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...year-old founder of Rolling Stone, ''and I practically get acid flashbacks.'' In other words: been there, done that. For any smug baby boomer, it is pleasant to see the young so precisely following in one's footsteps. A century ago, there was Dostoyevsky on the one hand and Dickens on the other. You could be a doomed bohemian man of principle, or you could be popular, but it was pretty hard to be both. Beginning around 1965, however, rock's big stars became a new breed of living oxymoron: it was possible to become rich and even powerful...
...about a mid-life crisis, staged in Philadelphia in 1987. ''I like to put on football games and write,'' says Smith, who holds an M.B.A. from the University of Pittsburgh and is fond of quoting Chaucer in Middle English. ''I find it a good release.'' Malone, on the other hand, is painfully shy and often appears uncomfortable in public. Although he lives in the Denver area, he is little known there outside business circles, and he forbids interviewers to ask about his wife Leslie or their two children. A benevolent boss and a passionate sailor, Malone once painstakingly restored...
...both the U.S. and Britain, legislators suggested that Waldheim be barred from their countries. But the sharpest protest against Waldheim's election came from Israel: Jerusalem promptly recalled its ambassador from Austria for an indefinite period. The action sharpened a painful dilemma for the Israeli government. On the one hand, Israeli leaders feel obligated to pursue an ongoing investigation into $ charges that Waldheim participated in Nazi atrocities. On the other, they fear that harsh treatment of Waldheim could jeopardize Austrian cooperation in matters like Jewish emigration from the Soviet Union. Said Prime Minister Shimon Peres: ''It's not a simple...
...Street traders twice last year. The results of the inquest were severely disquieting. At least 60 bureau workers--well beyond the authorized limit--knew the secret numbers, and investigators could not tell who might have slipped information to outsiders. The three dismissed for breach of trust, on the other hand, were hardly big- time offenders: one of them made only about $300 in the bond market...
...said, ''that the development of a defense would discourage the Soviets from making the very sizable investments necessary to overcome that defense.'' This was a curiously optimistic view from a hard-liner who in the past has always assumed the worst about Soviet intentions. Nitze, on the other hand, argued that the U.S. cannot afford to hope that the Soviets will in effect say ''uncle.'' Nitze stressed, as he has on earlier occasions, that the U.S. should not deploy SDI unless it is ''survivable.'' It cannot be so vulnerable that the Soviets would be tempted to shoot it down...