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...vast food-processing concern (Nestlé-Carnation) and one of the mightiest high-technology combinations (Allied-Signal). Last week even brought a proposed sports marriage between the New Jersey Generals and the Houston Gamblers of the U.S. Football League. The number of megadeals this year could wind up challenging the pace of 1984, when companies made 2,543 acquisitions worth a record $122.2 billion...
...field hockey game on the L.S.U. campus produces a quick and no doubt prejudiced rejection of the sport: clotted misery, so constipated by defense, whistle blowing and too many players that a successful scoring drive seems accidental. A stroll to the archery field, where Rick McKinney and Darrell Pace, the two best archers in the world, are shooting at the same target 50 meters away. After 1 ˝ days of drawing and letting fly, Pace is ahead, 717 to 712. In two more days, McKinney manages to pull three points nearer, but Pace wins...
...burners, rolling faster and faster with no apparent strain. As the field stretched out in the last lap, he was simply flying, moving toward the front as Coe, arms pumping, tried to hang on. Coming out of the final turn, Cram, who commented later that he thought the pace a bit slow, lifted his effort still higher, beyond the reach of the mere mortals on the track. With the overflow crowd of 19,231 booming rhythmic hurrahs, Cram was suddenly out front with a widening lead as Coe and the others broke and fell back. Even before reaching the tape...
West 57th, named for the Manhattan street where CBS News is based, establishes its pace in the briskly edited montage that opens each show. Phone ringing in a CBS control booth. Someone shouting something about a tape not rolling. Lots of quick camera cuts showing hubbub in the booth spliced with shots from the week's stories. The thumping music swells into a jazzy roar as Correspondent Jane Wallace dashes up a flight of stairs. The other three correspondents (Bob Sirott, Meredith Vieira, John Ferrugia) are presented in quick succession, getting out of chairs and talking on phones...
...week were so volubly leaking the news of their thinking in the face of overseas criticism, suggests that some sort of change may really be coming to South Africa at last. What cannot yet be divined is precisely what sort of change is on the way, or at what pace . --By William E. Smith. Reported by Peter Hawthorne and Bruce W. Nelan/Johannesburg