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...accommodate the one-month schedule, the route of the Pacific passage was unkinked into a more or less straight line from Honolulu to Kavieng, on the northwest tip of New Ireland in the Bismarck Archipelago. Sealestial covered more than 3,500 nautical miles; ports of call included inhospitable Johnston Atoll, believed to be the site of a U.S. poison-gas depot, where even such minimum security risks as a former ambassador and the editor of the National Review were denied an overnight parking space...
...Gene Kinasewich leads the Crimson in scoring with 20 goals and 20 assists. Tim Taylor, now Yale's coach, scores 23 goals, while Captain Dave Grannis nets 10. Defenseman Dave Johnston is named to the First-Team All-American squad. Harvard loses in the second round of the ECAC Tournament to St. Lawrence, 6-5. Final record...
...physical principles. With the exception of a long- wavelength infrared sensor, the SBKKVs involve no technical breakthroughs, says John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists, and the land-based interceptors are merely upgraded, nonnuclear versions of the ABM systems developed during the 1960s. Says Democratic Senator J. Bennett Johnston of Louisiana: "The Delta 180 test demonstrated obsolete technology that is ineffective and vastly expensive...
...representatives of the Claremont Group, a New York City-based investment-banking firm, to discuss a leveraged buy-out. O'Donnell presumably was inclined to consider such a transaction, since it would probably have given him and his fellow managers a more significant ownership stake in the company. Johnston and some board members, however, thought they should have been consulted before any powwows took place with investment bankers...
...next bombshell, according to two directors, came when O'Donnell proposed firing Johnston and installing himself in the top spot. Director David Yunich, retired vice chairman of R.H. Macy, says that O'Donnell's 1 1/2- hour presentation was "incoherent." At one point, Yunich reports, O'Donnell volunteered that he had been "kicked out of" Columbia Business School and thus had a weak grasp of finance. Says Yunich: "We couldn't figure out whether this person had flipped his lid or not." O'Donnell says he was merely passing on Claremont's unsolicited buy-out proposal and had thus done...