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...Strauss, former head of the Democratic National Committee, was the guest last week for the 2,000th Sperling Breakfast, a capital institution of high cholesterol and high-powered talk. He sat down, eyed his journalistic adversaries and said, "You're being a little harsh, more than a little harsh, on the presidential candidates. They've been described as midgets, pygmies and nobodies. That is not right...
...really one contented family," notes Ron Lindop, 50, a Rolls wood polisher for 35 years. Especially contented is Richard Perry, 54, the chief executive who has just overseen production of the company's 100,000th car. The royal-blue Silver Spur Centenary will go on display at the Crewe plant alongside a 1904 two-cylinder tourer and a 1907 Silver Ghost. Twenty-five duplicate Centenarys will be sold for $125,000 each. Says Perry of the historic achievement: "Eighty-one years is a long time to produce 100,000 cars, but that fact speaks volumes for itself...
Yale's junior sensation Sue Johnson, who last week scored her 1,000th career point, was outstanding. She scored 24 points (on nine for 12 shooting), grabbed even rebounds, and handed out five assists...
MARRIED. Pete Rose, 43, record-racking baseball superstar, now playing left field for the Montreal Expos; and Carol Woliung, 29, a former model from Lawrenceburg, Ind.; both for the second time; in Cincinnati. Rose hoped to celebrate the occasion by getting his 4,000th career hit in his home town, against the Cincinnati Reds, but failed. On his next outing, the day before his birthday, he doubled against the Phillies in Montreal and became the second man, after Ty Cobb in 1927, to reach...
...older and wiser," says Peter Martins, 37, who is retiring as a performer to serve full time as the company's co-ballet-master-in-chief with Jerome Robbins. Last week he made his emotional final New York appearance as the cavalier in the company's 1,000th performance of the Tchaikovsky classic. An added sprinkle of confected delight was supplied for the farewell by the premiere of Robbins, 65, in the nondancing role of the toymaker Drosselmeyer. For fans of the sugary fantasy, a treat nonpareil...