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...ambassadors in Buenos Aires and London, the failure would not have been so damaging to U.S. prestige. "Al had to do it himself, by himself," notes one of his advisers. "He's got this thing about coming to the rescue. Maybe it's the Kissinger legacy, the Lone Ranger thing. But I think it's something deeper...
...Meet the Press set, which looks like a courtroom lighted by Wurlitzer, the guest faces four questioners arrayed behind a judge's bench. That four on one, according to Moderator Bill Monroe, gives the lone guest the sympathy vote, but Kirkpatrick is not one to ask for sympathy. A former college professor, she has the manner of someone used to feeling intellectually superior to those she talks to, and probably must nudge herself not to talk that way to fellow diplomats or journalists...
...same cali ber: Michael, an English lad (Maxwell Caulfield), falls in love with Stephanie (Michelle Pfeiffer), leader of the T-Birds' hangers-on, the Pink Ladies. Her heart, however, does wheelies for him only when he dresses up as a mysteriously masked motorcyclist, a sort of Lone Ranger on a hawg. He does not reveal his true identity to her until the concluding production number, although the audience is in on the secret all along. Pfeiffer is pretty and has a cer tain spirit about her, but the vacant Caulfield is surely the least promising newcomer since Pia Zadora...
...McDonough were the only proponents of the idea on the committee. "I wanted the Faculty to recognize that you couldn't just write minority students out, and that a constitution that didn't write them in did in fact write them out," she remembers. "But one or two lone white voices trying to explain the effects of institutional racism to a group of skeptical students and Faculty was just not enough...
...decision by California's three-member board of prison terms was harsh but expected. Sirhan Sirhan, 38, the lone killer of Senator Robert F. Kennedy in 1968, had earlier been scheduled for parole on Sept. 1, 1984. But public outrage prompted an appeal by the Los Angeles district attorney's office, and after a rehearing at Soledad Prison, the board last week took back the parole date. Sirhan will come up for a new review in November...