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...requisite skepticism toward the Soviets. But he may ultimately lack patience with compatriots he considers wrongheaded. "If Reagan fails to concede more flexibility," says one colleague, "I think Paul would leave." Even if Nitze is finally forced out of government, he will surely prefer to go discreetly, ever the gentleman policymaker. Says Nitze: "There's been entirely too much fuss made over problems here on the Washington scene." The fuss and the problems are surely not over yet. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/Washington
...hearing, to repay Matson. But last week Superior Court Judge Mark Rowland overturned that decision, giving Cox ten more days to respond. Matson and his attorney were not commenting on the decision. Cox was. Said she: "I am not in any way liable for the decision of a mature gentleman to party with vast amounts of money...
...million through Jan. 2 and by now may have displaced Star Wars ($325 million) as the biggest moneymaker of all time. Several light-years behind were the rest of the year's top ten: On Golden Pond ($120 million), Rocky III ($119 million), An Officer and a Gentleman ($109 million), Porky's ($107 million), Star Trek II ($85 million), The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas ($74.5 million), Poltergeist ($74 million), Chariots of Fire ($62 million) and Annie ($58 million...
...peculiar achievement of Sir Anthony van Dyck was to have invented the English gentleman-not the mild, knobbly, pink creature one sees beneath its bowler in the street, but the now vanishing archetype of aristocracy, calm and straight as a Purdey gun barrel, with the look of arrogant security guaranteed to paralyze all lesser breeds from Calais to Peshawar. This invention began in 1632, when Van Dyck, an ex-assistant of the greatest court painter of his age, Peter Paul Rubens, arrived in London. It ended with his death at the age of 42, in 1641. In between came seven...
...academic performances are not very revealing. F.D.R. tended to the "gentleman's C." Nixon was No. 3 out of 25 in his class at Duke University Law School, Carter was 60 out of 820 at Annapolis, Ike an unostentatious 61 out of 164 at West Point...