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...peppering her hosts with rapid-fire questions and spontaneous comments. At the University of Geneva, Raisa, a Ph.D. in Marxism-Leninism who has lectured in Communist theory at Moscow State University, startled the rector by engaging him in a conversation about the relationship between philosophy and physics. At a clock museum, she jokingly inquired whether one ceremonial item was a Swiss watch; the director sheepishly admitted it was French. Raisa Gorbachev also demonstrated a beguiling bilingualism. Fingering a jeweled antique timepiece, she displayed it to U.S. television camera crews and warbled in accented English...
...could tell Joe Theismann or perhaps he could tell her, a broken leg wished on anyone is a prayer for luck. As the Super Bowl quarterback was resting comfortably in a hospital last week, and his Hollywood actress was pre-empting war and peace on Washington's 11 o'clock news, the Redskins' players and management were ashamed to say out loud that it was a lucky break...
Under Reagan, the FBI's Counterintelligence budget has tripled, which means that the FBI can keep track of more suspects and conduct round-the-clock surveillance when necessary. (It can take 16 agents working in shifts to watch one suspect.) The Administration has also put an FBI agent on the staff of the National Security Council, a move that symbolizes concerns about the dangers of espionage...
...poignant picture, not least of all because the child, plump, sleeping with his mouth open, would be dead soon afterward. He died at 4 o'clock one morning in the motel room occupied by his mother, of malnutrition, or dehydration, or congenital defects--the precise cause is no doubt listed somewhere in the medical records...
...later years, Bill Veeck had second thoughts about his most famous stunt, sending a midget up to the plate in a major league game. "Were it in my power to turn back the clock, I'd never send a midget to bat," he declared two decades after the fact. "No, I'd use nine of the little fellows, including the designated hitter...