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...YEAR, THE U.S. POSTAL SERVICE SEEMED TO have left behind its most disturbing problem: a decade-long string of killings (31 in all) by employees. The respite ended Thursday. In Dearborn, Michigan, Larry Jasion, upset at losing a promotion to a woman, killed one co-worker and wounded two others before killing himself. Later that day in Dana Point, California, Mark Richard Hilbun returned to the post office from which he had been fired and killed a letter carrier and wounded a clerk. He was arrested at a bar, about 20 miles north, early Saturday morning. Police said Hilbun...
...FIRST TIME SINCE SUFFERING COMBINED losses of $13 billion over the past three years, the Big Three U.S. auto manufacturers have each begun to show signs of a rebound. Following a dazzling string of showroom hits that increased sales this year by 25%, Chrysler reported first-quarter earnings of $530 million. Ford's gains have been steadier, but it still managed to double analysts' predictions with net earnings of $572 million. Even General Motors turned a financial corner with quarterly profits of $513 million. Still, all three companies tempered their reports with downbeat expressions of caution. Ford's chairman, Harold...
...York City-based Global Forum and attended by such political and spiritual luminaries as former U.N. Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar and Mother Teresa. Now that he is a full-time Green, Gorbachev may have a lot to atone for. The Soviet Union committed a long string of environmental outrages during his watch, including the world's worst nuclear accident at Chernobyl...
...brother Kenneth, who heads the company's design-and-construction subsidiary; ordering an executive to fly in for a meeting and then leaving him stranded as Wynn flies off to Los Angeles for a haircut; offering paternal words of forgiveness to a transgressing employee and, with a string of expletives, ordering him fired the minute the door is closed. "He consumes everyone's dignity around him," says Lester Colodny, who designed the famous ads that featured Wynn and Sinatra. "Once on a trip I was talking to Steve about becoming a regular . employee. We stopped at McDonald...
...genius in the '20s and '30s was for making extraordinarily delicate and literally "wiry" sculptures that danced at a breath. However close you got to them, they still seemed distant in their fragility; in extreme cases, like the wonderful Tightrope, 1937, with its wire personages balancing on a string between two balks of wood, they are so fine as to be almost unphotographable. Real as the pleasures of early Calder are, however, they don't have the imaginative force of Picasso, Gonzalez -- or Smith...