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...killer tornadoes rolled from Wisconsin to New York last Friday, leaving hundreds injured and at least 86 dead, 60 of them in Pennsylvania. The twister knocked out power lines and flattened scores of houses and small factories. In some places, the winds were accompanied by hailstones the size of golf balls. It was the worst tornado disaster since 1974, when a rogue storm ravaged the South and Midwest and took 315 lives...
...Rosty" the reformer? No one who has watched Congressman Dan Rostenkowski cut a deal with a colleague or swing a golf club with a lobbyist has ever called him that. Indeed, as a former Chicago ward heeler and protege of the late Mayor Richard Daley, he seems to be the quintessential machine pol. Yet, by the peculiar dynamic of politics, the chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee has become the point man for the most ambitious attempt ever at overhauling the loophole-laden tax code. "The reform hat I am wearing is not yet comfortable," Rostenkowski cheerfully confessed...
...President promised not to raise "golf balls" in anybody's throat, but did. Nancy cast her eyes down. Meese, the new Attorney General, beamed at everybody. White House switchboard operators, advancemen and journalists, all acknowledging some admiration of the troika era, nibbled shrimps and watched the shadows along the White House lengthen and history move...
...write the sort of detective novel they both enjoyed reading. She did, but by the time The Mysterious Affair at Styles appeared in print, the war was over and Agatha had a daughter, and a husband, grounded at last, who seemed chiefly interested in making money and playing golf...
...bankers. So it went with the merger between Allied and Signal, announced last week. Edward Hennessy Jr., Allied's chairman, along with Forrest Shumway and Michael Dingman, Signal's chairman and president, met March 5 at Marriott's Camelback Inn, a plush Scottsdale, Ariz., resort with two 18-hole golf courses, two swimming pools and ten tennis courts. Hennessy and Dingman registered under the last name of Dingman's secretary. Although the executives are fond of sports, they seldom left their rooms. When discussing the firms, they called Allied "East" and Signal "West...