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Most executives would think at least twice before agreeing to take over the management of a multinational food company plagued by heavy losses, bitter internal feuds and a sensational international bribery scandal. When Wallace W. Booth was first offered the chief executive's job at United Brands Co. two months ago, he promptly declined. Booth did not feel that his experience suited him for running a food company. During 20 years with Ford Motor Co., he played a major role in setting up the company's financial control system, became a director and eventually headed Ford...
Connors grew up in East St. Louis and Belleville, Ill., the son of a toll booth manager on what is now called the Martin Luther King bridge, which spans the Mississippi River at St. Louis. James Connors Sr., though, was never the main influence in Jimmy's life, and the two appear to have an uneasy relationship. It was Jimmy's mother, a tournament player and teaching pro, who began tossing tennis balls at Connors when he was three. "I started him as soon as he could walk pretty well," recalls Gloria, still in her perky 40s. "Jimmy took...
...familiar Red Line to Park Street. The information booth dispenses maps that have the Orange Line going pretty much where it's always gone. What's the story? Well, if you ask politely they'll reach under the deist and five you one of the new maps. Return, reassured, to the Red Line and the trip to Washington Street...
...victim of your choice. ("Did you know the CIA is investigating you?" she asked one startled Montana resident.) Ms. Editor Gloria Steinem turned taxi-dancer for one $65 song; off to the side, Washington Post Watergate Reporters Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward sold phony spy disguises. In the kissing booth, Veteran Socialite Barbara Howar demonstrated her wares to Washington Post Executive Editor Benjamin Bradlee. The occasion: the second annual Counter Gridiron dinner, held to raise money for a journalists' legal-defense fund and the hackles of Washington's venerable, mostly male Gridiron Club. While Treasury Secretary William Simon...
Contemporary Songs of loneliness and love; Mark Ammons and David Booth, guitars, David Danner, bass, and George Stetten, piano; Dunster Library...