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...uncanny zest for the provocative and an infallible instinct never to underestimate the popular appetite for intimate confessions, Hite is about to hit the bookstands and blitz the talk-show circuits with an elaborate (922 pages) report on American women and their relationships, her third major study in eleven years...
...eleven years old, he began playing on school teams, and played on a Boys' Club Celtic team throughout high school. In the spring of 1986, he practiced and played seven games with a professional team, the Glasgow Celtics. His affiliation with the Scottish team led to his seven-game ineligibility during his freshman year with the Crimson...
...proliferation of Yellow Pages has transformed a quiet business that had changed little since the New Haven (Conn.) District Telephone Co. published the first such directory in 1878: a one-page roster of eleven residences and 39 doctors, factories and other commercial listings. Since neither the name Yellow Pages nor the walking-fingers symbol is a protected trademark (they passed into generic use long before AT&T's divestiture), anyone can employ them. Many consumers no longer know whose directories they are using. Southern Bell calls its 242 editions the "Real Yellow Pages," while other publishers have adopted distinctive names...
...January 1984 Colino took office as the first American director general of Intelsat, which was established in 1964 to manage and coordinate global satellite communications among its original eleven member nations. Today Intelsat boasts 114 affiliated countries and owns 13 communications satellites, which handle a billion telephone calls a year. It also provides transmission facilities to television networks for such events as the 1984 Olympic Games and last year's Tokyo economic summit. Intelsat's 1986 revenues: $488 million...
...that possibility seemed more remote last week after President Kenneth Kaunda of Zambia nominated M'Bow for a new term. Aides to the director-general now claim that he never promised not to accept a draft, and would serve again if elected. Though there are eleven other nominees for the job, Kaunda's endorsement carries weight: he is chairman of the Organization of African Unity, which includes 62 of UNESCO's 158 member states. The election will take place in November. Among the perks that M'Bow may be reluctant to give up: a $160,000 salary and a rent...