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...million. None of these companies, however, has fallen into financial trouble. Says an Aetna official: "Our losses will not be insignificant. But our other assets are very secure, and our foundation is very, very solid." Aetna's Nos. 4 and 5 bonds represent little more than one-tenth of 1% of its $44 billion portfolio...
...retired once, for a year, after whining her sixth Wimbledon singles championship in 1975 (she has collected 20 Wimbledon titles in all) and stepped away again momentarily in 1981. "Athletes are preconditioned to quit on top," she said before the match that would have brought her to a tenth singles final, "but then I realized that I didn't care what the public thought or anyone thought-I still wanted to play tennis. And I'm going to make every moment count now. It's near...
Cunningham may already have offered some clues as to what she is likely to say. In a booklet that classmates at Wellesley compiled for their tenth reunion, she inveighed against prejudice toward women in American business. Said she: "It is the exceptions throughout history-in business, in medicine, in politics-that have made the breakthroughs and moved us forward-not by inches but by leaps." Yes, but fold your golden parachute carefully...
...Solidarity leaders were nowhere to be seen, then supporters were legion. More than one million people, the largest crowd that had assembled anywhere in Poland since the Pope's 1979 visit, jammed Warsaw's Tenth Anniversary soccer stadium for an open-air Mass on the second day of the Pope's visit. Some of them had arrived more than 24 hours early in order to greet the Pontiff. The crowd included delegations from Gdansk, Poznan, Radom, Lublin and other Polish cities. There were uniformed boy scouts, nurses in white tunics, peasant women in brightly colored scarves...
...tourists in its 31st year; Andrew Lloyd Webber still has three musicals running (Evita, Cats and Song and Dance), with a new show promised for the fall. Peter Ustinov has donned a peruke and a music-hall German accent to star in his own caustic comedy, Beethoven's Tenth. London's two major repertory companies are concentrating their energies on the Bard and other English classic playwrights. The Royal Shakespeare Company has mounted a characteristically bustling production of Middleton and Dekker's The Roaring Girl, a feminist comedy from 1610, starring Helen Mirren and Jonathan Hyde...