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...price the shop's owners, who had rigged their phones to bill the calls to other people's numbers, managed to rake in up to $200,000 in just six months before police raided the store in June. "They were basically operating their own phone company," says Bill Brush of the Secret Service, the agency involved in breaking up the ring. "It was pure profit...
Since that first week of summer, I've lost tings, forgotten them places or damaged borrowed goods, sometimes a combination of the three. I borrowed a pair of pants from my new-tooth-brush-toting roommate Michael. It was his birthday and I wanted to look nice for the surprise party being thrown in his honor. At the end of the night, drunk out of my mind on Sangria, I sat on a banana. While reveling in the fact, chair dancing and smooshing it everywhere, Michael looked at me and said, "Bill, aren't those my pants you're wearing...
Even that impressive plot line, however, was not enough to quell the concerns raised by Eisner's brush with mortality two weeks ago, when he was rushed to surgery after a weekend with other media moguls in Idaho's Sun Valley. The unexpected illness of Disney's chairman unleashed a flood of speculation about the future of a company that only four months ago lost its second-in-command, Frank Wells, to a helicopter crash in Nevada. Last week there was some evidence that Disney executives may finally be coming to grips with the succession problem: a Disney board member...
Secretary of the Navy John Dalton has found himself in hot water. When he was being considered for his Navy post, the White House and the Senate Armed Services Committee chose to brush aside his past legal problems as head of a failed Texas S&L, according to the New York Times. Dalton insists he was "completely straightforward" with the Administration and the committee about the matter...
...that night, when Kennedy's novice government still thought it would win at the Bay of Pigs, still had not encountered Nikita Khrushchev's table pounding at the Vienna summit in June. I saw a very young American awed by the romance of the high frontier. I saw him brush aside the doubts and point this nation toward great adventure...