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...MAKING OF THE AFRICAN QUEEN...
...announcing plans to acquire a 75% stake (price: more than $30 million) in Aston Martin Lagonda, the manufacturer of hand-assembled sports cars that carry an average price tag of $130,000. While the British car company has sputtered financially, its products have long enjoyed a sterling reputation. Queen Elizabeth II gave an Aston Martin to Prince Charles for his 21st birthday, and James Bond has driven the cars in the films Goldfinger and The Living Daylights...
Dole put her husband's career ahead of her own once before, when she resigned as a member of the Federal Trade Commission to help his ill-fated 1980 presidential campaign. Until then the former Duke University student- council president and campus Queen of the May from Salisbury, N.C., had concentrated single-mindedly on her work. She started in politics as a "greeter" on Lyndon Johnson's 1960 vice-presidential whistle-stop tour, where she became enamored of Washington. She eventually started working there, quickly racking up high-ranking posts in Administrations of both parties. Her soft, unthreatening style...
...most lavish extravaganza ever held by a single computer manufacturer, and not even all the hotels in the Hub could accommodate the 50,000 executives, financial analysts and journalists from 25 countries who are expected to attend the $25 million, eleven-day affair. To house the overflow crowd, the Queen Elizabeth 2 and the Star/Ship Oceanic luxury liners were docked alongside the spacious World Trade Center on Boston Harbor, where DEC put up a raft of electronic exhibits and unveiled a new line of machines in the midsize or "minicomputer" class...
...members of the royal house had plotted to assassinate their future King. The weapon of choice, according to Mfanasibili, was a witch doctor, who was sent to England to hunt down the prince and poison him. As a result of Mfanasibili's charges, several princes loyal to the ousted Queen regent were detained without trial, as were a handful of ranking Swazi officials, including police and army chiefs...