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Europe's pacesetter is Britain, which is growing at a 4% pace. British businessmen are enjoying a new rush of confidence now that Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher has won a third term. But Samuel Brittan, an economics columnist for London's Financial Times, noted that Britain faced a real challenge in trying to remain an "island of rapid growth without an improvement in its main trading partners." The same task confronts Italy, which is expected to expand at a 3% rate this year. Said Guido Carli, former Governor of the Bank of Italy: "I doubt that Italy can sustain...
DIED. James Burnham, 81, pungent conservative columnist, author (The Managerial Revolution) and apostate Trotskyist who in 1955 became a founding editorial-board member of William F. Buckley's National Review; in Kent, Conn. The Chicago-born Burnham won renown for books (The Struggle for the World, The Coming Defeat of Communism) that warned of an inevitable U.S.-Soviet confrontation. In 1983 he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom...
...after Hellman's death three years ago, Parker's remains were moved to a safe in the Manhattan office of her executor, Attorney Paul O'Dwyer, who hoped that someone, possibly a distant relative, might step forward to collect them. O'Dwyer appealed to New York Daily News Columnist Liz Smith, who wrote about Parker's plight last week in her syndicated column. The result was a torrent of inquiries, including one from a wealthy Midwesterner who offered to inter Parker's remains on his country estate and another from an Arizona businessman who volunteered to create a special paint...
...double mirrors of their slate-gray dressing rooms, and each saw the next President of the U.S. Minutes later, the politicians were seated in leather chairs for the first debate of the too much, too soon 1988 presidential season. So what if their host and chief inquisitor was Conservative Columnist William F. Buckley Jr., who took puckish delight in presenting the Democratic lineup on a special two-hour edition of his TV show, Firing Line? These were seven candidates in search of an audience -- and they were eager to prove they were ready for prime time...
...true British tabloid style, no detail was spared. Several papers gleefully reported how Dunne and the princess danced until dawn at a wedding after Charles had left. Nigel Dempster, the country's leading gossip columnist, informed readers of the Daily Mail on Sunday that Di spent the weekend with Dunne and other guests at his family's country home while both his parents and Charles were away. When Diana was photographed at a David Bowie concert next to a handsome man, several papers trumpeted that it was Dunne. It was not; Di's companion turned out to be an officer...