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...that Brezhnev and Andropov held (General Secretary of the Communist Party and President, as well as Chairman of the Defense Council), he in fact merely shares power with Defense Minister Dmitri Ustinov and Foreign Minister Gromyko. It is the latter who, after more than a quarter-century as the executor of other men's policies, is thought to have been most instrumental in shaping the current hard line. There seems to be no one powerful enough to rein him in. Adam Ulam, director of Harvard's Russian Research Center, suspects that "Gromyko is making up for the time...
...should become my prey." But when a friend recommends that Barclay overcome his "universal indifference" by cultivating his affections, even starting with a dog, Barclay adapts the suggestion by trying to reduce Tucker to the condition of a dog. Tantalizing Tucker with the prospect of being Barclay's literary executor, Barclay forces Tucker at one point to lap wine from a saucer...
...remember, of course, Casper W. Weinberger '38 and George Shultz. They first made it big in the halcyon days of the Nixon White House Cap was "Cap the Knife," Nixon's "chief executor of sacred cows," in Newsweek's words. A fiscal conservative, but a Rockefeller liberal, they said, a man who took the surgeon's knife to the vast bureaucracy at the Federal Trade Commission, then the Office of Management and Budget, and finally the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. "He's no ideologue," said one liberal congressman when Weinberger was named Defense Secretary three years...
...with a flair for the dramatic, Erin Fleming, 42, was Groucho Marx's companion for the last six years of his life. Whatever their life was like together, the battle being waged in Santa Monica, Calif., between Fleming and the bank that was named as Marx's executor has had all the decorum of the courtroom scene in Duck Soup. In the seven-week case, which goes to the jury this week, the Bank of America accused her of gulling the comedian out of $428,000 before he died in 1977 at the age of 86. After outbursts...
...academic chopped liver, it is going to be hard to tell how much of the Perelman persona was Perelman himself. Until then, the only thing to go on is the 45-page autobiographical fragment "The Hindsight Saga," in the posthumous opus The Last Laugh which Perelman's publisher and executor have just produced. Concentrating on Perelman's early years in Hollywood, where he worked on the screenplays for the Marx Brother's Monkey Business and Horse Feathers and on a number of other comedies, it reveals a Perelman considerably less impulsive and a bit more socially adept than his fictional...