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...book is a novel about the Mafia, and, when Coop shoppers asked Breslin discreet questions about that organization, he couldn't see what all the fuss was about. "Hell, when it comes to larceny, I'm betting on the businessman," he said. "The Mafia-they're tough guys-but they're only trying to steal as much as the Protestant bankers do. And they don't succeed. In their wildest dreams, they didn't think of stealing as much as Wolfson could...
...Discreet Rhetoric. Dr. Holland likes to be called "Brud," a nickname for "brother" that his sisters hung on him years ago. A husky (230 Ibs.) six-footer, he still carries himself with the agility of a man who was twice an All-America end at Cornell and was elected in 1965 to the Football Hall of Fame...
...education" films pack moviehouses. In Hamburg's seamy, mile-square St. Pauli district, whose fleshpots draw 300,000 visitors a month, businessmen who are shy about being spotted on the notorious Reeperbahn can swing into an underground garage, park, choose a fraülein at a discreet Kontakthof (contact court), then take an elevator to one of two six-story, modern sexscrapers named Eros Center and the Palais d'Amour...
...once the exclusive province of Popeye. Lynn Redgrave, tricked out in a miniskirted bridal gown, looks rather appealingly like a marshmallow on toothpicks. But her accent, a mixture of two Birminghams?Alabama's and England's?must be heard to be disbelieved. Even Hooks ?normally a powerful and discreet actor?is lost in this raucous ménagerie à trois...
...management of his family's holdings in future generations. Only a bare outline of these complex arrangements is likely to be made public through his will. The closely guarded secrets of the Kennedys' finances will remain in the hands of a small group of totally discreet professional managers operating from Suite 3021 in Manhattan's Pan Am Building. The fortune, used in the past with unrivaled success to achieve the power and prestige of the nation's highest offices, will henceforth be deployed according to a long-term strategy. The aim is to consolidate what...