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...wealth, Tisch lives relatively modestly and quietly. With Wilma ("Billie"), his wife of 38 years, he shares a Manhattan apartment and a suburban house in Rye, N.Y., overlooking Long Island Sound. The Loews chairman never smokes, only occasionally drinks and usually plays tennis twice each weekend. "He always wants to win," observes Investment Banker Bernard Stein, one of his regular partners. Tisch also enjoys showing guests first-run % movies on a full-size screen. Friends are devoted to him. Says Stein: "If I were in trouble and had to make a phone call, he's the guy I'd call...
Hundreds of shoppers were lunching in the self-service cafeteria of a suburban department store near Paris late last week when a bomb had exploded at precisely 12:29 p.m., devastating a 800-sq.-ft. area. Flying glass and debris wounded 41 people, two of them seriously. The blast came only four days after another bomb had ripped through a crowded post office at Paris' city hall, killing one person and wounding 18 others. Amid a wave of minor and apparently unrelated bombings across Western Europe last week, Paris remained the center of a brutal game of terrorist blackmail...
...attack was the bloodiest since the recent wave of bombings began Sept. 8. Earlier explosions hit a city hall post office, a cafeteria in suburban La Defense, the Pub Renault on the Champs-Elysees Avenue and police headquarters in central Paris...
...virtually cloudless day. Trying to slow the dive of his 60-ton plane, Valdes threw its two engines into reverse thrust. The whine of the jets grew to an awful roar before the airliner smashed with a fiery explosion into a pleasant middle-class neighborhood of suburban Cerritos, where residents had been enjoying the Labor Day weekend...
Crack is an "equal-opportunity addiction," says Kilcullen. Crack is as easy to come by on Wall Street as it is in Harlem, and teenagers drive into the city from their parents' suburban homes to stand in line next to yuppies who are furtively handing over $100 bills for crack vials...