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...with the candidate and other advisers at Washington's Ritz- Carlton hotel to provide a three-hour tour d'horizon of world affairs. Over the next few weeks, Quayle aides concocted more than 200 possible questions. In the week before the debate, Quayle, intensively coached by Bush media guru Roger Ailes, performed two mock debate rehearsals with Oregon Senator Bob Packwood playing Bentsen. At one point Packwood rudely interrupted so the handlers could see how Quayle would react. They even considered faking a power failure to test Quayle's composure, but rejected the idea...
WHEN ZWEIG TALKS, PEOPLE LISTEN. Analysts who foretold the crash have achieved guru status. Chief among them may be Marty Zweig, 46, who publishes the Zweig Forecast newsletter and manages $1.3 billion in pension funds from his Manhattan headquarters. Zweig turned bearish in September 1987 and predicted that the Dow Jones average would soon plunge 1,000 points, to 1755 (the actual bottom: 1738). In the year since his prediction came true, with most newsletters sagging, his subscriber list has grown 90%, to 15,275 (at $245 a year...
Georgia's Robert Prechter, 39, had become the hottest stock guru in 1986 and '87 because of the bullish predictions in his newsletter The Elliott Wave Theorist ($233 a year). He based his forecasts on a mix of esoteric formulas and offbeat indicators like hemlines: the return of the miniskirt, he said, was a sign of a peak in the market. Prechter issued a warning on Oct. 5, advising his subscribers to sell their stocks. But he did not predict the downturn's severity, which disappointed some followers. "New business has virtually disappeared," Prechter concedes, but he is philosophical: "Going...
ROBERT Wright, now senior editor at The New Republic, appropriately begins his "search for meaning" by taking us on a journey: to the private Caribbean island of multimillionaire computer scientist Edward Fredkin (rumored to be the model for the pessimistic and reclusive computer guru in the movie, War Games...
Coach: Joe Restic, offensive genius, watched as his special teams botched last week's game. What do you think the gray-haired gridiron guru made his team work on in practice this week? Snap, snap, snap. Restic is seeking his 100th career victory this season. He has 96 so far. He is 9-7-1 against Dartmouth...