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...supplied a counterpoint to Brett, White is the flip side of airborne Cardinals Shortstop Ozzie Smith, except White's style is to avoid notice, to be so good that nobody sees he is there, and incidentally to get in front of the ball. His relay to Brett at third base in the first game to disabuse Willie McGee of a triple approximated poetry...
DIED. Jean Riboud, 65, French head for 20 years of Schlumberger Ltd., the huge (1984 revenues: $6.4 billion) international petroleum-services company, which he expanded from a narrow base in oil-well testing into a conglomerate with holdings in electronic instruments, semiconductors and computer-aided design systems, and forged into what was widely regarded as one of the world's best-managed firms; of cancer; in Paris...
...profiling key Soviet participants, including a lengthy one of Gorbachev in public appearances. Although Soviet Defector Arkady Shevchenko was invited to a presidential lunch recently, one-on-one sit-downs between Reagan and pedagogic experts have largely been avoided. Says one aide: "We wanted him to have a solid base of information before we bring in outsiders...
...this for 25 years," says ex-Aide Michael Deaver, who is helping with summit public relations. One prepper goes so far as to label Reagan's elaborately prepared briefing materials as mere "refresher reading." Still, sighs one Sovietologist, "let's face it. He's starting from such a low base that any knowledge would be an improvement." Reagan is so supremely confident of his ability to persuade the Soviets of the virtues of the American way that he is not troubling himself to cram for the summit. His aides know, however, that he will need a lot more than charm...
After weeks of feverish anticipation and frenzied publicity, the world's most glamorous and relentlessly observed twosome arrived in the capital of what was once their kingdom's richest possession. By the time they stepped off their plane on Saturday morning at Andrews Air Force Base, all the RSVPs had been sent out, thank you, and the A list firmly separated from the B. Washington had settled in to gawk and gossip about the royal heroic couplet...