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Born in the French resort town of Biarritz, the son of a chief of the local gas and electric company, Bergerac studied economics and political science at the Sorbonne and Cambridge. He came to the U.S. at 21, earned an M.B.A. from U.C.L.A., and for one six-month period worked as a ranch hand roping horses in Oregon. He joined Cannon Electric Co. of Los Angeles as a salesman, and in three years worked up to international vice president. Meanwhile, he became a U.S. citizen and married Norma Langstaff, a Los Angeles abstract painter who has had several art shows...
...that everyone dreams of living on a Pacific island, we spent years looking for one to section into pieces of paradise," explains Sportsman-Publisher Malcolm Forbes, 59. The one he found was 3,000-acre Laucala. But that was in 1972, and since then Forbes has given up his resort idea. Last week, all decked out in lei and tropical duds, he teamed up with Fijian Prime Minister Ratu Sir Kamisese Mara to cut ribbons on some new projects that have to do with raising coconuts and corn and promoting sport fishing...
...This is not a normal situation but rather a last resort, pending some structural changes in the prison," Parnell said, adding a corrections official would announce the changes at the end of the week...
...industries. "Our industry must manufacture goods that others are not yet capable of marketing and will not be able to produce in the next ten years," says Chancellor Helmut Schmidt. The French hold the same view. "To get out of this bind," explains Industry Minister André Giraud, "we must resort to innovation, manufacturing goods that others don't produce or don't produce as well...
...change. Last week Pan American's Intercontinental Hotels subsidiary signed a preliminary pact with the Chinese to build six or seven hotels, each with 500 to 1,000 rooms. At least one hotel will be in Peking; others may rise in Shanghai, Canton, and perhaps in the lakeside resort town of Hangchow and the country's ancient capital of Sian...