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...workday gets under way, a batch of new recruits files in to get M16s. Stratton unlocks the weapons-room door and distributes the rifles. That done, she strides over to the trainee barracks, a nearby three-story brick building. "Female on the floor! Female on the floor!" a door guard loudly yells. Stratton enters so briskly that the men have time only to stand up. "What's this?" she demands, spotting a crumpled white towel tied to the end of a bed. A senior drill sergeant explains, "It's there so we know who to call...
Meanwhile, Hunt will try and whip up a new batch of his winning recipe...
...Antal Dorati, 72. The elders of the Detroit Symphony needed someone who "could turn the orchestra around" when they picked Dorati. He has wasted no time planning several festivals, an international tour and a batch of recordings. "Detroit had not traveled much and had made no recordings in well over a decade," says the maestro. "I am the archenemy of that kind of routine." Dorati is an old-school, tremendously versatile conductor whose artistic innovations are matched by his administrative skill. "Mr. Dorati could even run General Motors," says President Robert Semple. That is the ultimate Detroit accolade...
...biggest factor in this success is that Hollywood has emerged from ten years of soul-searching, issue-oriented movies with a batch of flicks like Heaven Can Wait and National Lampoon's Animal House that are sheer fun. Paramount Chairman Barry Diller has three big hits -the result, he says, of "a decision to get into pictures that made people feel good...
Finally, the businessman should recognize virtues in remaining fairly small. "If you make a certain-sized batch of a product," Heitz contends, "it usually turns out much better than if you make three or four times that much." He intends to level out his own production when it reaches 40,000 cases annually, up from about 35,000 this year...