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Glitz, Leonard's 25th novel, lives up to its title. The settings are San Juan and Atlantic City ("It's like you're in a hotel in Star Trek"), and its characters operate low to the ground and leave slimy trails. One of them is after Mora, 41, a Miami policeman convalescing in Puerto Rico from a mugger's bullet that chipped his hipbone. The wound initially looked worse than it was, because the second shot shattered a half-gallon of Gallo Hearty Burgundy that Mora was carrying, along with a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce and a bottle...
...mystery of the missing General Secretary of the Communist Party intensified last week. In Moscow, Politburo Member Mikhail Gorbachev, 53, viewed by many as the heir apparent to the leadership, canceled a trip to Paris, where he had been expected to attend the 25th congress of the French Communist Party. Two weeks earlier, the Kremlin had announced that a conference of Warsaw Pact leaders, set for mid-January, had been postponed. In Bonn, West German Socialist Leader Willy Brandt announced that a visit to the Soviet capital in mid-February had also been postponed at Moscow's request. So great...
Carrabino, in addition, is ranked 25th in the nation in individual free throw percentage. He's hitting 88.3 percent from the foul line. There are 30 players in the country are connecting at better than 87.5 percent from the charity stripe...
...Rainbow, as the Secret Service code book calls them, are unapologetic lovers, affectionate in the extreme, at times almost treacly. They call each other by diminutives: he's "Ronnie" and often she's "Mommy." At their California ranch, they paddle together in a canoe named TruLuv that was a 25th-anniversary present from "Ronnie." Every July on Nancy's birthday, Reagan calls David Jones' Hollywood flower shop and has a bouquet sent to Edith Davis, his mother-in-law. Says the florist: "He thanks her for giving him Nancy." Last Election Day, when the First Lady was still wobbly from...
...endeavor that was sidetracked temporarily in 1968 when he was named Law School Dean. That administrative digression was virtually made permanent two-and-a-half years later, when, after more than a six-month search, the governing Corporation tapped the 40-year-old Bok as Harvard's 25th president...