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LEADING LIVES: Casey by Joseph E. Persico -- The secrets of businessman-spook William. The Colonel by Godfrey Hodgson -- Henry Stimson's life and active service. Gorbachev by Gail Sheehy -- From playpen to perestroika. What a guy! Ronald Reagan: An American Life -- Now he remembers! In All His Glory: William S. Paley by Sally Bedell Smith -- The prime time of TV's most glamorous tycoon. A Life of Picasso by John Richardson -- Volume I, 1881 to 1906, by the artist's scholarly friend. Blown Away by A.E. Hotchner -- Drugs, death and the Rolling Stones. A Hole in the World by Richard...
...uniform -- one leg at a time -- before every game, yet they never play. They come in two basic shapes: potbellied pinups for prepackaged diet plans and tightly wound, taut-skinned, tanned Marlboro men. Their first names usually end with that boyish diminutive, the letter y, as in Casey, Whitey, Sparky, Tommy and Buddy. We are, of course, talking about big-league baseball managers, one of the strangest breeds in pro sports...
Make no mistake: not every freshly anointed manager is the second coming of Casey Stengel. In fact, Stengel had only one winning season in the 13 years he piloted a team other than the Yankees. Steinbrenner's Bronx Bumblers still + boast the worst record in baseball, despite new manager Stump Merrill, who says bravely, "I just hope I can survive and stay here." Atlanta managed at least briefly to climb out of last place under Bobby Cox, who swapped the general manager's office for a seat in the dugout. But as Lasorda, in his 15th year as Dodger manager...
...menacing as many thought. Yet the portrait will never be complete. These days in the muted luncheon- table conversations among both prosecutors and defense-team members, there is the acknowledgment that the one man who really put the grand plot together has left the scene. That is Bill Casey, the CIA director who died in May 1987 from pneumonia after surgery for a brain tumor, a man who loved power, position and a good mystery. John Poindexter did not have the temperament for the shady back-alley intrigue that Casey concocted...
...most explosive example of how far states may go to repel raiders came two weeks ago, when Pennsylvania Governor Robert Casey signed into law the toughest antitakeover statute in the U.S. The sweeping measure requires an investor who holds 20% or more of a company's shares for less than two years to forfeit any profit on shares sold within 18 months of a failed takeover bid. The law would discourage takeover artists from launching a raid to drive up the price of a target company's stock and then selling out at a profit...