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Svetlana promptly went along with Mrs. Wright's desires: within days she was calling Taliesin West's matriarch Mother. She also fell in love with the distinguished-looking, 6-ft. 4-in. Peters, then 57. Soon Svetlana was pressing for an early wedding, and less than three weeks after her...
The biggest obstacle to tax reform is that Congress may not want to take on ( entrenched special interests unless the plan is related to the more pressing problem: those looming deficits. So far, Reagan has remained adamantly committed to a revenue-neutral plan. He made it clear at his press...
The other Miami players, especially the most grizzled veterans, refer to Marino in fond terms. Twelve-year Guard Ed Newman talks of protecting "the mother lode 4 yds. behind me." For bench-pressing 510 lbs. and conquering thyroid cancer, Newman is acknowledged as the strongest person on the team, possibly...
The Iraqi strikes that preceded the Iranian aerial campaign were apparently carried out by French-built Mirage F1 fighter-bombers equipped to fire Exocet missiles. Iraq took delivery of 28 such F1 models last summer, all specially modified to use the standoff antiship missile that first made its mark during...
For many executives, the most pressing concern in 1984 was how to keep their companies from being swallowed by takeovers. To escape a bid by T. Boone Pickens Jr., the Texas oilman, Gulf sold itself to Standard Oil of California for $13.2 billion in history's biggest merger. Late in...