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...Reagan has made a ritual of rising a few moments after takeoff to roll an orange toward the emergency exit at the rear, which she usually manages to hit. When she is not along, Reagan takes over the routine and converts it into an act. Sometimes he is a bowler, sometimes a football player, frequently a pitcher squinting toward an imaginary catcher, shaking off sign after sign, going into a full windup before finally releasing the orange, which almost never hits the exit...
...Neal, 43, a 220-lb. ex-Marine with a black belt in karate, has no qualms about taking on Dixon. Says O'Neal: "I've always accomplished what I've set out to do -running for office or becoming a good bowler." Ten years ago, when he was a pharmacist in rural Belleville, he decided to run for sheriff when a deputy took two days to answer a complaint by O'Neal's wife about a prowler. O'Neal won handily, fired the deputy and soon made a name for himself by packing...
...disagreement was largely a matter of style. Discreet and conservative in its ways, the Rothschild bank is the epitome of bowler hat British banking. The Rothschild trust, known as RIT for short, is something of a swinger in world financial circles. Under Jacob's management, its assets have increased astronomically, from $14.3 million to $239 million since 1970, through investments in art galleries and auction houses, among others...
...populating the bar, slugging down the gin and tonics a little too quickly. Most of us are in the "Cloud 9" restaurant, and the three plump waitresses are going mildly mad. In the booth next door, a cameraman for Channel 3 is flashing black pin-stripes and a white bowler. There is a reporter for the Manchester Guardian who asks us if Harvard has started accepting women. There are reporters everywhere, lining the halls, careening into the state police and generally raising hell...
...photographer swears, having wasted two shots on what he thought was the Pope. Humberto Cardinal Medeiros heads up the ramp, the U.S. Chief of Protocol in tow. First Lady Rosalynn Carter is conspicuous in a black skirt-and-jacket-suit with a matching hat that could only be a bowler. The Pope makes his first appearance in the U.S. during his pontiffship and the dignitaries break into respectful applause. The photographers just click away...