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EXPECTING. Mary Cunningham, 33, America's best-known businesswoman since her meteoric, media-monitored career at Bendix Corp. in 1979-80 and her 1984 book Powerplay, which blamed the press for leering speculation about favors from the boss; and William Agee, 47, her mentor as chairman of Bendix from 1977 to 1983 and her husband of three years: their first child (he has three children by a previous marriage); in September. The couple now run their own venture-capital and consulting firm, Semper Enterprises, on Cape Cod, Mass...
...Bethesda hospital on Saturday morning became a mini-White House, with a full complement of Secret Service and military guards and a hastily rigged press and TV briefing room. Donald Regan arrived at around 7 a.m., an hour before his boss woke up to shave. Nancy got there about 9, wearing an Adolfo dress in her favorite cheery red. National Security Adviser Robert McFarlane had slipped in a side door a bit earlier. He gave Reagan, clad in lime green pajamas, his regular morning intelligence briefing, and several aides dropped by to discuss the weekly legislative calendar...
Regan's power has its price, however. Observes one Republican Congressman: "If you are the undisputed boss, you also have the undisputed responsibility when things go wrong." And Regan is indeed being blamed for everything from excessive hyperbole in the President's pre-surgery speeches to a breakdown in the Administration's relations with Congress...
...title track from the Boss's upcoming album starts with a gentle acoustic strum, gains steam on the backs of evocative nouns (blood, stone, bone) and peaks with a harmonica solo. It's nothing new, which is to say, it's very good...
James’ wit and personality permeates the book, to the extent that her stages seem to all be based on personal experience. One wonders what former roommate is the naïve “New Graduate” and what hated and despised former boss is now called “The Worker Bee.” James occasionally injects a shot of realism, reminding readers that “You don’t just wake up one day, stretch, look at the sun and say, ‘Oh baby, I’ve found...