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...unsure First Lady ordered them first to "check it out with Frank." Nancy also saw quite a lot of her rich bachelor friend Jerry Zipkin, a full-time Manhattan partygoer whom she has called "a modern-day Oscar Wilde." Says one of her former aides: "There is a little element here of Louis XIV's French court and les precieuses --the affected ladies. She had a certain liking for witty, amusing, well-dressed men who were willing to walk three paces behind and carry the purse...
...that the Soviet Foreign Minister, who is fluent in English, could not have learned in advance from the American press? Well before the talks were scheduled to begin on Monday, the White House spelled out in detail the stand that President Reagan had instructed Shultz to take. The key element: the U.S. would not even consider any slowing of its efforts to develop a Star Wars antimissile defense. Indeed, it would attempt to convince the Soviets that they should shift from offensive to defensive weapons...
...perhaps the most overlooked and pivotal element to Harvard victory this weekend is forward Arne Duncan. "Arne does all the dirty work," says Carril, "and he can do everything...
...field of venture capital. That was how he discovered a nearly bankrupt little company that was trying to start microwave phone service between Chicago and St. Louis. For $50,000, McGowan bought half of it; his shares are now worth about $50 million. "Challenging the monopoly had one irresistible element," McGowan says. "It had never been done before...
...final element in this year's pageant was a crèche, an assemblage of near life-size figures around a manger scene representing Christ's birth. The display included painted representations of Joseph and Mary, the gift-bearing Magi, two angels and assorted animals-20 pieces in all. It would have been wholly unremarkable, similar to thousands of others, except for one thing: this particular Nativity scene was reappearing in the festival after an enforced and highly controversial absence of eleven years, the hostage in a legal dispute involving the constitutional separation of church and state...