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...most elated observer was undoubtedly Araki, who regularly scans the skies over his village in Niigata prefecture. "I've discovered a wonderful star," said the young bachelor. "Now I've got to discover a wonderful wife." Perhaps the comet was a propitious sign...
...ruddy-faced Yankee who looks as if he stepped out of a John Cheever story, Biggs has a bachelor's degree from Yale and an M.B.A. from New York University. The market watcher keeps in shape for the intense Wall Street action by pumping a bicycle at the Morgan Stanley gym for up to 45 minutes at a time. He believes that an investment manager's most important product is his judgment, and he hones his by reading voraciously, and not just technical journals. Two recent and related devourings: Peter the Great by Robert Massie...
Edward Lawson, 37, a bachelor and the head of his own consulting and entrepreneurial firm in San Francisco, liked to take long walks while on business in the San Diego area, often in the dead of night. As he strolled the deserted streets, no one ever bothered him except the police. Between March 1975 and January 1977, Lawson was stopped 15 times for vagrancy under a provision of the California penal code that requires an individual to provide "credible and reliable" identification to a police officer who has reason to be suspicious. Prosecuted twice and convicted once, Lawson brought suit...
Gage tells these stories vividly, unsparingly. He is equally candid about the catastrophic effects of his grandfather's hardheartedness, his uncle's greed, his father's preference for being a family man in Greece but a bachelor in America. During passages in which he debates inconclusively the nature of justice, Gage admits his own base impulses: he smuggled a gun into Greece in order to murder the now aged "judge" who had condemned his mother. At the last moment, having spat in the man's face, Gage renounced the crime because it would put his gratification...
...Ballesteros. "Play the course," the winner had counseled himself, "and be cool." Asked how his second Masters victory compared with the first, Ballesteros said, "I tell you, they are both very sweet. But the first is always the best, like when you marry the first time." He is a bachelor...