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Cracking Down. The Oct. 5 abduction of Cross-the first political kidnaping to occur north of the Rio Grande-set in motion a series of events that shocked the world. Acting with unflinching determination, Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau rejected the terrorists' initial extravagant demands for Cross' release: $500...
For those who enjoy reading cookbooks, the confection of the year is Richard Olney's The French Menu Cookbook (Simon & Schuster; $10). An American who has lived in France since 1951, Olney is a rare newcomer who has found acceptance with the U.S. cooking establishment on his first publication...
When Fischer visited Watergate for this week's cover story on Mrs. Mitchell and the other women of official Washington, he took care to arrive fully prepared with a tape recorder. "It was a good thing I did," says Fischer. "Although Mrs. Mitchell was suffering from a cold, we...
In American Journey, Jean Stein's new book about Robert Kennedy, Washington's grandest grande dame, crisp, canny and perennial Alice Roosevelt Longworth, 86, contributes her own distinctive views about the difference between Bobby and John F. Kennedy: "I see Jack in older years as the nice little...
Died. Gladys Mills Phipps, 87. grande dame of U.S. thoroughbred racing; in Westbury, N.Y. The wife of Financier Henry Carnegie Phipps, she founded her Wheatley Stable in 1929, hired such famed trainers as Sunny Jim Fitzsimmons, Bill Winfrey and Eddie Neloy, and bred and raced a long list of champions...