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...father of five and the grandfather of eight, Telling is as all-American as the customers he aims to please. The son of a bank cashier, he was an Eagle Scout by age twelve. In high school he was an end on the football team and a good tennis player. After graduating from Illinois Wesleyan with a bachelor's degree in business administration and economics, he joined the Navy during World War II and became a pilot, stationed in Pensacola...
Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos may not be everyone's idea of a "little Girl Scout." But that was how she described herself last week when she made an unexpected appearance before the government-appointed board of Justice Corazon Agrava to answer questions about the assassination of Opposition Leader Benigno ("Ninoy") Aquino Jr. in August 1983. Dabbing tears from her eyes, Mrs. Marcos, in a voice breaking with emotion, told how she had done everything in her power to save the life of her husband's chief political opponent. She vehemently denied reports that during a meeting with...
Uneasiness ends when he is at his best, as in Bridging, about a bereaved husband who becomes an eager assistant leader of a Girl Scout troop from which his daughter drops out. Here Apple illuminates love and loss with tender humor and sadness, and he is obviously not kidding...
...their lawns and carted their kids to Cub Scout meetings. Bill tinkered around the house, and pieced out his teacher's salary by painting houses and working at the post office on school vacations. Erma, he says, was always repainting or redecorating, moving the furniture around. There was, of course, a septic tank, and in the summer, says Erma, "you could see that little sucker sink into the ground and you'd think, 'There goes another $400.' " But there weren't many one-liners: "Who was there to listen...
...West. Last night at midnight, a Cuban plane arrived in Buenos Aires carrying Emilio Aragones Navarro, the Cuban Ambassador to Argentina, who brought an urgent letter to me from Fidel Castro." That the Soviets, despite their preoccupations in Poland and Afghanistan, should have sent the Cubans to scout a target of opportunity as tempting as Argentina was hardly astonishing. At one point, Galtieri confided that the Russians had insinuated that they might be prepared to have one of their submarines sink the British carrier Invincible with Prince Andrew aboard and let Argentina take credit for the action. I was incredulous...