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EXECUTIVE TRANSACTIONS

          American Skiing Chair LES OTTEN will join the board of
     the Conservation Law Foundation, a Boston-based
     environmental group (USA TODAY, 5/26)....Former ACOG CEO
     BILLY PAYNE resigned yesterday as Vice Chair of NationsBank. 
     He will become Chair of Orcestrate.com, a new subsidiary of
     GA-based Premiere Technologies.  Payne will work with his
     son, PORTER, who has a "strategic partnership" with Premiere
     (ATLANTA CONSTITUTION, 5/26)....Kaleidoscope Sports &
     Entertainment named BARRY SCHWARTZ VP/Media Properties &
     Exec VP of Kaleidoscope Entertainment.  Schwartz was
     President of JMS Creative Media (KS&E). 

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