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When Dean stepped down, his place was taken by Brad Cook, a bald, serious-faced, ambitious man who looks older than his 36 years. As the general counsel of the SEC, Cook had been put in charge of the investigation of Vesco, a man he characterized in court as "somebody you wouldn't want to do business with." To Cook (Phillips/Exeter, Stanford, University of Nebraska Law School), Vesco was "a slimer...
...after day, while beads of sweat slowly formed on his great bald head, the Government's witness told an absorbing story of how big money could buy influence at the highest levels of Richard Nixon's Administration. Harry L. Sears, head of Nixon's re-election drive in New Jersey and onetime majority leader in the state senate, was testifying in a Manhattan courtroom against the men with whom he claims to have done shady business: John Mitchell, 60, the former U.S. Attorney General; and Maurice Stans, 65, the former U.S. Secretary of Commerce. They...
...Hemingway:...I read him for the first time in the early forties, something about bells, balls, bulls, and loathed, it. Comparing youthful expectations with elderly realities: At fifteen I visualized myself as a world-famous author of seventy with a mane of wavy white hair. Today I am practically bald. On his position "in the world of letters:" Jolly good view from up here...
Last week a window of Manhattan's R.H. Macy's displayed the latest trend in store dummies: "groupings." There, apparently engaged in conversation, was a trio of plastic, stylized males with featureless faces and bald heads. Such clusters of interacting mannequins, now on display at many major department stores, often waltz, golf, and even play baseball, as silent spectators look on at the fence. "The old mannequins with their screwed-on heads and half-witted expressions are gone," says Norman Glazer, national sales manager for Wolf & Vine, a Los Angeles mannequin manufacturer. "They were real dummies, no better...
...death: treating it as a new civil rights issue. More than 40 years ago, Austrian Novelist and Playwright Stefan Zweig wrote: "Among the 'rights of man' there is a right which no one can take away, the right to croak when and where one pleases." This bald manifesto might serve as the banner that Miss Mannes marches under...