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...network ratings leader, is now in a tense three-way race, and the low-rated Morning News is still a major trouble spot (it will be transmuted in January into a pair of 90-minute broadcasts, one of them produced by the entertainment division and coanchored by Actress Mariette Hartley). Meanwhile, the news division, which has been forced to eliminate 215 jobs in the past 14 months, will have to keep its belt tightened. But Stringer says no more layoffs are planned, and for now at least, he seems to have boosted spirits. When his appointment was announced, staffers were...
...permanent political symbol: "She has been used to depict the troubles of Presidents Ford, Carter, and Reagan. In British cartoons both the ship and the iceberg have represented Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher." The Titanic is also a lure for trivia buffs: "Who led the ship's band? (Wallace Hartley.) Which smokestack was the dummy? (The fourth.)" And the tragedy furnishes social historians with a cutaway of Edwardian strata: "Should normal Class Precedence prevail," the crew wondered, "or the rule of 'Women and children first'?" Last year the Titanic's wreckage was spotted on the Atlantic floor, and speculation began anew...
...surprised few oil-industry watchers that Hartley, a man with a reputation for being as blunt and hard driving as a drilling rig, resisted with deep anger and tenacity T. Boone Pickens' attempt to take over his company. Last April, when the two men met in a Washington corridor while waiting to testify about takeovers before the House Ways and Means Committee, Hartley refused to shake his adversary's hand. This was no sporting contest; this...
During the 13-week-long battle, Hartley directed or approved every strategic move. He met daily at company headquarters in Los Angeles with his staff, lawyers and investment bankers in a 15- by 20-ft. windowless room furnished with a metal table and chairs and several chalkboards. "We would work for six to 15 hours at a time. Then Hartley would pop in and demand to know what we'd come up with," said one participant. After his victory, Hartley could scarcely conceal his glee: "This thing is going to keep me busy on the lecture circuit for years...
...Hartley suffered a heart attack, but he shows no signs of slowing down or thinking about retirement. In fact, shortly after his illness, he bought a 51-ft. yacht, which he named...