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...days after his graduation from Annapolis, Poindexter married Linda Goodwin, a college student he had met while traveling with the Naval Academy debating team. In John's first year at Caltech, Linda bore the first of five sons, who now range in age from 27 to 16. Linda is as outgoing as John is reserved. "On personality tests we are on the opposite ends of the spectrum," says she. After their children started leaving home in 1980, Linda began studying for the ministry. She was ordained an Episcopal priest last December, and is associate pastor of a church in Gaithersburg...
...never told him that his proposals had been disapproved. He said he had "no recollection" of ever seeing Reagan's initials or check of approval on any returned document. He had shredded all but one of his copies and, incredibly, could not remember even looking to see if they bore approvals. It was the discovery on Nov. 22 of the one copy North had missed that hastened Meese's bombshell disclosure of the diversion three days later...
...perestroika (restructuring) seemed intact last week. Reports circulated in Washington that Secretary of State George Shultz and Soviet Foreign Minister Eduard Shevardnadze might soon meet in an attempt to resolve remaining differences on an arms accord, and thus pave the way for a summit. Gorbachev's campaign for "democratization" bore fruit last week as the Soviets conducted their first experiment in multicandidate balloting. In 5% of the country's roughly 52,000 districts, voters chose from a list of candidates that exceeded the number of available posts. Ironically, Gorbachev was not among that privileged handful. When he and his wife...
...Adele Chatfield-Taylor both spoke, after flipping a coin to see who would go first. (She did.) In a boisterous, though notably erudite, bit of counterpoint to the family theme, graduates of Harvard's School of Public Health tossed into the air hundreds of condoms encased in envelopes that bore the Latin message ad venerem securiorem. Translation: "for safe sex." Herewith a sampling of other, more formal messages to the Class of '87 from commencement speakers around the nation...
...misses. For there is an inherent problem about any sequel that too slavishly duplicates the style and substance of its predecessor; it cannot deliver the delight of discovery that the original provided. Axel made a swell first impression, but he is still living on it, perhaps not yet a bore, but not quite as fascinating as he once promised to be. This is not going to bother the apparently vast audience that now exists for twice-told tales about familiar figures. And it makes life easy for the guys in marketing and very likely delightful for those in accounting...