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Enter Rep. George Keverian '53 (D-Everett), lifetime politician and an unlikely though erstwhile challenger to the throne. For 17 years, Keverian had been the most loyal subject in the realm, one of McGee's personal favorites who was eventually rewarded with the title of Majority Leader. Whenever McGee had a tough floor fight on his hands, he let Keverian do the dirty work, and the quick-witted popular legislator came through time after time. Looking ahead as heir apparent, Keverian says he made an unwritten agreement with McGee back in 1982: the longtime Speaker would retire from polities...
...wrong bus. The recantation came too late. Presumably in response to the bus bombing, Israeli missile boats shelled Arafat's redoubt at the northern Lebanese port city of Tripoli, from which the P.L.O. chairman was trying to arrange an exit for himself and the dwindling forces still loyal...
Throughout their ordeal the genial Heineken (whose value is estimated at more than $500 million) and his loyal employee of 40 years remained surprisingly healthy. They were nonetheless kept constantly on edge. In a brief statement distributed after their release, Heineken wrote, "I always saved one slice of bread for the night, because you could never be sure that there would be bread the following morning," while Doderer wryly noted that the Chinese food he was served by the kidnapers "didn't taste as good as that of my usual Chinese place." As soon as their chains were...
Although it has long had a loyal following among soft-drink guzzlers, 98-year-old Dr Pepper (1982 sales: $516.1 million) has gradually been losing its fizz. The company's namesake Dr Pepper brand fell from 5.4% of the soft-drink market in 1981 to 5.1% last year. Moreover, the Dallas-based firm knew things might continue getting worse because it lacks the financial and marketing clout to compete effectively against the soft-drink industry's giants: Coca-Cola (1982 sales: $6.2 billion) and highly diversified PepsiCo (1982 sales: $7.5 billion). So, taking a hint from...
...Washington, D.C., one-third of the nation's 292 active Catholic bishops attended a meeting that was sponsored in part by groups advocating the ordination of women. Although the bishops remain loyal to the Pope's September directive to withdraw "all support" from those promoting the cause of female priests, they are becoming increasingly sympathetic to women's demands for justice within the church...