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...eight shoes, five shelves of Gucci handbags and 38 of her 105 clothes racks, designed to carry 80 outfits each. Around the château hung life-size portraits depicting the former First Couple as a scantily clad Filipino version of Adam and Eve. Elsewhere, the Marcoses had been a touch more modest: the legends on their bedroom intercoms read simply "King's Room" and "Queen's Room...
...failure decides after a week in the hospital not to have gallbladder surgery. The hospital insists that she be sent home, despite her frail condition. "It was a mistake," says Dr. Bergein Over-holt. "Within twelve hours she was back in the hospital in a prestroke condition. It was touch and go to save...
...school courses and tinkering with his computer. Although ineligible for a government salary, which workers must be at least 18 to receive, De Vignemont has few financial worries. He has already earned thousands of dollars from sales of computer programs. Warns the budding technocrat: "And my parents better not touch...
...Wizard of Woz vs. King Pong. Right now, though, the two share the same electronic daydreams of ever smarter toys. They worked together once before, in 1974, when Bushnell hired Wozniak, then 23, to design a video game called Breakout, which became an early hit. They kept in touch over the years and started talking about the current partnership a month ago at a barbecue in the backyard of Bushnell's Woodside, Calif., home. Wozniak observed his two children, ages 1 and 3, playing with some of Axlon's robot toys and decided that his old friend...
...case of the surrogate mother who reneged on turning over her baby [NATION, Sept. 22] would usually touch a soft spot in this middle-aged mother's heart But all it does is ruffle my feathers. Apparently, Mary Beth Whitehead's original intention when she offered to have the baby was to help a childless couple. Then she betrayed them after the child's birth. If she had misgivings, she should have expressed them sometime during the nine months of pregnancy. Florence Y. Lewis Ann Arbor, Mich...