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Like Father. Envious competitors consider Bergesen aloof and insufferably vain, not the least for his habit of walking the three miles from his suburban home to his Oslo office each morning, while a chauffeured limousine trails behind. Nine years ago, the rivals got an unexpected recruit, when his son Berge Sigval Bergesen repeated a bit of family history: he broke with the family firm, railing that father found it "impossible to retire." Now 48, Berge has his own charter operation called Sigship. Warily staying away from tankers, he specializes in bulk carriers - many of them also leviathans in their class...
...Ultimatums. In Victorian times, the game of Fathers & Sons was a ruthless affair. Lord Randolph, Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1886, was type and exemplar of a caste-the British aristocracy, whose members had pride, privilege, titles to mark them off from lesser men, retinues of servants and the habit of ruling a vast household and an empire. They exacted a fearful price of admission from their heirs; the initiation rites were as painful as and more prolonged than those for an Apache brave. Before the little lordlings could dish it out, they had to learn to take...
...speaks English well, but with a thick Russian accent. He smokes a great deal (a habit he acquired at 15 when jailed for spreading anti-Czarist propaganda), holding his cigarettes in the European manner -- between thumb and index finger with palm toward the mouth...
...professional environment. His wife of eight years, Actress Jane Wyman, whom he had met while filming Brother Rat, decided to divorce him in 1948. Neither she nor Ronnie has ever discussed their breakup in public, but a close mutual friend recalls that Reagan had long been in the habit of delivering animated readings from the newspaper over breakfast and then insisting on an analytical discussion of current events. Jane, the story goes, finally revolted against eggs-and-cerebration and fled with their two children, Maureen, now 24, and Michael...
...months ago, after serving half of a five-year stretch for income tax evasion, Beck boasts that "I came out in better shape than I went in." Since the kind of Gemiitlichkeit that goes with his $50,-000-a-year Teamsters pension was out, he picked up "the exercise habit" in the hoosegow, made it a point "to be out on that exercise track every morning." Now in his Seattle pad, Beck can't shake the stir-born routine of stretching his legs without going anywhere, so he's bought an exercycle for a fast...