a vitally needed inland shipping lane from the upper South to the Gulf, won by only nine votes on a bill to add $58 million to the project's 1980 appropriation. Last month a Senate Budget subcommittee indicated that it would seek to cut $175 million out of the 1982 budget for the project, leaving only $25 million with which to settle existing contracts and halt construction. Alignment by Regions This year the opposition in Congress was developing along regional lines, with members of both parties from the Northeast, Middle West and Far West joined in contending the money should be redirected toward what they called desperately needed water supply and transportation improvements in their areas. ''Now that there is so much pressure to cut Government spending, there are a lot more fiscal conservatives in the House who want to take a much harder look at a dubious project where enough dirt to build a highway to the moon is being excavated,'' said Representative Robert W. Edgar, Democrat of Pennsylvania. The accounting office report had a different meaning to powerful Southern Senators such as Howard H. Baker Jr. of Tennessee, the Republican leader, and John C. Stennis, Democrat of Mississippi, who in the past have succeeded in blocking all attempts to curtail the project. ''The G.A.O. confirmed that if the Tenn-Tom were terminated now, enormous and urgently needed transportation benefits would be sacrificed and the investment made to date of nearly a billion dollars would be completely lost,'' Senator Stennis declared Thursday. New Study Requested Mr. Edgar, with Representative Joel Pritchard, Republican of Washington, had asked the G.A.O., the Congressional oversight agency, for a new study of the project. They were joined in this request by Senators Charles H. Percy, Republican of Illinois; William Proxmire, Democrat of Wisconsin; Carl Levin, Democrat of Michigan, and J. Bennett Johnston, Democrat of Louisiana. In its report, the agency said that in deciding whether to continue the construction Congress should understand that potential barge traffic would be impeded by the bottleneck at Demopolis. While the accounting office said in its report that it was not recommending either continuing or halting the project, it added: ''We believe that if the decision is made to continue it is likely that Congress will be urged to remove the Demopolis bottleneck. The Corps of Engineers has stated that in its opinion the improvements are likely to be needed within 10 years and the push for them is going to be immense.'' The report also qustioned the corps' conclusions about how much in transportation costs could be saved by the barge line operators who might use the waterway when it was completed. The report went on to declare that with the Florence-to-Demopolis section of waterway now more than half completed, many of the issues once considered critical were no longer as important. It said that now there were only two major issues remaining to be decided. ''Is the Congress, in approving Tenn-Tom's completion, sowing the seeds for a future project to eliminate the Demopolis bottleneck at a cost of at least an additional $960 million?'' the agency asked. ''Or is the approximately $600 million to be saved by halting the project worth the almost total loss of the approximately $1.1 billion already invested in a project that is 53 percent completed?''
Both sides in a Congressional battle over the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway in Alabama have taken heart from a General Accounting Office report on the huge project of locks and dams. Opponents cited the report's warning that the project would create a new navigation bottleneck that would cost $1 billion more to remove. Supporters applauded the agency's questioning whether the $600 million that could be saved by halting construction would be worth the loss of the $1.1 billion already invested in the project and whether this saving would offset the loss of the $137 million in annual revenues that the waterway might eventually produce. The 232-mile project is comparable in complexity to the Panama Canal and the largest ever undertaken by the Army Corps of Engineers. It is to link the Tennessee river, at a point near Florence, Ala., with the Black Warrior-Tombigbee Waterway at Demopolis, Ala., through a series of locks and artifical lakes on the Tombigbee. From there, barge traffic could continue southward on the Tombigbee 217 miles to the Gulf of Mexico at Mobile.
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RED-CLAD DISCIPLES OF AN INDIAN GURU BUILD A FARM COMMUNITY IN OREGON
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ANTELOPE, Ore., Sept. 24— It seems an unlikely spot for a wispy, ailing Indian guru's dream of a ''city of god'' to take earthly form, but the physical evidence of that city is growing dramatically in the barren, lion-colored hills 20 miles southwest of here - and with it the fears of many residents of this tiny town that they will be inundated by the guru's red-clad disciples. Last July 10, little more than a week after he abandoned his oncethriving ashram at Poona, India, for one in Montclair, N.J., the dedicated followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, some of whom regard him as a god, bought 64,228 acres of rugged, rocky ranchland straddling Wasco and Jefferson Counties here in central Oregon. The buyers, sannyasin, or disciples, from the guru's Chidvilas Rajneesh Meditation Center at Montclair, paid $6 million for the land, a quarter of it in cash, and leased 17,000 acres from the United States Bureau of Land Management. Transforming Fallow Land The disciples here, a handful at first and now about 130, immediately began transforming the Big Muddy Ranch, fallow for two decades, into the foundation of an agricultural and spiritual commune, called Rajneeshpuram, or ''City of Rajneesh.'' Two weeks ago, the 49-year-old Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh took up residence in a complex of double-wide mobile housing units here. It was set up in only five days by his energetic disciples, each uniformly clad in vermillion and wearing a 108-bead necklace with his picture. The disciples here maintain that their purpose is purely agricultural, as the development so far suggests: an extensive irrigation system being laid, 2,500 acres cleared for planting and 150 acres already verdant with sunflowers. However, some area residents and observers of the sect are not convinced and hear echoes of Jim Jones's Jonestown rather than the whisper of wind through fields of wheat. Ironically, Shannon Jo Ryan, daughter of Representative Leo J. Ryan of California, who was slain in 1978 while investigating Jonestown, became a disciple in Poona and lives at Rajneeshpuram. The local peoples' fears are fueled by the publicly stated aim of the leader, whose followers are said to number from 100,000 to 250,000 in 400 centers worldwide, to create a spiritual community ''isolated from the outside world'' and unfettered by traditional values. Compounding the suspicions are the guru's reputation as India's ''free-sex guru'' and accounts of violent ''encounter'' sessions at the Poona ashram in which participants were beaten severely and encouraged to act out their most violent fantasies, including rape, to cleanse themselves of aggression. Violence in such sessions is no longer practiced, followers say. Charges of Mind Control Some former disciples maintain that the guru's advocacy of unbridled freedom masks what is in fact mind control. One of these disaffected followers is a German filmmaker, Wolfgang Dobrowolny, whose documentary film ''Ashram'' depicts violence and nude group sessions at the Poona ashram. Thirty-three-year-old Sheela Silverman, known as Ma Anand Sheela, who founded the New Jersey center 10 years ago with her late husband, M arc Silverma n, and now directs the Oregon enterprise, denies the charges of mi nd control. ''You can live anywhere, do anything you want to do,'' she said in an interview in her trailer office here, ''as long as you have a consciousness of being,'' said to be the fundamental precept of the guru's teaching. Mrs. Silverman said that the group had settled in Oregon because ''it is a perfect situation for farming'' and because the dry climate was desirable on account of the guru's allergies and respiratory problems. He had to leave India ''for health reasons,'' she said. Conflicts in India Others suggest the guru's departure from Poona might have had more to do with conflicts with fellow Indians, shocked by his admonitions to discard stern sexual mores. ''He attacked all Indian religions, many politicians and even the Nobel Prize winner, Mother Teresa,'' wrote Mr. Dobrowolny, the filmmaker, in his notes on the making of ''Ashram.'' The film had its American premiere in San Francisco earlier this month. The guru's lectures at Poona, collected in 250 volumes and captured on sound and videotapes, are markete d worldwide. The materials, in English, are now mailed from An telope and marketed through a national advertising campaign. A re cent advertisement in Time magazine and other publications, part of a series that covered subjects other than sex, raised the sexual th eme and added to concern both here and in Montclair. Although no training sessions areconducted here or in Montclair, other centers continue to offer a potpourri of Eastern mysticism and ''new age' ' therapies. Spiritual Smorgasbord The brochure for the Geetam Rajneesh Sannyas Ashram at Lucerne Valley, Calif., offers ''Gestalt and primal therapies, psychosynthesis, bioenergetics, psychodrama, rebirthing and psychic phenomenon; Freudian and Jungian therapists, sex therapist encounters, Reichian and neo-Reichian therapists, Rolfing, postural integration, Alexander work, Traeger work and massage; Shiatsu, acupuncture, Zen Buddhism, Taoism and Sufism.'' ''I call it a smorgasbord,'' said Josh Baran, a 30-year-old former Zen Buddhist monk, who now directs a Berkeley counseling service called ''Sorting It Out'' to help former members of religious groups - he avoids the word ''cult'' - to readjust. ''The issue is not free sex, the issue is about giving your life over to others and excesses that come up in the sexual groups and encounters,'' Mr. Baran said. ''When a person becomes a sannyasin, or joins any religious group, they stop being themselves.'' Mrs. Silverman, or Ma Anand Sheela, invites critics and journalists to take a guided tour of the town, a beehive of activity. A hundredodd red-suited disciples and a score of blue-jeaned outside workers are using heavy equpment to carve a modern farm community out of the rugged hills. At one spot, concrete is laid for a 200-seat vegetarian dining hall; at another, a small school is planned, and at another, a medical clinic is to rise, all to be staffed by disciples, many welleducated professionals.All of the activity takes place amid a steady murmur of laughter. The disciples appear for the most part to be in their 20's and 30's. The guide is a tawny, handsome woman of 27, of Brazilian and French extraction. A disciple for two years, she wears her necklace with its picture and a diamond ring on her left ring finger, a gift from the guru, she said. He no longer lectures and in fact does not speak publicly at all. Neither does he speak to reporters. He ventures out, she said, only for morning and evening rides in one of the two Rolls-Royces kept for him at the ranch. ''Bhagwan says,'' she related, ''that you should have riches both inside yourself and outside yourself.'' Illustrations: photo of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh inside house and followergardening map of area of Oregon where farm is located photo of Indian religious leader as he appears in movie
It seems an unlikely spot for a wispy, ailing Indian guru's dream of a ''city of god'' to take earthly form, but the physical evidence of that city is growing dramatically in the barren, lion-colored hills 20 miles southwest of here - and with it the fears of many residents of this tiny town that they will be inundated by the guru's red-clad disciples. Last July 10, little more than a week after he abandoned his oncethriving ashram at Poona, India, for one in Montclair, N.J., the dedicated followers of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, some of whom regard him as a god, bought 64,228 acres of rugged, rocky ranchland straddling Wasco and Jefferson Counties here in central Oregon. The buyers, sannyasin, or disciples, from the guru's Chidvilas Rajneesh Meditation Center at Montclair, paid $6 million for the land, a quarter of it in cash, and leased 17,000 acres from the United States Bureau of Land Management. Transforming Fallow Land The disciples here, a handful at first and now about 130, immediately began transforming the Big Muddy Ranch, fallow for two decades, into the foundation of an agricultural and spiritual commune, called Rajneeshpuram, or ''City of Rajneesh.''
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INTEREST GROUPS SPENT $130.3 MILLION IN '80 ELECTIONS
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WASHINGTON, March 28— Political action committees spent $130.3 million, a record, in the 1980 elections, the Federal Election Commission said in a report released today. The figures, which are not complete, said that at least $136.7 million was raised in the 1979-80 election cycle by the committees, which represent interest groups ranging from environmentalists and educators to labor unions and business and industry associations. In the last previous cycle, in 1977 and 1978, these groups raised $80 million and spent $77.4 million, according to the commission's records. Another study released today, by the National Committee for an Effective Congress, a liberal political action organization, said that political action committees connected with the oil and gas industry gave more than $6 million to Congressional candidates in the 1980 elections. In discussing all the 1980 contributions by political action committees, the election commission said: ''How much of this money was spent on behalf of Federal candidates is still unknown. However, preliminary data indicate that by Oct. 15, 1980, at least $50.7 million had been contributed to 1980 Congressional races.'' It said the total contributed to all Federal candidates through mid-October was about $55.7 million, which included at least $1.8 million for Presidential candidates and $3.2 million for debts from old campaigns and gifts for future races. The election commission reported that political action committees gave $35.2 million to House candidates and $15.5 million to Senate candidates. In 1978, they gave $23 million to House campaigns and $9 million to Senate races. Common Cause, a citizen group that has studied campaign finance for the past decade, said the committees gave $22.5 million to House and Senate candidates in 1976, which was double the amount of the previous election. In 1980, political action committees contributed $27.4 million to Democratic Congressional candidates and $23.3 million to Republicans. This represents a slight closing of the gap by which the committees have customarily favored Democrats over Republicans. Incumbents Got Far more Money Incumbents, as usual, got far more than their challengers - $31.7 million as against $12.5 million. Another $6.5 million went to races with no incumbents. The election commission made these other points about the 2,751 political action funds registered with it: - Big business has the most committees, 1,249, against 332 for labor organizations. Trade, health and other organizations had the second highest total with 635. - Corporate political action committees contributed almost $19.3 million to Federal candidates, favoring for the first time Republicans over Democrats $12.1 million to $7.1 million. - Labor gave more than $13.7 million, about $12.8 million to Democrats and $903,372 to Republicans. The report on the oil and gas industry contributions said 241 Congressional candidates received $5,000 or more from the industry groups. The study said 40 percent of House incumbents receiving $5,000 or more were on committees of major importance to the industry, while 20 percent more served on committees of secondary importance. Four successful Republican candidates for the Senate and one for the House received more than $100,000. They were Senators Charles E. Grassley of Iowa, Steven D. Symms of Iowa, James Abdnor of South Dakota and Dan Quayle of Indiana; and Representative Jack Fields of Texas.
Political action committees spent $130.3 million, a record, in the 1980 elections, the Federal Election Commission said in a report released today. The figures, which are not complete, said that at least $136.7 million was raised in the 1979-80 election cycle by the committees, which represent interest groups ranging from environmentalists and educators to labor unions and business and industry associations. In the last previous cycle, in 1977 and 1978, these groups raised $80 million and spent $77.4 million, according to the commission's records.
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Westchester Guide - B y Eleanor Charles - JANE PFEIFFER TO SPEAK - NYTimes.com
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Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, whose brief tenure as chairman of the board of the National Broadcasting Company was terminated during a toplevel shakeup, will speak at a Conference for Business Women Oct. 14 at the White Plains Y.W.C.A., 515 North Street. Mrs. Pfeiffer, a management consultant, serves as trustee or director of half a dozen educational institutions and business corporations. She was a vice president of the International Business Machines Corporation before joining NBC. Her husband, Ralph A. Pfeiffer Jr., is an I.B.M. senior vice president and chairman of its Americas-Far East Corporation. Mrs. Pfeiffer's talk is to be informal and open to discussion. The theme of the conference, ''Work in the 80's,'' will deal with the need for women to develop support systems in order to advance professionally. To that end, the specifics of ''networking'' skills will be taught in workshops. A fee of $18 includes a box supper. Reservations must be confirmed by Oct. 4. Conference hours are from 5:30 to 9:30 P.M. For more information, call 949-6227. APPRAISALS BY CHRISTIE'S Christie's, the New York auction house that has helped owners of treasures profit from their possessions, will hold an appraisal day at Caramoor from 10 A.M. to 5 P.M. Saturday. Anthony Phillips, director of the British-based concern and a specialist in silver, will head a team of six experts that includes Dean Failey, the company's authority on American furniture and decorative arts, and Richard Wunder, head of Christie's appraisals and formerly of the Smithsonian Institution and the Fogg Museum. There will be a fee of $6 for each item appraised. Participants may bring porcelain, silver, glass, pewter, books, jewelry, pocket watches, Oriental art, paintings, prints, drawings, Oriental rugs and clear photographs or portable parts of American or Continental furniture. Coins, postage stamps and antiquities from Greek, Roman and pre-Columbian cultures will be not be acceptable. Proceeds will benefit the Caramoor Museum and concerts. In previous Christie appraisals a Dutch beaker used casually in a household brought $18,150, and a silver and enamel cup purchased for $200 was sold for $9,000. The value of some antique silver has appreciated 300 percent in five years, according to Christie executives. Caramoor is off Route 22 just north of Bedford Village. BLUEGRASS IN BEDFORD Bill Monroe, the acknowledged ''father'' of bluegrass music, will appear with his Blue Grass Boys at 7 and 10 P.M. Saturday in Fox Lane High School, Bedford. Mr. Monroe, now 70 years old, has performed worldwide, eschewing commercialism and amplification and retaining the pure country style of his native Kentucky, the state for which he named his band and the source of the term bluegrass. The group was formed in 1938, joined the Grand Ole Opry the next year and remained for 41 years, winning numerous awards. Mr. Monroe was featured in a CBS television special earlier this month. Also featured in the Saturday concert will be the Traver Hollow Band. Tickets are $10 at the door or $8 in advance. Call 533-2872 for reservations and information. PUBLISHER IS SPEAKER Brian Donnelly, president and publisher of the Gannett Westchester-Rockland Newspapers, will speak at a luncheon of the New York Women in Communications Wednesday at the Metropolis Country Club in White Plains. Open to the public, the event will enable women who are not necessarily members to mingle with others in the communications field, and to hear Mr. Donnelly's views on the prospects for women in the print media. Tickets to the luncheon, which begins with a reception at 11:30 A.M., are $15. For reservations and information, call 949-1139. CLINIC FOR CANOEISTS The Westchester County Parks Department will sponsor a free canoe clinic and five-mile canoe trip this weekend at Mountain Lakes Camp in North Salem. Anyone 12 or older may register tomorrow by calling 682-2416. The clinic will be held from 1 to 4 P.M. Saturday, covering canoe handling, safety, equipment and canoe construction. Successful c ompletion of the course will en title participants to draw lots for the trip, which begins at 9 A.M . next Sunday. To reach the camp, take I-684 to Exit 6, go east on Route 35, left at the junction of Routes 121 and 124, then t wo miles to the entrance. WALKATHON FOR E.R.A. Figures in a recent Gallup Poll show that 63 percent of the nation favors passage of an equal rights amendment, coming up for ratification June 30, 1982. To spark interest and support, the Westchester Chapter of the National Organization for Women has organized a 6.5-mile Walkathon around downtown White Plains beginning at noon Saturday in the park opposite Macy's. Men, women, children, companies, groups and organizations are expected to take part in this local effort to assist the $15 million national drive spearheaded by Betty Ford, the former First Lady, and Alan Alda, the actor. Three states must be added to the 35 that have ratified the proposed amendment before it can become part of the Constitution. To sign up or to obtain more information, call 632-9281. Eleanor Charles
Jane Cahill Pfeiffer, whose brief tenure as chairman of the board of the National Broadcasting Company was terminated during a toplevel shakeup, will speak at a Conference for Business Women Oct. 14 at the White Plains Y.W.C.A., 515 North Street. Mrs. Pfeiffer, a management consultant, serves as trustee or director of half a dozen educational institutions and business corporations. She was a vice president of the International Business Machines Corporation before joining NBC. Her husband, Ralph A. Pfeiffer Jr., is an I.B.M. senior vice president and chairman of its Americas-Far East Corporation.
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LIBERALS CHOOSE MRS. CODD OF S. I. TO OPPOSE KOCH
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Liberal Party leaders were scheduled last night to select City Councilwoman Mary T. Codd of Staten Island as their candidate for mayor. Although she is a Democrat, Mrs. Codd will not challenge Mayor Koch in the Democratic primary. She plans to husband limited financial resources for the general election campaign. With the selection of Mrs. Codd, the mayoral starting lineup was close to completed. The Mayor is likely to be challenged by Assemblyman Frank J. Barbaro of Brooklyn in the Democratic primary and Assemblyman John A. Esposito of Queens in the Republican primary. The Conservative and Right to Life parties are expected to endorse Mr. Esposito. At least three other mayoral hopefuls have announced their candidacies but because of limited support they may have difficulty qualifying for the ballot. Won't Seek Council Post Mrs. Codd, who was elected as an insurgent Democrat in 1977, will not seek re-election to the City Council but her 29-year-old daughter, Melinda, who is an executive at Texaco, may run for the Council in her place. The Staten Island Democratic leader, Nicholas LaPorte, a City Council member himself, had selected Richard Vittiliano, who was an aide to former Representative John M. Murphy, to challenge Mrs. Codd if she sought re-election. Mrs. Codd has not formally announced her mayoral candidacy but Liberal leaders reached out to her as part of their effort to broaden their largely Jewish base. The 53-year-old Mrs. Codd is a Roman Catholic of Irish-American descent, a lifelong Staten Island resident, the mother of eight children and a former social studies teacher. Her husband, Martin, is a harbor pilot. Raymond B. Harding, the Liberal Party leader, said that Mrs. Codd was a liberal, independent Democrat who has been ''a spokesperson for the outer boroughs and minorities'' and who had not hesitated to disagree with Democratic Party leaders or the mayor. Lost to Murphy She had challenged Representative Murphy in both the primary and general election last year but lost both contests. Mr. Murphy in turn was defeated by Guy V. Molinari, the Republican-Conservative candidate. Mr. Harding said that Mrs. Codd would be ''a stronger candidate in the general election'' than Mr. Barbaro, who has had Liberal support for his Assembly contests. However, Liberal leaders had ruled out endorsing him for mayor because of his support by leftist splinter groups such as the New Alliance Party. The unofficial endorsement of Mrs. Codd by an 11-member party committee last night will be followed by the official designation sometime next week by the party's five-county joint executive committee. Illustrations: photo of Councilwoman Mary T. Codd
Liberal Party leaders were scheduled last night to select City Councilwoman Mary T. Codd of Staten Island as their candidate for mayor. Although she is a Democrat, Mrs. Codd will not challenge Mayor Koch in the Democratic primary. She plans to husband limited financial resources for the general election campaign.
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Finkel Finds Gold in Ring, Too
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There were 67,000 rock fans in the Yale Bowl, unaware that backstage the Eagles were telling the promoter they had changed their minds and were not going to play unless they were paid first. The sheepish-looking promoter said, ''Then don't go on, and we won't pay you at all.'' As soon as he said that, Shelly Finkel, who appears as if he would be scared by Caspar Milquetoast, thought to himself, ''I can't believe I said that.'' Two years later, Finkel was in the back rooms of boxing. The meeting was not going well. Mike Trainer, the man who made the deal for what likely will be the most lucrative fight in boxing history, was a bit worried about the man he had entrusted it to, this 37-year-old, mild-mannered rock concert promoter. Finkel, against Trainer's wishes, had given Bob Arum limited participation in the proposed Sugar Ray Leonard-Thomas Hearns fight, and Arum was trying to run the meeting as if he were the main promoter. Trainer, Leonard's attorney, had put together the package with Emanuel Steward, Hearns's manager. Trainer especially didn't want Arum, and now he called Finkel aside and warned him that another promoter could always be found for the Sept. 16 fight. His Words Carry Punch Finkel had talked the Eagles into going on stage before he sent a secratary out to give them their check in front of 67,000 spectators. And he talked himself back into command of the meeting. He doesn't appear to be the take-charge type, a baby-faced bald man with a self-effacing sense of humor who managed to go from the Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood in Brooklyn where he grew up to the Upper East Side apartment ''because I was lucky.'' Compared to Arum or Don King, Finkel seems as outmatched as a novice amateur against the heavyweight champion. He looks as if he would have a better chance swimming with barracuda and sharks. But maybe a pussycat can survive in the jungle and a nice guy can finish first. ''Shelly can handle himself with people who are as civilized as he is,'' Trainer said. ''I'm worried about him dealing with boxing people.'' Finkel said he was ''really trying to avoid boxing people.'' ''There are very few people in boxing I think are nice,'' he said. ''I would hope more were like Mike Trainer and Emanuel Steward.'' Finkel, who predicts the Leonard-Hearns fight will gross at least $30 million, was sitting in an all-night diner in Houston at 3 o'clock in the morning. It was about three hours after Leonard and Hearns had won title fights to set up Finkel's Sept. 16 show, about an hour since anyone in the large party had seen the waitress. There were some tough people in the caravan of a van and three cars that had scoured Houston's outskirts in search of a place to eat - Steward, Tony Ayala Jr. and his father. Tony Jr., known as ''El Torito,'' had been pulverizing on the undercard and he was growling about the service. But he sat still, and it was Finkel who got up and asked the waitress to ''please'' at least take the order. Egos and Tempers Finkel doesn't see much difference between the rock and sock businesses. ''In rock, you're dealing with egos,'' he said. ''In boxing, you're dealing with tempers.'' He said he had been ''double-crossed'' already in the music business and he had run into tempers there. For example, a famous rock group had written into its contract that Finkel must supply it with a post-concert guacamole feast in the dressing room. The band did not like the guacamole and it wound up splattered on the walls. Finkel has staged concerts for stars from Jim Hendrix and Janis Joplin to Bruce Springsteen and The Who. In 1973, he produced the biggest rock concert in history for 600,000 fans at Watkins Glen, N.Y. It all started with a local group called the Pigeons, who were playing at the small Long Island club he was managing in 1964. Finkel took the Pigeons to Columbia Records ''and they said it was the worst group they ever heard,'' Finkel said. So he took the Pigeons to Atlantic and, although that record company also thought the band was ''pretty bad,'' it agreed to release a record, provided the name of the group was changed. The Pigeons became Vanilla Fudge and the album became gold in four weeks. ''If my father could see me now,'' he often says. Finkel's father, a railroad conductor who died when the promoter was 13, loved boxing. ''He had a heart condition and my mother had to drag him away from the television set, he got so excited watching the fights,'' said Finkel. Finkel did not begin watching live fights until 1977, when he started regularly attending the New York Golden Gloves. He became fond of several young fighters there, two of whom he now manages, Alex Ramos and Mitch Green. New to the Business His business association with boxing dates only to last November, when he signed Ramos and Green and three other amateur stars to contracts with his partner, Lou Duva, the veteran manager from Totowa, N.J. The others in the Finkel-Duva stable are all considered potential world champions -Ayala, a junior middleweight; Johnny Bumphus, a junior welterweight who should grow into a full welterweight, and Tony Tucker, a heavyweight. He acts as big brother and friend to his fighters and has told them all that if they ever want to retire he will help them. ''We don't need to make a living from boxing,'' he said, ''so if any of my kids want to retire, or take some time off, they can.'' As a manager, Finkel cannot be a promoter in most states. So for the Sept. 16 show, the listed promoter will be Duva's 29-year-old son, Danny, a lawyer who also is the promoter at the monthly Ice Palace cards in Totowa. Finkel is reluctant to list the members of his band of backers, ''but they're all straight, believe me, nobody in the Mafia or that type of thing.'' ''They're mostly rich people, myself and a few others,'' he said. He named Frank Barcelona, head of the Premier Talent Agency, the country's leading rock music agency. Premier formed another corporation, Circuit Promotions, to handle the 250 closed-circuit television sites. Another member of the group, Dan Doyle of Hartford, promoted six of Leonard's early fights in New England and used that as the basis for his thesis in getting a doctorate in physical education. Against Trainer's objections, he wanted Arum's Top Rank company involved, not so much for Arum, but for the expertise of Michael Malitz, Top Rank's president, in handling foreign sales and in setting up the closed-circuit equipment. ''One of my good points,'' said Finkel, ''is knowing what I can't do.'' Pay Television, Too The Leonard-Hearns fight will probably have a few less closedcircuit outlets than did Leonard-Roberto Duran, so far the biggest fight in history. But Finkel said it would also have nearly 20 cities using pay television. A few million will come into the pot from the sale of the live gate to Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. And because Finkel is tough enough, no one will be able to watch the fight for free on home television. He said he would ''never'' sell delay rights to network television.
There were 67,000 rock fans in the Yale Bowl, unaware that backstage the Eagles were telling the promoter they had changed their minds and were not going to play unless they were paid first. The sheepish-looking promoter said, ''Then don't go on, and we won't pay you at all.'' As soon as he said that, Shelly Finkel, who appears as if he would be scared by Caspar Milquetoast, thought to himself, ''I can't believe I said that.'' Two years later, Finkel was in the back rooms of boxing. The meeting was not going well. Mike Trainer, the man who made the deal for what likely will be the most lucrative fight in boxing history, was a bit worried about the man he had entrusted it to, this 37-year-old, mild-mannered rock concert promoter.
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COUNCIL WOES PUT MAJORITY LEADER INTO THE SPOTLIGHT
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By all accounts, these are hard times for New York's City Council. By some accounts, the person primarily responsible is Thomas J. Cuite. Mr. Cuite, the small, slight, bespectacled vice chairman and majority leader, is blamed by many of his colleagues for what they see as the Council's sorry condition. In recent months, a Federal judicial panel halted Council elections, the Justice Department rejected a proposed redistricting plan on the ground that it was racially discriminatory, and a Federal judge declared unconstitutional the Council's method of electing two at-large members from each borough. When the new year begins, the Council will exist without having been elected, and no one is absolutely sure its actions will have legal force. The crisis demands answers and decisions, Mr. Cuite's critics say, and Mr. Cuite seems not to have noticed. When will hearings be held on district lines? When is an election likly to be held? What will happen if the at-large ruling is upheld? In an interview in his City Hall office, Mr. Cuite quietly but firmly turned aside the criticism. Because he did not cause the problems alone, he said, the solutions are complicated. Matters are moving ahead ''expeditiously,'' he said. ''Everybody had their say,'' he added. ''I run the Council with the Council members.'' He said that the Council was ''much improved'' since he took it over and that he was ''happy'' with the way it was operating. Thomas Joseph Cuite (pronounced CUTE), a quiet man who walks fast, smiles often and works hard, has lived all of his 68 years in Brooklyn. He is a man of many facets, nearly all of them silent and difficult to discern, according to those who have worked with him. He is described by aides as a man highly skilled at arranging a consensus on complex issues, but also as one who sometimes finds it impossible to convey simple thoughts in straightforward language. ''You can talk to him about an issue, a vote, a bill,'' one associate said, ''and most of the time you will walk away not knowing what he said because he's a master of double talk.'' ''I'm not sure if his manner is intentional or not,'' said one longtime aide. It apparently is characteristic of Mr. Cuite that, of a score of professional associates interviewed, not one said he was a friend or an enemy. Many of those around him are unsure of him and their relationship with him. Thus, criticism is either preceded or followed by compliments, and attacks are usually made gently. Carol Bellamy, the City Council President, said: ''The soft spot in his willingness to comprehend the public and political facts has created a situation very harmful to the reputation of the Council. His way of doing things - a way of the past - is inconsistent with the 1980's.'' But she added, ''He's a man of high moral character.'' Dealing With Complaints Councilman Frederick E. Samuel, a Democrat from Harlem, said, ''I admire him.'' Nonetheless, Mr. Samuel tells a story typical of many circulating in City Hall these days. Mr. Samuel says he wrote Mr. Cuite complaining that his advice was not sought on negotiations with Washington over the district lines and whether to appeal the at-large ruling. Mr. Samuel did not get an answer, he says, so one day he raised his complaints face to face. The result? ''It was less than a response,'' Mr. Samuel says. ''He more or less shrugged his shoulders.'' ''The problem is that nobody really knows Tom Cuite,'' said Councilwoman Mary Pinkett, a Brooklyn Democrat. ''You just can't put a handle on him.'' That he defies simple definition is not to say Mr. Cuite's colleagues do not feel strongly about him. That would be impossible because of his power as majority leader in the nearly all Democratic Council. Rewards and Punishments Giving and withholding committee assignments and chairmanships are only the most obvious means Mr. Cuite has for rewarding and punishing. In a body where he leads 37 Democrats out of 43 members, his support or opposition determines the fate of most bills. As vice chairman - there is no chairman - Mr. Cuite also directs the activities of the 90 staff members and a budget of $7.6 million. Mr. Cuite, whose district includes Park Slope, Cobble Hill, Sunset Park and Windsor Terrace, is the Council's senior member, having served since 1959. Before being elected to his leadership posts in 1969, he was chairman of the Finance Committee for five years and served in the State Senate from 1953 to 1958. He and his wife, the former Kathlyn T. Killeen, were married in 1942 and have two grown children. In addition to his $35,000 Council salary, Mr. Cuite earns $19,000 a year through his leadership positions. He no longer has an active interest, he said, in a family real-estate and insurance business. Even-Handed Authority Nearly everyone who comes and goes at City Hall has something very good to say about Mr. Cuite. Colleagues say he uses his authority with such even-handed consideration that there appears to be little personal animosity toward him or dissent to the belief that he is a decent, honest gentleman. ''Make that two words - gentle man,'' said Martha M. Holstein, Mayor Koch's chief City Council liaison, who added that Mr. Cuite's integrity is never questioned.
By all accounts, these are hard times for New York's City Council. By some accounts, the person primarily responsible is Thomas J. Cuite. Mr. Cuite, the small, slight, bespectacled vice chairman and majority leader, is blamed by many of his colleagues for what they see as the Council's sorry condition. In recent months, a Federal judicial panel halted Council elections, the Justice Department rejected a proposed redistricting plan on the ground that it was racially discriminatory, and a Federal judge declared unconstitutional the Council's method of electing two at-large members from each borough. When the new year begins, the Council will exist without having been elected, and no one is absolutely sure its actions will have legal force. The crisis demands answers and decisions, Mr. Cuite's critics say, and Mr. Cuite seems not to have noticed. When will hearings be held on district lines? When is an election likly to be held? What will happen if the at-large ruling is upheld?
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IN THE NATION - Reforming The Reforms - NYTimes.com
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Senator Alan Cranston of California has proposed that no more than a third of the delegates to the next Democratic National Convention be elected in primaries and pledged to a particular candidate. That would move perhaps too far in the right direction. Mr. Cranston has not been active in party reform movements. But a senator from the largest state, particularly one who was re-elected by 1.6 million votes in the teeth of the Reagan landslide, is likely to be listened to. It also appears probable that Charles Manatt of California will be elected the new Democratic National Chairman, with Mr. Cranston's enthusiastic support -another reason why the Senator's proposals carry weight. Mr. Cranston insists that he was only throwing out one of many ideas that should be discussed by a party whose last two nominees were George McGovern and Jimmy Carter, and which suffered an election disaster in 1980. Nevertheless, in his speech to a California Democratic luncheon, he also delivered a severe indictment of ''overreliance'' on primaries. He conceded that primaries disclose something about a candidate's fund-raising and organizational abilities, his or her effectiveness on television and ''electability'' in specific situations. But primaries do not, he insisted, necessarily disclose whether a candidate can appeal to ''the larger constituency'' necessary for victory in a general election. Nor, Mr. Cranston said, do primary victories necessarily demand of candidates the qualities needed by a President - for example, those required for dealing with Congress and ''moving the national power structure.'' Primaries, he added, ''seldom test courage and never test wisdom,'' and say little about ''how good an educator of the American public a candidate would be as President.'' Mr. Cranston's remedy would be to rescue the national convention from its present ''empty symbolism'' and make it a body capable of reaching ''value judgments'' and forming a consensus as to which candidate can best win election and lead the nation. He termed it ''irresponsible'' to abandon that process to the primaries. Many Democrats, however, opted for primaries precisely because they came to see the national convention not as a representative body but as boss-dominated. Party reforms followed the 1968 convention, at which Hubert Humphrey was nominated without having entered a single primary; but in fact, the last multi-ballot convention in either party was held by the Democrats in 1952 - 20 years before primaries began to dominate the nominating contests. State primaries - 36 of them in 1980 - or caucus systems operating under the same rules of proportional representation and pledged delegates, were seen as means of achieving a more powerful popular voice in Presidential nominations. To that end, they have worked well and it is unlikely that the Democratic Party would agree today to such a major rollback of the 1970's reforms as Mr. Cranston proposes. He would divide the states and the District of Columbia into three groups of 17. One group would conduct binding primaries as at present; a second would select delegates through ''various grass roots precinct or neighborhood meeting systems''; and the third would leave delegate selection to the state parties. Only those delegates chosen in the primaries would be legally pledged to a particular candidate. The three groups of states would rotate delegate selection methods from one election to the next. The senator's sensible aim is a national convention not bound by primary decisions, many taken months earlier in far different circumstances, and one able to reach a broad consensus on a party platform and nominee. But aside from the procedural difficulties of his three-group plan - who is going to force New Hampshire to give up its primary in two of every three election years? - many Democrats will balk at returning two-thirds of the delegates, as they are likely to see it, to organization control. Something like the convention Mr. Cranston envisions might more realistically be sought by leaving the states to choose their own delegate selection method, under a national party rule providing that at least a third, and perhaps 40 percent, must not be pledged to any candidate. That would permit 60 to 67 percent of the delegates to be chosen by binding primary or caucus, if the states so chose; it would nevertheless demand of any winning candidate that he or she pull together a broad party consensus at the convention. That might not always produce a winner. But it ought more nearly to assure that a party nominee knows more about being President than just how to win primaries. I stated in an article on Tuesday that President Reagan had hoped to cut the 1981 budget 17 percent by eliminating fraud, waste and abuse. His target figure actually was 2 percent, which by some estimates would have been $17 billion. The error is regretted.
Senator Alan Cranston of California has proposed that no more than a third of the delegates to the next Democratic National Convention be elected in primaries and pledged to a particular candidate. That would move perhaps too far in the right direction. Mr. Cranston has not been active in party reform movements. But a senator from the largest state, particularly one who was re-elected by 1.6 million votes in the teeth of the Reagan landslide, is likely to be listened to. It also appears probable that Charles Manatt of California will be elected the new Democratic National Chairman, with Mr. Cranston's enthusiastic support -another reason why the Senator's proposals carry weight.
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BUSINESS DIGEST - WEDNESDAY, JUNE 2, 1982 - Companies - NYTimes.com
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Pabst, itself a takeover target of two other brewers, is seeking 49 percent of Olympia Brewing for $35.56 million. The announcement startled the financial community. It also came as a surprise to Olympia, which said its board would probably discuss the offer today. Pabst is the fifth-largest brewer, and Olympia is No.8. (Page D1.) Mesa Petroleum said Cities Service had rejected its $3.8 billion takeover bid. Cities Service, in an effort to cut off Mesa's financing, was reportedly ready to question Mesa's bankers to see whether they knew of its takeover plans. The bankers are thought to be Continental Illinois and the Bank of Montreal. (D1.) Filmways reported it narrowed its loss to $40 million in the fourth fiscal quarter from $46 million a year ago. Fotomat lost $6.1 million in the first fiscal quarter, compared with a loss of $2.3 million in the 1981 period. Jewel Companies' net income in its first fiscal quarter rose 17.5 percent. (D5.) MCI Communications plans to file for cellular radio franchises in 12 metropolitan areas. (D4.) Jet Industries and Electric Car were accused by the S.E.C. of numerous violations of the antifraud and reporting laws. (D11.) The Economy Generic drug makers whose products imitate the shape and color of name-brand drugs aren't liable in most cases if their products are mislabled and sold as the higher-priced brand-name drugs by pharmacists, the Supreme Court decided. (D1.) It also upheld a Federal energy law requiring that pricing policies meant to encourage conservation be considered by state regulators. (B6.) The travel agency business should not be deregulated, an administrative law judge said in a recommendation to the C.A.B. Agents should continue to be allowed to act in concert, with immunity from antitrust laws, as they have done for 35 years, he added. (D8.) Spending on new construction fell 0.6 percent in April, partly because of a sharp drop in municipal spending for highways and streets, the Commerce Department reported. Analysts said construction seems to be in a ''holding pattern.'' (D12.) An Administration decision to drop a rule requiring air bags in new cars was blocked by a Federal appeals court. (A21.) International Harry F. Oppenheimer is leaving as head of Anglo-American. In breaking the South African company's dynastic succession, the 73-year-old Mr. Oppenheimer, who will remain as head of its DeBeers Consolidated Mines, recommended that his aide, Gavin Relly, be named his successor. Meanwhile, his son Nicholas was advanced to one of the company's two deputy chairmanships. (D1.) Canada's oil and gas industry voiced doubt that a new Government tax relief package would bring about a revival of investment and exploration activity. Energy Minister Marc Lalonde insisted, however, that it was a ''significant push for industry.'' (D6.) The French franc came under new pressure in currency trading after President Francois Mitterrand's comment that he may have to devalue the currency again. The franc fell to 6.1775 francs to the dollar, with heavy buying by the central bank reported. (D12.) Markets The stock market declined moderately in slower trading amid continuing concern over high interest rates. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 4.57 points, to 814.97. (D8.) Interest rates rose sharply as traders, pressed to pay for several recent issues, cut prices in an effort to reduce their holdings. (D6.) The dollar rose, while gold prices fell $4.50 an ounce in New York, to $317.50, a three-year low. (D12.) Prices for a broad range of commodity futures tumbled, with many of them reaching new lows. (D12.) Last-sale and high-and-low prices on 49 over-the-counter stocks are available to the public under a new Nasdaq system. (D13.) Today's Columns Britain is experiencing its worst unemployment since the Depression, and yet there seems to be little bitterness. Conservatives say benefits under the welfare state make unemployment more tolerable than it used to be. Leonard Silk. Economic Scene. (D2.) Williams Companies faces bleak earnings prospects as an outgrowth of troubles in the fertilizer and oil industries. One analyst, who had projected 1982 earnings at $2.50 a share, has reduced his estimate to $1 a share. Market Place. (D8.)
Pabst, itself a takeover target of two other brewers, is seeking 49 percent of Olympia Brewing for $35.56 million. The announcement startled the financial community. It also came as a surprise to Olympia, which said its board would probably discuss the offer today. Pabst is the fifth-largest brewer, and Olympia is No.8. (Page D1.) Mesa Petroleum said Cities Service had rejected its $3.8 billion takeover bid. Cities Service, in an effort to cut off Mesa's financing, was reportedly ready to question Mesa's bankers to see whether they knew of its takeover plans. The bankers are thought to be Continental Illinois and the Bank of Montreal. (D1.)
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ONCE AGAIN, ETIQUETTE IS A POPULAR TOPIC
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AMERICA, if the social soothsayers are accurate in their predictions, is about to become a land of kindness and courtesy. This is not merely because ''Tiffany's Table Manners for Teen— Agers,'' the paperback by Walter Hoving first published 21 years ago, is, according to Tiffany, ''suddenly selling like croissants.'' Or that Ivan Brent, director of catering at the Plaza Hotel notes that partygoers of debutante age are ''no longer brown-bagging liquor bottles on the premises or making a mockery of society the way they did a few years ago, but are, instead, once again bowing, being polite and paying attention to tradition.'' Rather, it is largely because of the burst of books on manners and etiquette - subjects that in the past inspired works from such concerned citizens as George Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt - which have recently been or are about to be published. There are courses and lectures on the same subject for which people are lining up as if they were waiting to see ''Conan the Barbarian.'' Americans, these authors and teachers are saying, are currently craving tradition and hungering for the rules of proper behavior in social situations. Two weeks ago, Network for Learning, a series of adult-education classes, announced a new one-evening, two-hour course, scheduled in Manhattan for later this month, called ''Style, Manners & Grace'' and subtitled ''Guide to Social Security.'' Preregistration for the course, according to the program's spokesmen, was strong enough to warrant scheduling a second section. ''We anticipate a sellout,'' says Mary Daly, the network's creative director, who attributes the subject's apparent popularity to the fact that ''people are scared of rising unemployment and the economic crunch: they've had a free and easy life style, which didn't really work, and now they're clamoring for security.'' Etiquette, she added, ''is right up there with 'Herpes' and 'Understanding Reagan's Tax Bill' as the subjects most requested by our students.'' Mary Susan Miller, who is working with Elizabeth L. Post, the granddaughter of Emily Post, on updating ''The New Emily Post's Etiquette,'' said, ''People have become so horrified, hurt and disgusted by rudeness'' that a resurgence of manners was inevitable. Manners, says Mrs. Miller, ''are not a set of rules that someone out there arbitrarily says follow. Manners are to make other people, as well as yourself, comfortable.'' She is currently teaching corporate executives, among others, to be comfortable. When Marjabelle Stewart was at the Waldorf-Astoria recently to conduct a class on dining for children from the United Nations International School, it was yet one more stop in her constant etiquette campaign. Mrs. Stewart, who has made manners her cottage - or, perhaps, castle - industry, has written 11 books on the subject (''Marjabelle Stewart's Book of Modern Table Manners,'' the most recent, was published last year). Her children's etiquette classes (seven weeks, $65, graduation ceremony and tea party included) are franchised in 476 cities throughout the country. ''Everyone wants to be upper crust today,'' says Mrs. Stewart, who also conducts courses (''Eating Your Way to the Top'') for both executives and college students. Ann Buchwald, a Washingtonian who is married to Art Buchwald and was Mrs. Stewart's co-author on such books as ''White Gloves and Party Manners'' and ''Stand Up, Shake Hands, Say 'How Do You Do,' '' finds further evidence that manners are staging a comeback. ''Women are wearing gloves for the first time in years, and there's a return to dresses,'' she said. ''How people look has a lot to do with the way they behave.'' It was President and Mrs. Reagan, Mrs. Buchwald adds, who ''put the cap on the bottle.'' Many of the parents who are most concerned about teaching their children good manners, Mrs. Buchwald has found, were students who demonstrated in the 60's and 70's. ''When they locked up the dean, they didn't much care about where glasses go on the dinner table,'' she said, ''but they now want their children to care.'' For those who, like him, grew up in the 60's and 70's, P.J. O'Rourke is writing ''Modern Manners: Etiquette for Extremely Rude People.'' ''We never learned how to dress properly or give cocktail parties,'' Mr. O'Rourke says. ''It was an era, when people erased the tapes on how to behave.'' It is the family that is - or should be - the unit that teaches manners to youngsters, according to Letitia Baldrige, who revised and expanded the most recent edition of ''The Amy Vanderbilt Complete Book of Etiquette.'' ''The many young people who grew up having dinner in front of the television set instead of the dining table never did learn table manners,'' Miss Baldrige says. ''Besides that, their parents were divorced and were never home to advise them.'' What Miss Baldrige sees as an increased interest in manners is, she believes, a good sign, because ''when people know how to behave, things proceed in a beautiful, military way. Indoor manners must compensate for all the bad manners going on outdoors.'' Manners, in the opinion of Judith Martin, who writes a syndicated column called ''Miss Manners,'' may not yet have improved greatly, but people are perceiving the need for a cohesive body of etiquette. This need is always there, she says, ''in times of transition and doubt such as this.'' Miss Martin's ''Miss Manners' Guide to Excruciatingly Correct Behavior'' is due out later this month. Another title, scheduled for publication later this year, is George Mazzei's ''The New Office Etiquette,'' which he says he wrote because ''there's been a breakdown in business manners, and people are realizing they can no longer deal with the constant rudeness which became a part of the business world when crude young people became superstars.'' Mr. Mazzei's book deals with ''the new etiquette toward women in business'' and sets guidelines for such business behavior as who should go through a revolving door first (the woman still does) and the correct way to deal with your boss's in-office lover (smile, nod, and don't talk about the affair). The book is scheduled for publication later this year. One can learn ''How to Eat an Artichoke and Other Trying, Troublesome, Hard-to-Get-At Foods'' in Rochelle Udell's just-published book.Miss Udell wrote it, she says, ''because food is so often a barrier to socializing across the dinner table.'' She got the idea for her book, she says, while observing ''someone's cherry tomato squirt across a dining room.'' Although Clare Boothe Luce has no plans to write an etiquette book, she has observed social mores from the time when, she says, life was ''much more ceremonial.'' Manners today -except for official life in Washington - have, she believes, ''virtually disappeared,'' and she sees ''no signs of a renaissance.'' For Mrs. Luce, ''good manners is treating others with a certain distance and formality until a friendship is formed.'' She added, ''The rudest human beings in the world are New York City taxi drivers,'' and ''if family meals ever come back, they'll probably come from McDonald's.'' As for the current American interest in manners and etiquette, ''I do hope,'' Mrs. Luce says, ''they buy all the books they can.''
Agers,'' the paperback by Walter Hoving first published 21 years ago, is, according to Tiffany, ''suddenly selling like croissants.'' Or that Ivan Brent, director of catering at the Plaza Hotel notes that partygoers of debutante age are ''no longer brown-bagging liquor bottles on the premises or making a mockery of society the way they did a few years ago, but are, instead, once again bowing, being polite and paying attention to tradition.'' Rather, it is largely because of the burst of books on manners and etiquette - subjects that in the past inspired works from such concerned citizens as George Washington and Eleanor Roosevelt - which have recently been or are about to be published. There are courses and lectures on the same subject for which people are lining up as if they were waiting to see ''Conan the Barbarian.'' Americans, these authors and teachers are saying, are currently craving tradition and hungering for the rules of proper behavior in social situations.
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PROVINCE OF HIDDEN TREASURES
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FREDERIC RAPHAEL is the author of film scripts and novels, among them ''Darling'' and ''The Glittering Prizes.'' His most recent book is a biography of Byron, to be published in the fall by Thames and Hudson. By FREDERIC RAPHAEL ''W hereabouts in the South of France do you live exactly?'' people sometimes ask, in a tone implying precise knowledge of the untrodden tracks between the Grand Hotel du Cap-Ferrat and the three-star restaurants of Mougins and La Napoule, those magnets for travelers for whom heaven itself will have to be on American Express or they won't want to go. Actually, we cannot claim to belong to that South of France at all, even though the mimosa flowers as frothy-yellow and as early in our sheltered valleys as it does on the slopes behind Cannes. The department of the Dordogne, where we do live, lies in the southwest of France; our climate, though temperate, is Atlantic, not Mediterranean. The region lacks the douceur of Provence, but winter is seldom prolonged, or very cold - though our eaves have once or twice been fringed with Alpine icicles. But March is not always warm nor July always hot; we can be bombarded by summer storms, the sky exploding in a volcano of white nimbus, the rain daggering thick gravy out of the terrace. Yet there is always hope: The most sullen day can yield to a golden-delicious evening with a Turner sunset. Dordogne is a great shield-shaped province, with a prominent eastpointing nose to spoil its hexagonal symmetry. This nose, which appropriately includes Cyrano's home town of Bergerac, sniffs at Bordeaux, without quite reaching it. But to say that we live ''in the Dordogne'' would, to a Frenchman, imply that we were fish: ''the Dordogne'' refers always to the river, not the district. To the native, our region is the Perigord, rarely ''Dordogne''; its inhabitants Perigordins, never Dordognais. There have been residents here since before the dawn of history. The oldest gites, or cave shelters, had tenants some 30,000 years ago, give or take a millennium. Our first visit here was during a hot March more than 20 years ago. We were driving toward the Mediterranean and decided to make a large detour to take in the caves at Lascaux, then open to all. (The remorseless lichens, brought to life by the oxygen imported with the tourists, had not yet started to consume the bison, deer and bulls which nameless genius had pastured on the walls.) The caves have now been sealed aginst outside air, and Montignac, a riverside town briefly rich on the paintings' fame, has relapsed into a holiday center comme les autres. The now undisputed mecca for prehistorians is Les Eyzies, where excellent restaurants, particularly the Centenaire (Michelin gives it two stars), impeccably run by young Alain Scholly, compensate for the rather raw, charmless village. Limestone cliffs, riddled with as many holes as an Emmenthal cheese, dominate and pinch the main street. The vicinity offers a mazy and amazing variety of caves that, though they lack the astonishing dimensions of Lascaux, contain murals in both black and white and full color. For my money, however, the most evocative site is just outside the strict Dordogne boundaries, at Cougnac, near Gourdon, where the cave paintings all but equal the vividness of Lascaux. But the richness of the prehistoric heritage does not merely cower in the recesses of hillsides or do time in the many small museums: It is present in the fabric of the land. On our first trip, in 1956, we went to buy some wine and discovered the farmer to be an amateur archeologist in the nicest sense: He was in love with the region's past. On a walk round his smallholding, at Sergeac, above the Vshaped banks of the trout-rich Vezere, he bent down and scratched at the red-brown earth. He came up with a tooth the size of a little finger. ''Saber-toothed tiger,'' he said. In that moment, I was converted to the Perigord. It may be that the farmer regularly buried that tooth, the better to enchant naive visitors, but I think not. Fossils are ubiquitous and bones no rarity; any rooting bulldozer unearths abundant hunting grounds for the part-time paleontologist. The riches of the stratified rock are even said to include gold, though luckily in insufficient quantities to provoke a Klondike. The chateaus of the Perigord lack the flashy narcissism that turns the Loire Valley into a string of fat pearls. Here were the homes of fighting men, not pampered favorites or bewigged financiers. Although nothing now seems more peacefully reminiscent of vieille France, the region did not become unquestionably French until well into the 15th century, when the English were finallly evicted, though they never fully lost their footing: Bordeaux owes its prosperity not least to the English appetite for claret. It is not, I like to think, mere wishful thinking to believe that English-speaking tourists are particularly well received in Aquitaine. On a visit to the looming castle of Sauveterre, with its honeycomb vaults for storing corn against a siege, we were greeted by the custodian with the assurance that he, too, was ''Anglais.'' Neither accent nor style confirmed this, but his name, he said, was Freeman, and his family had been there since the Hundred Years' War.
FREDERIC RAPHAEL is the author of film scripts and novels, among them ''Darling'' and ''The Glittering Prizes.'' His most recent book is a biography of Byron, to be published in the fall by Thames and Hudson. By FREDERIC RAPHAEL ''W hereabouts in the South of France do you live exactly?'' people sometimes ask, in a tone implying precise knowledge of the untrodden tracks between the Grand Hotel du Cap-Ferrat and the three-star restaurants of Mougins and La Napoule, those magnets for travelers for whom heaven itself will have to be on American Express or they won't want to go. Actually, we cannot claim to belong to that South of France at all, even though the mimosa flowers as frothy-yellow and as early in our sheltered valleys as it does on the slopes behind Cannes. The department of the Dordogne, where we do live, lies in the southwest of France; our climate, though temperate, is Atlantic, not Mediterranean. The region lacks the douceur of Provence, but winter is seldom prolonged, or very cold - though our eaves have once or twice been fringed with Alpine icicles. But March is not always warm nor July always hot; we can be bombarded by summer storms, the sky exploding in a volcano of white nimbus, the rain daggering thick gravy out of the terrace. Yet there is always hope: The most sullen day can yield to a golden-delicious evening with a Turner sunset.
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KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 3 (UPI) - Mike Woodson scored 20 points in three quarters of playing time tonight as the Kansas City Kings beat the Indiana Pacers, 120-82, ending Indiana's winning streak at five games. Woodson sat out the fourth quarter as Coach Cotton Fitzsimmons cleared the bench, and 11 of the Kings' 12 players scored. The victory was the Kings' first over the Pacers since December 1979, and the 38-point difference was Kansas City's largest winning margin of the season. Eddie Johnson scored 16 points, Steve Johnson 15, Leon Douglas and Ernie Grunfeld 14 apiece, Reggie Johnson 12, Larry Drew 11 and Kevin Loder 10 as Kansas City, last in the Midwest Division, won its second straight game to improve to 20-40. Tom Owens made a 3-point play to pull Indiana to 34-30 with 9 minutes 10 seconds left in the second quarter. But Steve Johnson scored 5 points to lead a 15-2 surge over the next four minutes, sending Kansas City to a 49-32 lead. The Kings extended the lead to 63-41 by halftime. Owens scored 15 points and Louis Orr and Johnny Davis 14 apiece for Indiana, which had beaten the Kings four straight times. Bucks 96, Hawks 87 ATLANTA (AP) - Sidney Moncrief and Mickey Johnson led an 11-2 surge in the third period for Milwaukee. The loss was Atlanta's eighth in its last nine home games. Moncrief was the game's high scorer with 23 points. Brian Winters had 15. For Atlanta Wayne Rollins scored 20 points. The Hawks' leading season scorer, John Drew, had only 4. 76ers 125, Clippers 107 PHILADELPHIA (AP) - Julius Erving scored 26 points and Andrew Toney 21 as Philadelphia ended a three-game losing streak. The Clippers suffered their fifth straight loss and 13th in the last 14 games. Philadelphia hit 17 of 20 shots from the floor in the third quarter, including a streak in which it outscored San Diego by 16-2. A brief fourth-quarter rally by San Diego was halted when Toney made two 3-point shots. Michael Brooks led San Diego with 28 points. Suns 115, Jazz 102 PHOENIX (AP) - Dennis Johnson scored 25 points and Len Robinson 24 for the Suns. For Utah, which lost its fourth straight game, Adrian Dantley scored 22 points and Darrell Griffith 20. After the Suns took a 53-46 lead at halftime, Johnson scored 11 points in the third quarter as Phoenix went ahead, 82-78. Walter Davis scored 19 points, and Rich Kelley added 16 points, 11 rebounds 10 assists and 4 steals for Phoenix. James Hardy scored 19 points for the Jazz.
Kings Defeat Pacers KANSAS CITY, Mo., March 3 (UPI) - Mike Woodson scored 20 points in three quarters of playing time tonight as the Kansas City Kings beat the Indiana Pacers, 120-82, ending Indiana's winning streak at five games. Woodson sat out the fourth quarter as Coach Cotton Fitzsimmons cleared the bench, and 11 of the Kings' 12 players scored. The victory was the Kings' first over the Pacers since December 1979, and the 38-point difference was Kansas City's largest winning margin of the season.
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OPERA - 'CONTES D'HOFFMAN' - NYTimes.com
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WHEN it comes time to add up the agonies and the ecstasies of this Metropolitan Opera season, the new production of ''Les Contes d'Hoffmann'' that went on display last night will likely lead the ecstasy list. The entire effort, sumptuously designed by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen, inventively staged by Otto Schenk and conducted with energy and understanding by Riccardo Chailly, proved to be a quality affair. It could have disappointed some students of Offenbach's opera who objected to the director's decision to use the standard Choudens edition of the score rather than an updated version incorporating recent scholarly findings, but even they must have been swept up in the hilarity of the astounding first act. It has never been done more wittily or with more theatrical flair in this reviewer's experience. This ''Hoffmann'' had, for a head start, Placido Domingo in the title role, singing with passion and discipline, and acting with more point and grace than leading tenors are required by tradition to deliver. He was the Hoffmann of Everywoman's dreams. It also had, in Michael Devlin, a bass of electrifying presence who took on the quadruple role of Lindorf, Coppelius, Dappertutto and Dr. Miracle and made each character an individual while still contriving to show that the four were facets of the same evil force. Mr. Devlin was at his manic best as the optician Coppelius, dashing about with flying cloak and runaway crutch, but his Dr. Miracle was a model of nefarious cruelty. The three soprano parts, sometimes and perhaps ideally taken by one singer, were this time sung by Ruth Welting (the mechanical doll Olympia), Tatiana Troyanos (the courtesan Giulietta) and Christiane Eda-Pierre (the singer Antonia). Miss Welting was not only convincingly doll-like in appearance, but carried off Mr. Schenk's staging ideas with great precision, gradually turning into a doll with a mind and mechanism of her own, thanks to being kissed by the deluded Mr. Domingo. Miss Welting began a bit unsteadily, but warmed to her work as she became more nearly human and neatly tossed off the stratospheric coloratura of ''Les oiseaux dans la charmille.'' Miss Troyanos, in a dangerously sexy white gown, looked the part of the siren Giulietta and sang as sensuously as she looked. The last of Hoffmann's three loves, Miss Eda-Pierre, trilled herself to death efficiently without ever quite capturing the feverish essence of Antonia's character. The whole Olympia act was an ensemble triumph, led by Andrea Velis, as the doll-building scientist, and Michel Senechal as his stemwinding aide, Cochenille. Mr. Senechal, a Paris Opera import, made a notable Metropolitan debut as Andr es, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio and Frantz. His stage business in keeping the doll working and singing was delicately detailed and exquisitely timed. Mr. Schenk's direction here was masterly, but it could only have been carried out by a great comedian, which Mr. Senechal plainly is. A veteran comic actor, he also retains a strong tenor voice, which he used to advantage in Frantz's dolefully funny aria. The audiencepleaser of the night was the set of the Olympia act, an inspired contraption made of clockworks, music machines, propellers and other working parts of the sort that Rube Goldberg might have dreamed up. The whole set moved into view from a great distance, setting off the first of many great waves of applause during the evening. Perhaps not since the barge's arrival in Barber's ''Antony and Cleopatra'' has the Met's enormous stage depth been used so pointlessly but so humorously put to use. The production, while traditional in most respects - the Ernest Guiraud recitatives were used, for instance, rather than the spoken dialogue of the original version - offered a few piquant ideas. Hoffmann is presented throughout as a man drinking himself to death for love. The prologue and the epilogue in Luther's tavern find him unshaven, unkempt and ranting boozily. But at the end, when the diva Stella has left him for Lindorf, Hoffmann tears down the poster advertising her appearance in ''Don Giovanni'' and begins to write his sad tale on its back. The Cast LES CONTES D'HOFFMANN, opera in three acts by Jacques Offenbach; libretto by Barbier and Carre. Production by Otto Schenck; sets de- signed by Guenther Schneider-Siemssen; cos- tumes designed by Gaby Frey; lighting designed by Gil Wechsler. Riccardo Chailly, conductor. At the Metropolitan Opera. Olympia ..................................Ruth Welting Antonia .........................Christiane Eda-Pierre Giulietta ............................Tatiana Troyanos Nicklausse/Muse ..........................Anne Howells Hoffmann ..............................Placido Domingo Lindorf, Coppelius, Dappertutto, Dr. Miracle Michael Devlin Andres, Cochenille, Pitichinaccio, Frantz Michel Senechal Spalanzani ...............................Andrea Velis Crespel ..................................John Macurdy Antonia's mother ...........................Jean Kraft Nathanael ................................Michael Best Hermann ...............................John Darrenkamp Schlemil ..............................Morley Meredith Luther ..................................William Fleck Stella .................................Pauline Andrey
WHEN it comes time to add up the agonies and the ecstasies of this Metropolitan Opera season, the new production of ''Les Contes d'Hoffmann'' that went on display last night will likely lead the ecstasy list. The entire effort, sumptuously designed by Gunther Schneider-Siemssen, inventively staged by Otto Schenk and conducted with energy and understanding by Riccardo Chailly, proved to be a quality affair. It could have disappointed some students of Offenbach's opera who objected to the director's decision to use the standard Choudens edition of the score rather than an updated version incorporating recent scholarly findings, but even they must have been swept up in the hilarity of the astounding first act. It has never been done more wittily or with more theatrical flair in this reviewer's experience.
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Rockies' Owner Sees Jersey Move
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Peter Gilbert, the owner of the Colorado Rockies, said last night that he expected to receive permission from the National Hockey League to move his club to Byrne Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., for next season. The league has scheduled a meeting in Chicago next Monday to vote on the future of the financially troubled team. A unanimous vote by the board of governors of the 21-team league is required to move a franchise. ''I think everybody is trying to work this out,'' Gilbert said from Buffalo, where he is a cable television executive. He said that in recent weeks, intensity had grown in talks involving not only himself and the league but also the Rangers, the Islanders and the Philadelphia Flyers, whose territorial and television interests are an issue in the proposed move. The Rangers have territorial rights to the area, and the Islanders contend that they have ''media rights'' - that is, that they should be indemnified for a team's coming into their television market. Robert Butera, president of the Flyers, the last remaining team that had been adamantly opposed to Colorado's proposed transfer, said last night that, though his club was still in opposition, ''we don't want to be the only one against them, so to that degree our position has changed.'' Gilbert said that the major change in recent weeks was that ''the Ranger deadline passed,'' a reference to the April 22 date by which the Rangers had obligated themselves to let New Jersey officials know whether that team would seek a move to the Meadowlands. ''In the past, everyone walked away from it, but now everyone has come to grips with it.'' When asked whether he expected approval from the league Monday, he said, ''I truly hope so. I think so. Yes.'' John Ziegler, the league president, acknowledged from Chicago that the tempo had picked up in recent days in attempts to settle the Rockies' future. But he would not comment on Gilbert's chances of bringing to New Jersey that state's first big-league hockey team since the Jersey Knights of the World Hockey Association last played in Cherry Hill almost 10 years ago. ''Anything I would say would jeopardize a lot of hard work in the last few weeks,'' said Ziegler. ''There's been much more work by people in the last 10 days. It is very hard work, and it's important for me not to jeopardize it.''
Peter Gilbert, the owner of the Colorado Rockies, said last night that he expected to receive permission from the National Hockey League to move his club to Byrne Meadowlands Arena in East Rutherford, N.J., for next season. The league has scheduled a meeting in Chicago next Monday to vote on the future of the financially troubled team. A unanimous vote by the board of governors of the 21-team league is required to move a franchise.
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PAPERBACK TALK - NYTimes.com
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The romantic revolution. The Borough President of Brooklyn came over the Bridge to Manhattan to welcome the guests at the opening ceremonies. Rosemary Rogers and Jennifer Wilde, a.k.a. Tom E. Huff, told how devoted they were to each other and to each other's novels. One delighted woman won the drawing that entitled her to dinner at a posh French restaurant with an Indian prince, Khedker of Khed Anjanvel, as her escort. Fifty authors autographed books for their fans. At a score of seminars, writers, editors and art directors described how they work. All the while, reporters and television cameramen roved about, looking for good angles for their stories. Such was the spirit of the two-day Romantic Book Lovers Conference, attended by 350 writers and readers from all parts of the country, held last month at New York's storied St. Regis Hotel under the auspices of Long Island University's Institute for Continuing Education and a fan magazine named Romantic Times. Next month, June 4-6, the Romance Writers of America will hold their second annual conference, aboard the Queen Mary, docked in Long Beach, Calif. The RWA has survived an internecine war and now has six regional organizations and a number of local chapters across the country. These social events are the most visible manifestations of a revolution in popular reading taste that is currently engaging some 20 million American women. Their purchases of what the book trade calls ''brand-name romances'' now bring the mass-market paperback houses more than $200 million a year, approximately one-quarter of their total income. At a time when their business is touch-and-go, the publishers regard the brand-name romance as something to be cherished and nurtured. Its past. The brand-name romance appeared on the American scene less than a decade ago, when Canadian-owned Harlequin Enterprises Ltd. began marketing throughout North America a series of short (60,000-word) formula (girl meets boy, girl has misunderstanding with boy, girl gets boy) novels originated and edited by the London house of Mills & Boon Ltd. Harlequin packaged them uniformly and promoted them as if they were a soap or a soft drink. American women took them to their hearts, grabbing them up as quickly as they were placed in the racks of their neighborhood variety stores and supermarkets. By 1979, Harlequin was selling some 25 million copies of new titles. The revolution greatly escalated in 1980, after Harlequin ''amicably'' severed its relationship with Pocket Books, the Simon & Schuster subsidiary that had been its distributor in this country, and set up its own organization. Simon & Schuster lost no time in creating a romantic line of its own, an almost-identical twin with the brand name Silhouette Books. The bitter ''love war'' that followed - the competition for rack space, authors and the favor of readers -has had far-reaching consequences: * In the past two years, the number of romantic titles published and their dollar sales have increased nearly tenfold. Bookstores have joined variety stores and supermarkets in stocking them. * Virtually every mass-market paperback house now has a brand-nameromance line or plans to start one. Notably successful are Dell's ''Candlelight Ecstasy'' series and Jove's ''Second Chance at Love'' line. It's still too early to tell how Bantam's new, prodigiously market-researched ''Circle of Love'' will do. Coming in the near future: Ballantine's ''Love and Life,'' New American Library's ''Adventures in Love'' and ''Late Love'' and Avon's ''Looking for Mr. Right.'' * As the titles of these new series suggest, the appeal of brandname romances has greatly widened. Now there's something for every kind of reader, from the teen-ager to the woman who uses a walker, from the high-school dropout to the Ph.D. Both Harlequin and Silhouette are starting lines to provide longer reads and a more sophisticated treatment of sexual encounters. * Many of the more veteran writers of brand-name romances have become brand names in their own right. Janet Dailey, whom Silhouette lured away from Harlequin, is by far the best known, but 64 others have large enough personal followings to be profiled in Kathryn Falk's ''Love's Leading Ladies'' (Pinnacle). * A number of editors with a special feel for what readers will like - Harlequin's Vivian Stephens, Silhouette's Karen Solem and Bantam's Carolyn Nichols among them - are scouring the country for promising new talent. Thanks to their efforts, scores of young writers are getting their work published for the first time. * Because marketing specialists play a key role in the brand-nameromance business, television and other forms of promotion are used more extensively than for other types of books. Gimmicks are often resorted to. Currently, Harlequin is putting free samples of its romances in packages of Hefty garbage bags. Its future. The number of American women aged 26 to 45 - the most avid group of romance readers - will grow by 3.7 million by 1986, according to one marketing survey. ''At the moment, it's an almost limitless market,'' says Bantam's publisher, Jack Romanos. Vivien Lee Jennings, editor of the newsletter Boy Meets Girl, takes a less sanguine view: ''Stores have only so much space to display paperbacks. If the flood of new lines keeps increasing, only the very fittest will be able to survive.''
The romantic revolution. The Borough President of Brooklyn came over the Bridge to Manhattan to welcome the guests at the opening ceremonies. Rosemary Rogers and Jennifer Wilde, a.k.a. Tom E. Huff, told how devoted they were to each other and to each other's novels. One delighted woman won the drawing that entitled her to dinner at a posh French restaurant with an Indian prince, Khedker of Khed Anjanvel, as her escort. Fifty authors autographed books for their fans. At a score of seminars, writers, editors and art directors described how they work. All the while, reporters and television cameramen roved about, looking for good angles for their stories. Such was the spirit of the two-day Romantic Book Lovers Conference, attended by 350 writers and readers from all parts of the country, held last month at New York's storied St. Regis Hotel under the auspices of Long Island University's Institute for Continuing Education and a fan magazine named Romantic Times. Next month, June 4-6, the Romance Writers of America will hold their second annual conference, aboard the Queen Mary, docked in Long Beach, Calif. The RWA has survived an internecine war and now has six regional organizations and a number of local chapters across the country.
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THE TROPIC OF MILLER
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''Black Messiah: A Tribute to Henry Miller,'' edited by John Bennett and including essays by Erica Jong, Norman Mailer and Alfred Perles, is a current example of the way Henry Miller has been stubbornly misunderstood ever since he published ''Tropic of Cancer'' in 1934. Though T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams also praised Miller, no other American writer has been so congratulated and censured for being what he was not. Norman Mailer and Erica Jong hail him as a sexual liberator (who is not a liberator these days?) - but while this is not surprising coming from Mr. Mailer, one wonders how Mrs. Jong could approve of a man who, as Kate Millett points out in ''Sexual Politics,'' was not interested in intimacy or tenderness, who in fact didn't even offer women sexual variety. By the standards of Mrs. Jong's generation, with its considerable technical sophistication in these matters, Miller would be condemned as a clumsy and egocentric primitive. Even George Orwell, that sensible man, misunderstood Miller in his essay ''Inside the Whale.'' He spoke of the ''naturalness'' of Miller's sexual behavior as if this were not his own peculiar style, but nature itself. In his foreword to the American edition of ''Tropic of Cancer,'' Karl Shapiro fatuously wrote that there is not a smirk, not a word of exaggeration or boasting anywhere in the book, when almost everything is smirk, exaggeration and boasting. It is one of the ironies of American literature that Miller was able to charm the public with his writing about sex because he was so palpably exaggerating, so innocent in his fantasies. His boasts were so pathetically ordinary, his smirk so un-self-conscious, that they immediately found their places as part of the American adolescent dream. In the 60's, when ''Tropic of Cancer'' was made available here, Americans were enchanted by the idea of sex without anxiety because they hadn't yet realized how expressive, even enhancing, anxiety can be. The idea that sex could be liberated by mere proclamation, by a miracle cure of superficial promiscuity, was as simplistic as the 30's faith in Communism. It is only in exposing the comedy of sex, the times when the partners are confused, intimidated or exhausted by the rhetoric and rituals surrounding the act, that Miller is original. In ''Tropic of Cancer'' he gives a brilliant description of Carl's half-imaginary affair with a rich woman, the ''flower pot'' letters composed of plagiarized passages that he sends her, his inhibition and delicacy as he becomes an American again in the face of her elegance and refinement. Miller's straight sexual passages are among the worst part of his work, and they obscure what is best in it. What he liberated or made natural was not sex, but American fiction, which in the 30's and 40's was inhibited by selfconsciousness and feelings of literary or social obligation. In the concrete incidents of ''Tropic of Cancer,'' Miller brought a largely unprecedented naturalness to narrative prose, an intimacy that we had heard only in Celine and in, say, Dostoyevsky's ''Notes From Underground.'' Miller's autobiographical character anticipated Philip Roth's Portnoy by 35 years. It wasn't Miller's sexual promiscuity that was remarkable, but his indiscriminate or promiscuous acceptance of life. He gave himself up to it with an abandon that was almost unknown before him in our literature. He was a wonderful flaneur, a kind of idle anthropologist, something for which most American writers had no talent or tradition. While his relations to women were self-serving, his real love was Paris. No one has ever described the beauty and the poverty of Paris better than he did. Like Joyce and Proust, he was one of the great poets of the city. Next to Miller, the other American writers in Paris were mere tourists. Certainly Hemingway and Fitzgerald were. But Miller came as close to Paris as Celine himself. Though not as bitter as Celine, who was after all a slum doctor, Miller was not indifferent to the ugliness and brutality of Paris life among the poor. But he saw their poverty posed against the world's most beautiful city, while the poverty and sadness of American life were mocked by the sterile boast of the modern. Miller expatriated our literature, taught us to see ourselves in what Kenneth Burke called ''a perspective by incongruity,'' transplanted into foreign soil. Though Orwell prissily complained that Miller's characters were idlers, Van Norden, Carl and Fillmore in ''Tropic of Cancer, as well as Miller himself, were American picaresques, would-be heroes going the other way, like Wrong-Way Corrigan - not west, but back to Europe, as if their ancestors had forgotten something there that American writers had to go back and retrieve. ''A voice, a friendly American voice without humbug,'' Orwell said, but it was only half-true. There was in Miller's style a great deal of humbug: metaphors crawling like bedbugs, Joycean acrobatics, Celinesque snarls, Rabelaisian runs, Whitmanesque longueurs and worst of all the cracker-barrel philosophizing that suffocated the later novels. It's as if Miller believed what was said about him and saw himself as a gargoyle atop Notre Dame, frightening away evil spirits. He began to bluster about life as he blustered about sex. He fell from a magnificent flaneur to a mere streetcorner evangelist.
''Black Messiah: A Tribute to Henry Miller,'' edited by John Bennett and including essays by Erica Jong, Norman Mailer and Alfred Perles, is a current example of the way Henry Miller has been stubbornly misunderstood ever since he published ''Tropic of Cancer'' in 1934. Though T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound and William Carlos Williams also praised Miller, no other American writer has been so congratulated and censured for being what he was not. Norman Mailer and Erica Jong hail him as a sexual liberator (who is not a liberator these days?) - but while this is not surprising coming from Mr. Mailer, one wonders how Mrs. Jong could approve of a man who, as Kate Millett points out in ''Sexual Politics,'' was not interested in intimacy or tenderness, who in fact didn't even offer women sexual variety. By the standards of Mrs. Jong's generation, with its considerable technical sophistication in these matters, Miller would be condemned as a clumsy and egocentric primitive. Even George Orwell, that sensible man, misunderstood Miller in his essay ''Inside the Whale.'' He spoke of the ''naturalness'' of Miller's sexual behavior as if this were not his own peculiar style, but nature itself.
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BUSINESS DIGEST - THURSDAY, MARCH 18, 1982 - Companies - NYTimes.com
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Braniff announced plans to turn over to Pan Am most of its South American routes for the next four years in return for critically needed cash. The C.A.B. voiced doubts about the accord, however, and Air Florida contested it. Under the plan, Braniff could get at least $30 million from Pan Am by next year. (Page D1.) Procter & Gamble has agreed to acquire the pharmaceutical division of Morton-Norwich Products for $371 million in cash. The division produces over-the-counter medications along with an array of prescription drugs and other products sold primarily to hospitals. The transaction is subject to Federal antitrust review. (D1.) An affiliate of Morgan Stanley was retiring a $7.8 million debt it owed John S.R. Shad, head of the S.E.C., when the commission dealt with a new rule opposed by the investment banker, public records show. Mr. Shad, before joining in the agency's decision, was told by its counsel that the tie posed no conflict of interest. (D1.) Marshall Field's stock rose sharply in hectic trading amid speculation that a takeover battle could still develop. The stock climbed $1 a share yesterday, to $25.50, with more than half a million shares changing hands, after a $2.50 rise Tuesday. (D5.) A.T.& T. reported a 21.9 percent rise in net income in the three months ended Feb. 28, to $1.78 billion. (D6.) Dayton-Hudson's earnings rose 19 percent in the fourth quarter of its 1981 fiscal year, while May Department Stores' rose 6.1 percent. (D6.) The date of Technology's next issue is uncertain as its owners seek potential partners in a bid for capital, according to an executive of the new magazine's parent company. She said subscription income had not come in as quickly as expected. (D6.) Two-thirds of the Wienerwald restaurant chain will be sold as franchises to improve liquidity, the company said. (D4.) The Energy Department may buy a Washington State nuclear plant where construction has been suspended because of cost overruns, Secretary James B. Edwards said in an interview. (A20.) The Economy Murray L. Weidenbaum hinted that he may back a delay in the mid-1983 tax cut. This would put the Administration's chief economist at odds with President Reagan. Mr. Weidenbaum, in a talk on supply-side economics, took a position that, officials said, seems to argue against cutting taxes while the budget is in deficit. (D1.) Oil refiners in the U.S. are closing as prices of their products fall more rapidly than the cost of crude oil. Between 50 and 60 refineries have closed in the past 15 months, a trade group says. (D1.) Manufacturers operated their plants at 71.8 percent of capacity in February, an increase of 1.2 points, the Federal Reserve Board reported. It said that, while the increase was the first after six declines, the rate was the second-lowest in six years. (D15.) International The M.T.A. signed a contract with a Japanese manufacturer to but 325 subway cars, to be financed in part by a $126 million loan from the Japanese Government. The new cars, described as graffitiresistant, will cost $844,500 each. (A1.) The I.C.C. and Congress are looking into truckers' complaints that Canadians are taking advantage of easier American rules while Americans are being deterred from competing in Canada. At the heart of the dispute is an agency in Canada that may reject a bid to do business there if no ''benefit to Canada'' is likely. (D18.) Markets The stock market declined slightly, with the Dow Jones industrial average down 2.48 points, to 795.85, just above its recent 22-month low. (D8.) Interest rates were little changed in quiet trading. (D11.) Gold prices rose $4.50 an ounce, to $317.50, in New York, while the dollar edged downward in foreign currency trading. (D12.) Hog and pork belly futures prices were sharply higher. (D12.) Today's Columns Restaurants are increasingly making use of computer terminals to place food orders and to print and tally checks. By keeping track of which items are ordered by which waiters, the systems also help owners assess their menus and their employees. Technology. (D2.) Mergers of commercial banks and healthy thrift institutions may be in the offing, according to one analyst. Such combinations, he maintains, have become more likely in the absence of action by Congress to aid the troubled thrift industry. Market Place. (D8.)
Braniff announced plans to turn over to Pan Am most of its South American routes for the next four years in return for critically needed cash. The C.A.B. voiced doubts about the accord, however, and Air Florida contested it. Under the plan, Braniff could get at least $30 million from Pan Am by next year. (Page D1.) Procter & Gamble has agreed to acquire the pharmaceutical division of Morton-Norwich Products for $371 million in cash. The division produces over-the-counter medications along with an array of prescription drugs and other products sold primarily to hospitals. The transaction is subject to Federal antitrust review. (D1.)
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UPDIKE AND KIDDER WIN AMERICAN BOOK AWARDS
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John Updike and Tracy Kidder, both of whom won Pulitzer Prizes last week, were among the winners in the literary categories of the 1982 American Book Awards. Mr. Updike won the hard-cover fiction award for ''Rabbit Is Rich,'' published by Knopf, an updated portrait of Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom as a middle-aged suburbanite. The book, the author's 10th novel and the third in the ''Rabbit'' trilogy that consists of ''Rabbit Run'' (1960) and ''Rabbit Redux'' (1971), had previously been named the outstanding work of fiction for 1981 by the National Book Critics Circle. In his review in The New York Times last September, John Leonard called it ''a splendid achievement.'' Mr. Kidder won the hard-cover nonfiction award for ''The Soul of a New Machine,'' published by Atlantic/Little, Brown, a profile of a computer company and its employees. The award-winning first novel is ''Dale Loves Sophie to Death,'' from Farrar, Straus & Giroux, by Robb Forman Dew. The book explores the emotional struggles of a wife who returns with her children to her childhood hometown in Ohio while her husband remains in Massachusetts. The poetry award went to ''Life Supports'' by William Bronk, a collection of more than 400 poems published by the North Point Press. Presentation Next Week The winners, who will each receive $1,000 and a Louise Nevelson sculpture created for the awards, were chosen from 90 hard-cover and paperback books by a panel of judges including authors, librarians, booksellers, critics and editors. The awards will be presented at Carnegie Hall next Tuesday at a ceremony with Barbara Walters and William F. Buckley Jr. as cohosts. During the ceremony, John Cheever will be given the National Medal for Literature. The other hard-cover winners include the Rev. Peter John Powell, founding director of St. Augustine's Indian Center in Chicago, for ''People of the Sacred Mountain'' (Harper & Row), the history winner for the story of the Cheyenne people told through their oral history and art. David McCullough won in the autobiography-biography category for ''Mornings on Horseback'' (Simon & Schuster), an account of the young Theodore Roosevelt. 'Lucy' Wins Science Award The winner for science was ''Lucy'' (Simon & Schuster) by Donald Johanson and Maitland Edey, a study of evolution told through the discovery and controversy surrounding the oldest skeleton of an erect-walking human ancestor. The translation award was shared by Robert Lyons Danly for ''In the Shade of Spring Leaves'' (Yale University Press), a biography of Higushi Ichiyo, a woman of letters in Meiji Japan, and Ian Hideo Levy for ''The Ten Thousand Leaves'' (Princeton University Press), the first volume of the Man'yoshu collection of Japanese lyric poetry. ''Outside Over There'' (Harper & Row) by Maurice Sendak won the hard-cover picture-book award; ''Westmark'' (E.P. Dutton) by Lloyd Alexander won for children's hard-cover fiction, and ''A Penguin Year'' (Delacorte) by Susan Bonners won the children's nonfiction award. The paperback winners are: Fiction: ''So Long, See You Tomorrow'' by William Maxwell, Ballantine. Nonfiction: ''Naming Names'' by Victor S. Navasky, Penguin. History: ''The Generation of 1914'' by Robert Wohl, Harvard University Press. Autobiography-Biography: ''Walter Lippman and the American Century'' by Ronald Steel, Vintage. Science: ''Taking the Quantum Leap'' by Fred Alan Wolf, Harper & Row. Children's Picture Books: ''Noah's Ark'' by Peter Spier, Zephyr/Doubleday. Children's Fiction: ''Words by Heart'' by Quida Sebestyen, Bantam. Graphic awards winners are: Design, Pictorial: Susan Mitchell for ''Nicaragua'' by Susan Meiselas, Pantheon. Design, Typographical: Betty Anderson for ''Edith Sitwell'' by Victoria Glendinning, Knopf. Illustration, Collected Art: Bill Katz for ''The World of Donald Evans'' by Willy Eisenhart, Harlin Quist. Illustration, Original Art: Chris Van Allsburg for ''Jumanji,'' Houghton Mifflin. Illustration, Photographs: Deborah Turbeville for 'Unseen Versailles,'' Doubleday. Cover Design, Mass-Market: Milton Charles for ''The Best of John Sladek,'' Pocket. Cover Design, Trade: Fred Marcellino for ''African Stories'' by Doris Lessing, Simon & Schuster. Jacket Design: Janet Odgis for ''Remembrance of Things Past'' by Marcel Proust, Random House. Illustrations: photo of John Updike
John Updike and Tracy Kidder, both of whom won Pulitzer Prizes last week, were among the winners in the literary categories of the 1982 American Book Awards. Mr. Updike won the hard-cover fiction award for ''Rabbit Is Rich,'' published by Knopf, an updated portrait of Harry (Rabbit) Angstrom as a middle-aged suburbanite. The book, the author's 10th novel and the third in the ''Rabbit'' trilogy that consists of ''Rabbit Run'' (1960) and ''Rabbit Redux'' (1971), had previously been named the outstanding work of fiction for 1981 by the National Book Critics Circle. In his review in The New York Times last September, John Leonard called it ''a splendid achievement.''
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About Cars - 4-WHEEL DRIVE IN A TURBO COUPE - NYTimes.com
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BADWATER, Calif. HALFWAY up the cliff there is a sign. Somebody has gone to a lot of trouble to put it there, and it says simply Sea Level. Two— hundred-eighty-two feet below, the car is glinting gold in the sun, parked at the lowest point on the continent, poised for a dash across Death Valley and a 9,000-foot climb into the snow of the Sierras. That is just the right kind of trip for a four-wheel-drive screamer like Audi's new Quattro, and the turbocharged version of the company's sport coupe is ready to prove itself. The road splits the desert, aimed dead at the horizon, and the Quattro slashes along, turning 5,200 r.p.m. in fifth gear. With the Federally mandated 85-m.p.h. speedometer, it's hard to tell exactly how fast the car is moving, but Ferdinand Piech says you can figure 25 miles per thousand revolutions in fifth, and that means we are doing about 130. Herr Piech is the man who created this high-performance monster, and he is in the passenger's seat, relaxing since there is nothing to mow down and no policemen to jump out of the bushes. There are, in fact, no bushes. There are just these barren flats of alkali, with the mountains off in the blue haze ahead, and Mr. Piech rambles along in a heavy German accent, talking about the beauty of America and about his newest love. He is Audi's director of research and development, and his love - this Quattro - went on sale in the United States just this month. It had its genesis in March 1977, however, and the American model is the result of five years of marketing and racing experience in Europe. In appearance, the car is a flared, spoilered and bulge-fendered version of Audi's $17,000 coupe, designed by Giugiaro and looking sort of like a big-daddy Volkswagen Scirocco. In truth, though, the Quattro shares few parts with the coupe, according to Mr. Piech. Where the coupe has 100 horsepower, the Quattro's five-cylinder engine pulls 156 horses out of its 2.1 liters of displacement. It does that with a hotter cam, a turbocharger and an intercooler, which is actually a small radiator to chill intake air and increase the density of the combustion mixture. As a result, the 2,838-pound car accelerates from zero to 60 in 7.5 seconds, nearly three seconds faster than the coupe. But the real difference is the Quattro's four-wheel-drive setup. Instead of the transfer case used in other all-drive vehicles, the Quattro sends its power through concentric shafts inside the transmission, with the outer shaft driving the rear wheels and the solid inner shaft driving the front. That saves weight, says Mr. Piech, and allows a low silhouette not possible with conventional four-wheel-drive units. With the Quattro, ground clearance is only five inches, and that means better aerodynamics and a lower center of gravity. Another advantage is improved economy. Transfer cases tend to eat energy because of churning oil and the extra friction caused by additional bearings, gears and seals. However, says Mr. Piech, the Quattro's drivetrain is only 3 percent less efficient than a two-wheeldrive unit, and the loss is more than offset by the fact that a driven wheel has less rolling resistance than one that free-wheels. The car does require unleaded premium, but its rating is 17, city, and 28, highway. It has a 23.8-gallon tank, and that allows a realistic fill-up range of about 600 miles - not bad for any car, let alone one that howls along like the Quattro. On the road, you don't notice that power is flowing to all four corners. What you do notice, particularly at high speed, is surefootedness and a quiet, solid ride. Even in snaky turns and switchbacks, the Quattro sticks like spilled Coke. Snow, of course, is another of the car's real elements, and the roads leading to the ski resort at Mammoth Mountain proved it. A knob in the console locks the rear differential, making the back axle a solid shaft to provide better traction, and the car definitely will go where most others won't. Braking is another matter, however, and the Quattro is subject to the same laws of slip and slide that apply to any body in movement. Which is to say that the car churns through snow and ice so well that you occasionally forget that it will skid just as far and just as fast as any other. On mountain downhills, that is a thing to be remembered. One of the few problems with the car, noted particularly in steep climbs, is the big spread between second and third gears. Second is too low and third is too high, meaning that the driver has a choice of listening to the engine scream or feeling it lug. Confronted with both of those situations, Mr. Piech smiles and nods. A change is in the works, he says. Even so, not many people are going to be troubled with the problem - nor will many get to enjoy this car that may well be the state of the art. Audi has only 33 employees at work on the Quattro line, limiting capacity to 2,000 units a year, and 500 are earmarked for the United States. That's barely more than one per dealer, but if you take your $35,000 and hurry on down. ...
hundred-eighty-two feet below, the car is glinting gold in the sun, parked at the lowest point on the continent, poised for a dash across Death Valley and a 9,000-foot climb into the snow of the Sierras. That is just the right kind of trip for a four-wheel-drive screamer like Audi's new Quattro, and the turbocharged version of the company's sport coupe is ready to prove itself. The road splits the desert, aimed dead at the horizon, and the Quattro slashes along, turning 5,200 r.p.m. in fifth gear. With the Federally mandated 85-m.p.h. speedometer, it's hard to tell exactly how fast the car is moving, but Ferdinand Piech says you can figure 25 miles per thousand revolutions in fifth, and that means we are doing about 130.
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ENGINEERING-SCHOOL SHORTCOMINGS LEAD TO U.S. LAG
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THE story is told that when Congress passed legislation on automobile emission control some years ago, the first thing auto makers did in Japan was to hire 2,000 more engineers. In Detroit, they hired 2,000 more lawyers. The joke has some grounding in demographic and educational statistics. Twenty of every 10,000 people in the United States are lawyers, 40 are accountants and 70 are engineers. In Japan, the comparable figures are one lawyer, three accountants -and 400 engineers. In the United States, 6 percent of the undergraduate degrees are awarded in engineering. The comparable figures are 21 percent in Japan, 35 percent in the Soviet Union and 37 percent in West Germany. A recent editorial in the trade journal Optical Spectre cited such data as a principal reason why the United States ''finds itself playing second fiddle to Japan today in so many high-technology areas where American pre-eminence was once unquestioned.'' There is a growing consensus in American industry that this conclusion is correct. Virtually every major company now finds itself in the market for engineers. ''Everyone has his own needs for automation and computerization, from soup makers to the cosmetics industry,'' said Robert Jahn, Princeton University's dean of engineering. ''That's why there won't be a slump in the future. Engineering is central to any enterprise. You can't be in any area without sophisticated engineering.'' Unfortunately for young people eager to take advantage of the growing market for engineers, the educational system is only beginning to adjust to these new realities and there are not enough slots for aspiring engineers. And even those high school graduates who do succeed in making it into an engineering program are finding that its courses are often geared more to the past than the present. The problems faced by American engineering schools go back to World War II and, later, to the launching of Sputnik by the Soviet Union in 1957. Developments such as radar, atomic energy and the technology related to the exploration of space caught the imagination of the nation and the brightest engineering students. For all practical purposes, engineering education became a form of applied science, and ''down-to-earth'' fields such as manufacturing engineering became a dumping ground for the less able students. Richard Cyert, president of Carnegie-Mellon University, said that ''manufacturing problems were handled by foremen who had worked their way up without college degrees and the background to do a creative job.'' In the fall of 1980, according to the Engineering Manpower Commission of the American Association of Engineering Societies, there were only 88 full-time and 11 part-time undergraduates in the nation majoring in manufacturing engineering. Japan, by contrast, was moving in the other direction. While Americans were winning one Nobel Prize after another for their scientific discoveries, Japanese engineers were applying them to the assembly line and making productivity and quality control their central concerns. The results can be seen clearly in the current balance of trade between the two nations. Among the problems in many American engineering schools is that their teaching equipment is not up to date. A recent report by the American Society of Electrical Engineers found that most of the equipmennt is 20 to 30 years old. A basic problem is that inflation has sent equipment costs soaring while the time from purchase to obsolescence has become shorter. The situation is compounded by sluggish Federal commitment to research. William G. Bowen, the president of Princeton University, noted that ''between 1962 and 1975, while the fraction of the gross national product devoted to research and development in West Germany increased by 80 percent and the comparable fraction in Japan grew by 31 percent, in the United States there was a 15 percent decline.'' Perhaps the most important affliction affecting engineering schools is that American industry is eating its young - offering graduates starting salaries that often match or surpass those of the professors who taught them. As a result, colleges are hard-pressed to find young faculty members to teach the next generation of engineers - or even graduate students to train to become faculty members. ''My seniors will be looking at three or four or five offers up to $30,000 a year,'' said Dean Jahn of Princeton. ''To take a kid like that and convince him to go through four more years of poverty to be able to earn less as an assistant professor than he can now is a short conversation indeed.'' For the high school graduate who gets admitted to an engineering program with a large enough faculty and sufficient equipment, engineering educators suggest several trends to keep in mind. First is the growing emphasis on design. Realizing that the Japanese have surpassed us with their ability to apply new knowledge rather than to discover it, engineering schools are rediscovering the field of design - not only for elegance, but for ease of manufacture.
THE story is told that when Congress passed legislation on automobile emission control some years ago, the first thing auto makers did in Japan was to hire 2,000 more engineers. In Detroit, they hired 2,000 more lawyers. The joke has some grounding in demographic and educational statistics. Twenty of every 10,000 people in the United States are lawyers, 40 are accountants and 70 are engineers. In Japan, the comparable figures are one lawyer, three accountants -and 400 engineers. In the United States, 6 percent of the undergraduate degrees are awarded in engineering. The comparable figures are 21 percent in Japan, 35 percent in the Soviet Union and 37 percent in West Germany. A recent editorial in the trade journal Optical Spectre cited such data as a principal reason why the United States ''finds itself playing second fiddle to Japan today in so many high-technology areas where American pre-eminence was once unquestioned.'' There is a growing consensus in American industry that this conclusion is correct. Virtually every major company now finds itself in the market for engineers. ''Everyone has his own needs for automation and computerization, from soup makers to the cosmetics industry,'' said Robert Jahn, Princeton University's dean of engineering. ''That's why there won't be a slump in the future. Engineering is central to any enterprise. You can't be in any area without sophisticated engineering.''
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TWO REFERENDUMS FACE VOTERS ON TUESDAY
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''SHALL the resolution of the county authorizing the establishment of Refuse Disposal District No. 1 be approved?'' Voters answering that question Tuesday in 35 municipalities will also settle the issue of who will pay how much to operate the first regional plant in the county that will produce electricity by burning garbage. Disposal of the county's garbage has become an increasingly critical issue in recent years as municipal incinerators and dumping grounds have been closed by Federal and state orders to protect the environment. The single largest garbage repository in the county, the Croton dump, is scheduled to close by mid-1985 when the garbage-to-energy plant is expected to be operating in Peekskill. Croton accepted about 256,000 tons of county garbage last year. Support for a regional - rather than local - garbage solution grew on the assumption that the county, working with municipalities, could do a more efficient job at less cost than the municipalities could do by themselves. The result is the proposed Peekskill plant, to be built for about $180 million and operated by Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. with financial help from the county. Its furnaces, with an yearly capacity of about 657,000 tons, will burn the county's garbage, heat water, produce steam and generate electricity that the Consolidated Edison Company has agreed to purchase. Tuesday's referendum proposes a way to finance the plant. It would create a garbage district with taxing power to help raise operating subsidies for the plant. The administration of County Executive Alfred B. DelBello, a Democrat, and a majority of the Republican-controlled Board of Legislators are in favor of the district, but opposition to the plan has found a voice in Mayor Alfred Del Vecchio of White Plains. A ''yes'' vote to establish the district would be a mandate to tax all within it, including owners previously exempt from real-estate taxes, such as schools, churches, synagogues, foundations, parks and other governmental property. Proponents say this method will broaden the tax base and therefore reduce individual costs. Money raised on district property will help to close the gap between a $17-a-ton dumping charge, or ''tipping fee,'' charged to municipalities and the true cost of the system, which the county estimates will be about $43 a ton. Participating communities have been guaranteed that the $17 price will not rise before Dec. 31, 1989. The tax will disappear by the year 2000, county officials say, as the tipping fee rises to $34 a ton and covers what is then expected to be the full cost of operation. The county expects that profit sharing with Wheelabrator-Frye will result in the decline of the cost from $43 a ton. Mayor Del Vecchio, a Republican, says he is against the whole garbage plan - the creation of the district, the location of the plant and the fact that one large plant is planned instead of several smaller ones. Mr. DelBello says that opposition to the plan is ''apparently getting way far afield.'' ''They're debating the siting of the plant,'' he said. He emphasized that the referendum would settle only the question of financing the Peekskill installation. ''I'm opposed to the tax district,'' Mr. Del Vecchio said, ''because it's a blank check for the county. There's no cap on what a particular municipality can be charged. Some czar will be in control. They can lay claim to our taxable property with no management plan.'' Mr. Del Vecchio said he estimated the total cost of garbage disposal would be about $72 a ton. Mr. DelBello, however, said that existence of a taxing district would enable the Wheelabrator-Frye plant to be built through a bond issue ''with the cheapest interest rates possible'' and save taxpayers ''tens of millions of dollars.'' If the district is defeated, Mr. DelBello said, he might recommend ''backing away'' from the county's plan and leaving the municipalities to pay for garbage disposal themselves. In 1979, the 35 communities that will vote on the district signed an Intermunicipal Agreement and formally joined the garbage plan. They are the cities of Mount Vernon, New Rochelle, Peekskill, Rye, White Plains and Yonkers; the towns of Cortlandt, Eastchester, Greenburgh, Harrison, Mamaroneck, Mount Pleasant, Ossining, Rye and Yorktown and the villages of Ardsley, Briarcliff Manor, Bronxville, Buchanan, Croton-on-Hudson, Dobbs Ferry, Elmsford, Hastings-on-Hudson, Irvington, Larchmont, Mamaroneck, Mount Kisco, North Tarrytown, Ossining, Pelham Manor, Pleasantville, Port Chester, Scarsdale, Tarrytown and Tuckahoe. Communities that did not join the plan and will not vote are Somers, North Salem, Lewisboro, Pound Ridge, Bedford, New Castle, North Castle and Pelham. The county garbage plan also calls for construction of an unspecified number of transfer stations in which garbage collected by municipalities is compacted, transferred to trailer trucks and taken to Peekskill. One such station exists near the Gov. Thomas E. Dewey Thruway in Yonkers, and construction on a second in Mount Vernon is expected to begin in the fall, according to Edward K. Davies, the county's deputy commissioner of Public Works for the Solid Waste Program.
''SHALL the resolution of the county authorizing the establishment of Refuse Disposal District No. 1 be approved?'' Voters answering that question Tuesday in 35 municipalities will also settle the issue of who will pay how much to operate the first regional plant in the county that will produce electricity by burning garbage. Disposal of the county's garbage has become an increasingly critical issue in recent years as municipal incinerators and dumping grounds have been closed by Federal and state orders to protect the environment. The single largest garbage repository in the county, the Croton dump, is scheduled to close by mid-1985 when the garbage-to-energy plant is expected to be operating in Peekskill. Croton accepted about 256,000 tons of county garbage last year. Support for a regional - rather than local - garbage solution grew on the assumption that the county, working with municipalities, could do a more efficient job at less cost than the municipalities could do by themselves. The result is the proposed Peekskill plant, to be built for about $180 million and operated by Wheelabrator-Frye Inc. with financial help from the county. Its furnaces, with an yearly capacity of about 657,000 tons, will burn the county's garbage, heat water, produce steam and generate electricity that the Consolidated Edison Company has agreed to purchase.
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JENKINS DOES WELL BUT IS THAT GOOD ENOUGH?
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LONDON— It had been widely advertised as the watershed byelection of postwar British politics, but the outcome last week in the Hillhead constituency of Glasgow raised more questions about the future than it answered. The only fact clearly demonstrated was that the Social Democratic-Liberal alliance is not dead but is still a threat to the old parties, still a third force of consequence. That much was evident in the victory of Roy Jenkins, the 61-year-old former deputy leader of the Labor Party, in a constituency that had elected Conservatives since 1918. Had Mr. Jenkins lost, things would have looked much clearer Friday morning, the first anniversary of the Social Democrats' formal launching. A defeat for the party's best-known figure, the man best qualified to tighten its alliance with the Liberals, would have been a clear indication that the Social Democrats were on the skids. Had he won by a large margin, it would have been a clear sign that the astonishing forward march of the alliance through much of last year was continuing. But Mr. Jenkins won by only 2,038 votes. He polled only 33 percent of the total, his party's poorest showing in the four by-elections it has entered. Even at Warrington in July, where he was narrowly beaten, Mr. Jenkins won 42 percent, and at Crosby in November, Shirley Williams, another of the party's founders, took 49. Mrs. Williams and others argued that the low percentage resulted from the presence in the race of the Scottish National Party. But the nationalists got only 12 percent of the vote, and opinion polls said no more than a third of those who voted for them would have chosen Mr. Jenkins if no nationalist had run. Putting the best face on it, then, the alliance's total would still have fallen well short of the crucial 40 percent mark. In an electoral system like Britain's, the few percentage points between 35 and 40 determine whether a party elects many Members of Parliament or merely amasses a big popular vote by finishing second in many seats. This is especially true of a group such as the Social Democratic-Liberal alliance, whose strength tends to be diffused throughout the country. One computer study projected the Hillhead result onto the next general election, due in late 1983 or early 1984, and found that the alliance would capture only 128 seats as compared with 275 for Labor and 207 for the Conservatives. That would produce a hung Parliament. In such circumstances, the Tories might seek a coalition with the alliance, probably replacing Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher as their leader in the process. Or Labor, as the largest party, might try to form a minority government, staking all on a new election if the alliance brought it down. Michael Foot, the Labor leader, said again last week that his party would in no circumstances enter into a coalition with anyone. It may be, of course, that the alliance is now emerging from the slump it experienced this winter, largely as a result of the lack of an overall leader and of bickering with the Liberals over the allocation of seats each party will contest in the general election. The optimists believe that the victory at Hillhead has provided just the tonic to banish memories of the growing pains of the last five months. It is now conceded by everyone, including Mrs. Williams and Dr. David Owen, his only potential rivals, that Mr. Jenkins will be chosen as the Social Democrats' leader this fall and almost certainly as the alliance's candidate for Prime Minister. David Steel, the Liberal leader, has said privately that he prefers Mr. Jenkins. Mr. Jenkins, who served in Labor governments as Home Secretary and Chancellor of the Exchequer before going to Brussels in 1976 as president of the European Economic Community, is a polished performer in Parliament. His skills may help the alliance to project a positive program, instead of relying as it has in the past largely on public dissatisfaction with the other parties' platforms. The big test will be whether Mr. Jenkins, the Oxford-educated son of a Welsh trade union official, can persuade the British people that he and his colleagues constitute a credible alternative government. His supporters believe that he is uniquely qualified to do this. But there is also a pessimistic view. The party has no more byelection candidates of the stature of Mrs. Williams and Mr. Jenkins in sight. Besides, general elections often fail to follow the pattern of by-elections, in which the voters can register a protest without affecting control of the government. John Biffen, a sage member of the Thatcher Cabinet, says one must not confuse ''the politics of anger'' with ''the politics of choice.'' Less Tory Squabbling The Tories hope that the current feeble signs of economic recovery will grow stronger and that voters will reward Mrs. Thatcher's steadfastness rather than penalize her for allowing unemployment to reach three million. As the election draws closer, the Government will have the tactical advantage of defining the issues and distributing largess. Already, thoughts of the voting have almost completely silenced its internal debates over economic policy. Whether Labor, too, will be able to establish some precampaign unity is a major question. The party's swerve to the left was the largest single factor in the Social Democrats' creation and it continues to cause ructions. In the aftermath of Hillhead, right-wing Labor M.P.'s called for the explusion of extreme leftists from the party. But the left's leader, Tony Benn, believes Labor will benefit from its anti-Common Market, antinuclear stands and from a split in the right-center vote between the alliance and the Conservatives. It would appear, as the British like to say, that there is still everything to play for. Attention will now focus on local council elections in May and two by-elections to follow. But for the moment, that ephemeral quality known as momentum is once more with the alliance. If they are not yet established as favorites in the general election, they are once again established as contenders. Illustrations: photo of Roy Jenkins
It had been widely advertised as the watershed byelection of postwar British politics, but the outcome last week in the Hillhead constituency of Glasgow raised more questions about the future than it answered. The only fact clearly demonstrated was that the Social Democratic-Liberal alliance is not dead but is still a threat to the old parties, still a third force of consequence. That much was evident in the victory of Roy Jenkins, the 61-year-old former deputy leader of the Labor Party, in a constituency that had elected Conservatives since 1918. Had Mr. Jenkins lost, things would have looked much clearer Friday morning, the first anniversary of the Social Democrats' formal launching. A defeat for the party's best-known figure, the man best qualified to tighten its alliance with the Liberals, would have been a clear indication that the Social Democrats were on the skids. Had he won by a large margin, it would have been a clear sign that the astonishing forward march of the alliance through much of last year was continuing.
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The Nation in Summary
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The United Auto Workers added another chorus to the popular ''Wage Concession Blues'' last week. By a 299 to 25 vote the union's General Motors council approved a new contract with G.M. that calls for wage cutbacks and benefit concessions that could save the company $2.5 million. The endorsement came as the auto industry's two-year slump continued. The Big Three reported a 43.5 percent drop in mid-March sales from 1981. For the year to date, domestic auto makers have suffered a 24.4 percent decline in sales from last year's comparable period. General Motors, with 61.7 percent of the domestic market, has fared better than its competition, a major factor in contract breakdowns with the U.A.W. in January when the rank and file refused to go along with wage and benefit concessions. The company's subsequent threat to close eight plants and lay off an additional 11,300 workers, combined with the U.A.W.'s agreement with Ford last month, is expected to make the contract more palatable to G.M.'s 340,000 blue collar workers. The new contract calls for workers to forgo annual pay raises, give up as many as nine days a year in paid time off and defer for nine months cost-of-living increases. In return the company will not close four plants, and agreed to a profit sharing plan which, unlike the Ford plan, bases profits to be shared on assets rather than sales. There is also a prepaid legal services plan and an initiative to cut costs by changing restrictive work rules in the plants.
The United Auto Workers added another chorus to the popular ''Wage Concession Blues'' last week. By a 299 to 25 vote the union's General Motors council approved a new contract with G.M. that calls for wage cutbacks and benefit concessions that could save the company $2.5 million.
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THE CALENDAR - The Calendar - NYTimes.com
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It's Cherry Blossom Week in Washington. But the urgency of the capital's official calendar likely will cut into the sightseeing. The big news will be Congressional reaction to yesterday's elections in El Salvador, which will no doubt set the tone for the continuing House hearings on President Reagan's Caribbean Basin initiative and for the appearance on Friday of Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Also expected is a Presidential news conference at midweek and continued manuvering on a budget package. The Cherry Blossom Festival offically begins at 7 P.M. today with the lighting of the Japanese stone lantern at the Tidal Basin, although National Park Service experts on things pink and growing predict that the blossoms won't actually burst into the open until April 6. The festival ends Saturday with a two-hour parade down Constitution Avenue and a ball at the Sheraton Washington Hotel. Tough Question: Should there be increased secrecy and control of science and technological information? Adm. Bobby Inman, deputy director of Central Intelligence, and Frank Press, president of the National Academy of Science, will offer answers when they appear before a joint hearing of the House Subcommittee on Science, Research and Technology and the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight. 9 A.M. Room 2318, Rayburn Office Building. Grass Roots Witness: The Senate Agriculture Committee will hold hearings on administration of the food stamp program. 9:30 A.M. Room 324, Russell Offfice Building. Floor Business: The Senate takes up a continuing resolution to provide stopgap funding for a group of departments and agencies that have not yet received their appropriations. Deadline: Wednesday. There's the possibility of a another cliffhanger with some governmental payrolls and programs going unfunded if amendments are added on controversial issues such as school prayer, busing and abortion. Tuesday The House is scheduled to take up a $5 billion supplemental appropriations bill for the current fiscal year shortly after noon today. That figure includes $1.3 billion for the threatened student loan program. Numbers to Watch: The Commerce Department's leading economic indicators are due out and may give the first signal that the recession is near its end. Ready or Not: Senate Budget Committee begins work on the fiscal 1983 budget. 11 A.M., Room 6202, Dirksen Office Building. Offering Proof: Administration officials and medical doctors from Laos will present evidence on Soviet use of chemical warfare in Asia when the House Foreign Affairs Committee meets at 2 P.M. in Room 2220, Rayburn Building. Expect some tough grilling. Wednesday The House Subcommitttee on Foreign Operations looks at Agency for International Development and military appropriations for the Near and Middle East in Room H-308 in the Capitol. On Thursday, the subcommittee will hear Treasury Secretary Donald T. Regan on the subject of multilateral development banks. Thursday Nancy Reagan takes to the road again to spotlight drug prevention and drug treatment programs. She will be in Atlanta today and tommorrow, attending the eighth annual Pride Conference at Georgia State University on Friday. Friday House Subcommittee on International Security and Scientific Affairs holds hearings on strategic arms control and American national security policy. Among the witnesses: Assistant Secretary of Defense Richard N. Perle and Richard Burt, director of the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs. 10 A.M. Room 2255, Rayburn Office Building. Delphic Figures? Unemployment statistics for March come out. They'll provide further evidence on the state of the recession. Barbara Gamarekian
Monday It's Cherry Blossom Week in Washington. But the urgency of the capital's official calendar likely will cut into the sightseeing. The big news will be Congressional reaction to yesterday's elections in El Salvador, which will no doubt set the tone for the continuing House hearings on President Reagan's Caribbean Basin initiative and for the appearance on Friday of Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
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ARTS AND LETTERS GROUP GIVES AWARD TO KNOPF
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At the grants and induction ceremony of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters yesterday afternoon, the annual award for distinguished service to the arts was presented to Alfred A. Knopf by John Hersey, the novelist and reporter who is chancellor of the academy. Mr. Knopf was cited for bringing American readers ''innovative works in contemporary foreign literature'' and also for ''a consistently high quality of American works.'' Mr. Hersey has been published by Knopf for many years. During the ceremonial at the Academy-Institute's headquarters at 633 West 155th Street, on Audubon Terrace, William Schuman, composer and arts administrator, and Francis Steegmuller, biographer, novelist and translator, received gold medals in music and biography. Leonard Bernstein and Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr., the historian who is president of the Academy-Institute, were formally admitted to the academy. The 50-member academy is drawn from the 250 members of the institute. Reagan Cutbacks Assailed Mr. Schlesinger used the occasion to attack the Reagan Administration for cutbacks in the arts, humanities, libraries, museums and historical documents. He also deplored a new wave of censorship against books, including ''Huckleberry Finn''; Mark Twain was a member of the American Academy. Three foreign artists were elected as new honorary members, Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian novelist; Christina Stead, an Australian novelist, and Hans Werner Henze, a German-born composer. New members of the institute were welcomed by William Meredith, secretary. In the department of art they are Will Barnet, R.B. Kitaj, Philip Pearlstein, Cesar Pelli, Minoru Yamasaki and Ilya Bolotowsky, posthumously; in literature, Stanley Elkin, Shirley Hazzard, Edward Hoagland, R.W.B. Lewis, Czeslaw Milosz and Marguerite Yourcenar, and in music, Chou Wen-chung and Mario Davidovsky. 17 Awards of $5,000 Seventeen Academy-Institute awards of $5,000 each were presented. They are, in art, Nizette Brennan, Michael David, George McNeil, Alan Motch and Manuel Neri; in literature, David H. Bradley Jr., Frederick Buechner, Mac Donald Harris, Daryl Hine, Josephine Jacobsen, Donald Keene, Berton Rouche and Robert Stone, and in music, Douglas Allanbrook, James Tenney, George Walker and Ramon Zupko. Special awards were given to Terry Winters, Mark Helprin, William Heyen, Ted Mooney, Marilynne Robinson, Eleanor Perenyi, Edouard Roditi, Harold Bloom, F.T. Prince, Stephen Dembski, Paul Dresher, Michael Gandolfi, Peter Golub, Jeffrey Hall, Charles E. Porter, Preston Stahly Jr. and Karen P. Thomas. The Academy-Institute, which originated in 1898 and merged in 1976, is designed to encourage artists and their work. It is patterned after the French Academy.
At the grants and induction ceremony of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters yesterday afternoon, the annual award for distinguished service to the arts was presented to Alfred A. Knopf by John Hersey, the novelist and reporter who is chancellor of the academy. Mr. Knopf was cited for bringing American readers ''innovative works in contemporary foreign literature'' and also for ''a consistently high quality of American works.'' Mr. Hersey has been published by Knopf for many years. During the ceremonial at the Academy-Institute's headquarters at 633 West 155th Street, on Audubon Terrace, William Schuman, composer and arts administrator, and Francis Steegmuller, biographer, novelist and translator, received gold medals in music and biography.
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U.S. AND MOROCCO REPORTED NEAR ACCORD
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WASHINGTON, May 19— The United States and Morocco are close to an agreement that would allow American troops and planes to use a Moroccan air base in case of a crisis in the Middle East, according to senior Administration officials. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. said after a White House meeting today between President Reagan and King Hassan II of Morocco that he hoped the accord would be completed this week. Mr. Haig discussed the use of Moroccan bases by United States forces when he was in Morocco in February. King Hassan, who is on a state visit to Washington, raised in turn the issue of United States economic and military aid to Morocco, according to another Administration official, who asked not to be identified. Morocco is fighting in the neighboring Western Sahara against rebels of the Polisario independence movement. Officials did not disclose what King Hassan was told about the prospects for increased United States military aid. The King's visit comes within a week of a vote by the House Foreign Affairs Committee to cut in half the Administration's request for $100 million in military assistance for Morocco in the 1983 fiscal year. Training of Moroccans Curbed The committee also moved to prohibit United States military personnel from operating in Western Sahara, and ruled out American military training of Moroccans for what the committee called ''offensive counterinsurgency'' in the disputed territory. ''The message,'' Representative Howard Wolpe, Democrat of Michigan and chairman of the Africa subcommittee, said then, ''is that we are not going to let King Hassan's war in the Spanish Sahara become an American war.'' King Hassan will be in Washington until Friday. During his visit he is scheduled to meet again with Secretary Haig as well as with Secretary of Defense Caspar W. Weinberger and Congressional leaders. Today he had a 45-minute discussion with President Reagan, followed by what the White House described as a ''working lunch.''This afternoon the President and the King went horseback riding near Hume, Va., at Fairfield Farm, the home of J. Willard Marriott. The King's visit has coincided with a flurry of reports on Morocco and the fighting in the Sahara. On Tuesday Amnesty International published a study on human and civil rights in the kingdom, which Hassan has ruled since 1961. The report charged Moroccan authorities with holding political prisoners incommunicado and torturing many of them. Negotiated Settlement Urged Today the Heritage Foundation, a research organization that is regarded as conservative, issued a report by its expert on Africa, Ian Butterfield, urging the Administration not to encourage King Hassan's Saharan war but to press instead for a negotiated settlement. The foundation report said that if the fighting were prolonged - at a cost that could reach a billion dollars a year -the strain might bring down the Moroccan Government. Last November, Secretary Haig, explaining to the House Foreign Affairs Committee why the United States should aid Morocco, said that advanced Soviet weapons, introduced through Libya to Polisario fighters, had changed the nature of the desert war. Later that month the Polisario's foreign minister, Hakim Ibrahim, said in New York that only the United States could stop the arms race in the Western Sahara, which was abandoned by Spain in 1976 and subsequently claimed by Morocco and Mauritania. In 1979 Mauritania gave up its part of the area. In February the Organization of African Unity recommended that Morocco open talks with the Polisario. Morocco rejected the suggestion. Relations between the United States and Morocco have been generally good during Hassan's reign. Morocco did not support the Camp David accords, however, and has had to deal carefully with Arab nations. A senior Administration official told reporters today that in an accord on use of bases, Morocco would have a veto over the transit of United States forces if action by the United States was directed against an Arab nation friendly to Morocco. Illustrations: photo of President Reagan and King Hassan II (page A1)
The United States and Morocco are close to an agreement that would allow American troops and planes to use a Moroccan air base in case of a crisis in the Middle East, according to senior Administration officials. Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr. said after a White House meeting today between President Reagan and King Hassan II of Morocco that he hoped the accord would be completed this week. Mr. Haig discussed the use of Moroccan bases by United States forces when he was in Morocco in February. King Hassan, who is on a state visit to Washington, raised in turn the issue of United States economic and military aid to Morocco, according to another Administration official, who asked not to be identified. Morocco is fighting in the neighboring Western Sahara against rebels of the Polisario independence movement.
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When you work for yourself, can you take time off?
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FORTUNE — Not many job categories are growing in today’s economy, but here’s one that is: the number of workers calling themselves “free agents.” According to temp staffing agency Kelly Services, more than four in 10 workers call themselves “free agents,” feeling unattached, long term, to any employer. This is up from 26% in 2008. People flit between organizations and — often — spend significant time working for themselves. There are many upsides to calling yourself boss. The downside? Every year, around the holidays, entrepreneurs learn (and relearn, as the case may be) that it’s tough to take even a week or two off, let alone a longer absence, like a maternity leave or sabbatical. While corporations dangle paid vacation as a perk, as James Sutton, a self-employed psychologist in Pleasanton, Texas puts it, “the self-employed person pays for their ‘fun’ twice: the cost of the time off, and the revenue lost from not working.” It’s tempting to just keep grinding away. But that’s counter-productive. Sutton claims that “some of my best ideas and marketing approaches came when my mind was refreshed and ‘idle,’” and many other free agents report the same thing. Here are a few strategies for taking time off from business owners who’ve done it: Figure out your 2012 travel plans by the end of 2011. Knowing your vacation times at least a few months in advance lets you build that lack of availability into your client proposals and plan your pipeline accordingly. Says Tim Parkin, president of Parkin Web Development in Orlando, Florida, “last minute trips make it difficult to adequately prepare and give notice to your clients. It’s unfair to both parties.” Knowing your schedule ahead of time also lets you plan for some long days before and after, and arrange employee schedules with that in mind. Parkin notes that clients who learn of your vacation plans “might have immediate requests (‘Can you do XYZ before you leave?’), which is why more notice is better.” If you run a retail business, forget about starting Christmas vacation before Christmas. Mark Aselstine, who co-owns a wine club called Uncorked Ventures with his brother-in-law, notes that “50% of our sales typically occur between Thanksgiving and Christmas Day.” 2010 was their first in business, “and we didn’t have a real plan and ended up, frankly, not doing a good job seeing family, or getting customer orders delivered in a timely manner.” This year, the rest of the family will start Christmas without them, and Aselstine and his brother-in-law will take off on the night of the 23rd. At that point, it’s too late to get wine delivered before the 25th, and with January being a slow month for wine, they won’t have to hurry back. Meghan Ely, owner of OFD Consulting, a Virginia-based wedding marketing firm, took an eight-day trip to Ireland last September with her husband. “Prior to leaving, I trained one of my staff members essentially how to ‘be me,’” she says, answering emails, taking the first few steps with prospects and the like. Don’t have staff? Doctors cover each other’s shifts for vacations, and if you have a colleague you admire and trust, you could try referring work over there during your time off — particularly if you plan to take a longer leave. You could also ask a trusted friend or family member to check your email and voice mail and call your hotel if anything disastrous happens. Consider shorter, more frequent breaks. Gaurav Sharma, who now runs the startup RightBuy.com, used to run a web consulting company. “I took a week off last year and even though I planned it well, a few clients were frustrated,” he says, and did not become repeat customers. Now he sticks to long weekends. Others squeeze in a week by thinking outside the usual calendar categories. Tim Pacileo, owner of TheBoardRoomAdvisors, a marketing firm, often takes his vacation from, say, Wednesday to Wednesday. If clients think on a weekly cycle, this allows you to never actually skip a week. “It’s easier on my customers and doesn’t affect my income stream as much,” he says. Schedule short “work breaks” on your vacation. Brad Friedman, an attorney who now works in social media marketing, says that “My type-A personality wouldn’t possibly let me completely shut down for an entire week.” So what he does is “set a schedule before I leave town. That schedule provides me with some time every day, or every other day, to check email and phone messages. I try to limit this ‘work time’ to no more than an hour a day. Frankly, this tip helps me relax on the vacation much more than if I would try to totally cut myself off from work for a whole week.” But even keeping all this in mind, happy business owners say that you sometimes just have to go for it. Taking time off is a risk, but so is running a business in general. Paige Arnof-Fenn, founder of the consulting and marketing firm Mavens and Moguls, took a month off for her 40th birthday, staying in a rustic farmhouse overseas that had no Internet access or cell phone reception. She told everyone months ahead of time, and then just went. She enjoyed the experience so much that she and her husband will be taking another month off to go to Australia and New Zealand in 2012. “Not a milestone birthday for either of us but just a way to celebrate our lives,” she says. She and her husband have lost several relatives in the past few years, and the lesson they are drawing from it is to “not … wait for an excuse to take time off” — even if it takes some effort to scale back up when you return.
It’s no simple task, but here are a few strategies from business owners who’ve managed to do it.
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Volkswagen chief Martin Winterkorn hints at restructuring
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You may have already read that Volkswagen AG plans to proceed with the manufacture of a new Lamborghini Urus SUV by 2018. For fans of exotic cars, that seemed to be the big news. But lost in all of the hullabaloo was a far bigger story: a proposed restructuring of the No. 2 global automaker. VW’s chief executive officer, Martin Winterkorn, 67, has promised to deliver that, only weeks after a showdown with the company’s chairman, Ferdinand Piech. Piech, 78, a major VW vlkpy shareholder via a family trust that controls a majority of the shares, resigned from the automaker’s board on April 25. According to the German magazine Automobilwoche, in a meeting earlier this month, Winterkorn told VW’s top executives that big changes are coming. “We are preparing the company for the coming 10, 20 years,” Winterkorn is quoted as saying in Automotive News, a sister publication of the German magazine. The meeting took place in Wolfsburg, Germany, with 4,000 other VW managers and executives watching on video. “It is time to further develop our management model and rearrange structures,” he said. “We must become faster, more efficient and more agile.” As Piech’s protégé for at least two decades, Winterkorn supervised the execution of his boss’s strategic vision, which included the acquisition of brands such as Lamborghini, Bentley and Bugatti. By developing a few basic vehicle architectures, relying on common parts and creating similar models under different brands, VW has scrambled to the front ranks of the world’s top-selling automakers, nipping at the heels of No. 1 Toyota Motor Corp toyof . With Piech out, will Winterkorn tweak the former’s ideas or advance a new vision of his own? Might a new vision from Winterkorn refine or alter the process for creating new vehicle models, the lifeblood of VW and every global automaker? Perhaps he might conclude that niche brands like Lamborghini are a distraction. The Lamborghini Urus, which will sell in very low volume, only is feasible to manufacture because the model shares mechanical underpinning with other SUVs from VW: Porsche Cayenne, Audi Q7, VW Touareg SUVs and the Bentley Bentayga – an SUV model still under development. Meantime, VW’s main brand – VW – is underperforming from a profit standpoint. In the U.S., VW is “punching far below its weight,” a phrase Winterkorn is said to have used in his speech to top management. Specifically, the automaker has lagged behind with the development of SUV and crossover models for American consumers. But earlier this year, the company said it will offer up to five new SUVs and crossovers to U.S. car buyers within the next few years. Whether Urus connects with willing buyers three years from now is of little moment to VW’s future. The outcome of Winterkorn’s deliberations over the next couple of months, by contrast, may set a new course for the automaker.
This week's announcement of the new Lamborghini SUV was the sideshow. The real news was in CEO Martin Winterkorn's remarks to VW executives.
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Former EA exec Bing Gordon explains why VR isn't a slam dunk
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With companies like Facebook, Sony, Samsung, Valve, and HTC investing billions in virtual reality, former Electronics Arts executive Bing Gordon sees content creators facing an “innovator’s dilemma” at this early stage of VR technology. “There’s a conundrum now for people who can make money doing the current gaming content on mobile or on console,” Gordon says. “How can they afford to do VR? And at some point if it works, you can’t afford not to have done it. The companies that are really profitable right now in the mobile games space are making so much money that it’s hard to imagine taking 50 people and doing a science project in VR instead of making another $100 million this year.” But the risk of missing out on VR is considerable, as Digi-Capital projects virtual reality will generate over $30 billion by 2020. “VR looks like a new step-function generational change in player technology that could create this early couple of years for creating brands and franchises,” Bing says. “In my experience over the last 30 years, it’s always a good bet to try to time Moore’s Law with the first two years of new technology in games because that’s the cheapest time to introduce and create lasting new franchises and brands.” Gordon has a long view of the gaming industry, as he spent 26 years at game publisher and developer Electronic Arts EA , with ten years as chief creative officer. Currently, Gordon is general partner and chief product officer for venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers. Gordon has seen many of the existing game publishers take a wait-and-see approach, which is one reason companies like Electronic Arts, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment TWX , Activision, and Ubisoft have yet to show any VR content. “The companies who are most leaning into VR are probably advertisers and GoPro fans,” Bing says. “So it might be that music videos and brands and 13-year-olds who like to kill themselves with tricks on a bike is where the leading edge street cred of VR will be. Then there’s another company, Magic Leap, that’s mysterious and is doing a kind of manufactured reality with a different approach to VR. And it may be that Magic Leap and Microsoft MSFT —with its augmented reality plus virtual reality HoloLens—turns out to be a more scientifically valid approach. Or it might turn out to be like BetaMax versus VHS and audience traction matters. There are a lot of moving parts, but the consumers are extremely excited about the concept. VR is coming back strong, and that’s partly technical and partly the caliber of the people working on it can afford to be better.” Gordon believes the financial risk is that VR may be the highest cost ever per minute of making interactive entertainment because it’s a new and developing market and developers’ efficiency is about half the speed and the cost of creating content is twice as expensive. And given it might be a small, slowly developing market; the reward, or profits, may not be realized for quite some time. That’s where it helps to have companies like Facebook, Sony, Samsung, HTC, and Valve fully vested in pushing things forward, both on the platform side, as well as on the development side. Gordon admits things have come a long way since the last VR attempt in the ‘90s, which never took off. He believes that the sheer amount of investment and creative energy that is being placed in VR today will result in a new generation of developers ultimately getting it right, eventually.
Companies focused on mobile games—which can currently make $100 million—aren't investing resources in VR, even though they risk missing out if VR takes off.
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Caitlyn Jenner Is Finally 'Who She Always Felt She Should Be'
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Caitlyn Jenner, formerly known as Bruce Jenner, on the cover of PEOPLE 06/03/2015 AT 08:00 AM EDT When the time came for was stunned – not by the news, which she had known for some time, but by "Kim, especially, was blown away by how good [she] looked in the magazine," a source close to the reality TV star tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story. The source adds that Kim and her husband, , offered their congratulations to Jenner on Monday. "They're long past the talk about being brave or courageous; that's already been discussed," says the source. "It was like, 'What awesome photos!' " Now that the photos have , those closest to Jenner, 65, say she has never been happier. "She finally is who she's always felt she should be her whole life," says a Jenner family insider, adding, "She has never been closer to her family."
"She has never been closer to her family," a Jenner source tells PEOPLE in this week's cover story
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http://www.bbc.com/capital/sponsored/story/20150527-going-the-distance
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Going the distance
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Amy Rogerson, 32, moved from England to Libya to be with her partner of one year. Two weeks after the couple first started their relationship her new boyfriend had to fly back to Libya for work. "We'd said goodbye but he called me from the airport and we talked it over. Even after two weeks we knew that we wanted to commit, or at least commit to trying, so we decided to stay in touch." Even that proved a challenge, though. "The internet connection wasn't good enough for Skype," recalled Rogerson, "and when [Libya's leader] Colonel Gaddafi was in town, it was cut entirely.” After a year of long distance, and with her partner still in Libya, Rogerson left her job as an administrator and made the move to be with him. "We realised we needed an end in sight," she explained. However, five years, one wedding, and four countries later, the couple again found themselves in the same situation. Potential complications during Rogerson's pregnancy forced her to leave her home and her husband—then in Tanzania—and return to the UK for six months. "The period leading up to the birth was hard—and so sad for my partner," she remembered. "Previously, I'd been the one waiting, but now I had the baby to occupy me.” For perhaps the two most important moments of their relationship the pair faced the same situation, but with vastly different experiences. "The first time, we became very close very quickly," she agreed, "and it turned out to be right for us. It gave us a foundation. It also meant that the second time we did long-distance, which was necessary and far harder, we knew it wouldn't affect our marriage. But whereas the first time helped, although the second didn't hurt us, it was horrible. I felt a lot of anger. Afterwards, we said we'd never do it again." Not every long distance relationship ends well, however. For serial expats, moving around means relationships will often boil down to one big stick-or-twist moment. Certainly, for French humanitarian worker Elise Brouard, 29, who has lived in six different countries, that decision is always the toughest to make. "You can't treat long-distance like it's a normal relationship," Brouard explained. "It's not, you miss out on so many things. Yes, you text and talk daily on Skype, but it's not the same; that person isn't really in the room with you. It's so much harder." But it shouldn't stop you from trying, she believes. Her last long distant relationship began while living in Pakistan. After a year, her partner was offered a position in North Africa and took it. Both were independent and had been in the same situation before, so they knew the pitfalls of long-distance. "We'd talked a lot beforehand about how we'd communicate, and how often. If we were late, we'd text to reschedule for another day; neither of us wanted to be stuck at home waiting for the other to call. It was never an obligation that way." A forgiving schedule meant they were able to plan regular holidays abroad around their reunions, so instead of trying to recreate their old domestic life together, they made new experiences in different countries. "Getting to travel was great for us," explained Brouard. "If you only have 10 days to be with someone, it just makes the experience so much more intense. You don't want to miss a second of it because it feels so good to finally be in the same place." Before they left, they would always arrange the next meet-up. But the hardest part, recalled Brouard, was the uncertainty. Both were committed to their work, with neither able to predict when they'd next live in the same country. "In the end, the distance killed it," she admitted. "The silver lining is I got the career I wanted; it's just that it's such a difficult decision to make." Some couples don't have a choice. British-New Zealand pair Steve Tizzard, 39, and Jackleen Ryder, 32, met while living in Japan and were together two-and-a-half years before work and visa commitments enforced the first in a trilogy of long-distance stints. "Each time, you just miss being together," recalled Ryder. "You're surrounded by people and you still feel lonely. But it does encourage you do things: I started going to the gym for the first time ever; I even took up yoga and traditional Japanese dance. I think it's a vanity thing; you don't want to meet up and have him think: what happened?” For Tizzard, it had a similar effect. "My Japanese skills weren't so good, usually Jackleen would interpret for me," he said. "But without her, I felt a bit isolated among our Japanese friends, so I studied more and it made me less afraid of making a fool of myself in another language. Usually, we're a bad influence on each other, but when you're by yourself, you'd rather be busy." Perhaps the biggest change they found was the amount they now communicated. "When you're together every day," explained Tizzard, "you can be sat next to each other and still be in a different world because you're on your phone or watching TV. With long-distance, all of a sudden you're having these intense conversations. I think it brings you closer." Midway through a year-long stint spent apart (she in Japan; he in the UK), the pair got engaged while on holiday in Osaka, the city where they first met. Certainly, both agree that long-distance showed them an alternative life that neither wanted. "I think being apart makes it less likely that you'll take your partner for granted," said Ryder. "It's like a test break-up; you know what it's like to be without them and it's not pretty. Sometimes there's a bit of doubt because Skype and email isn't the same as being there and can make you over-think things. But for me, I sort of already had it in my mind: this is the person I wanted to be with." Living abroad and your personal economy Living abroad has its complexities. Your finances shouldn't be one of them. At HSBC Expat, we see your personal economy as something that's unique to you and constantly changing. Click here to find out how we could help you. Other stories in The World is my Oyster series: The only expat in the city (Thinkstock) The only expat in the city (Thinkstock) Bright, young and living abroad Why more young people are being lured by a life abroad...(Thinkstock) Why more young people are being lured by a life abroad...(Thinkstock) What would life be like in another country? Play the game to find out... What would life be like in another country? Play the game to find out... The highs and lows of life abroad Time to let go? 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Does long distance make or break relationships?
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