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Both the President and Defense Secretary Harold Brown, who appeared haggard but resolutely amiable and relaxed when he held a large televised press briefing at the Pentagon, revealed an unsurprising but well-concealed fact: military training for a rescue had begun last November, shortly after militant students took over the embassy. Repeated claims by various security experts at the Pentagon, State Department and White House that a mission to free the hostages was virtually impossible were actually designed to lull the captors into believing that no such effort would be mounted. This attempt to protect the possibility of surprise...
Warren Grossman whipped Harold Schaff, 6-2, 6-3, while Mike Terner busily dug a 6-2, 6-2, grave for the Bruin's number four, Phil Diaz. To round off the singles festivities, Adam Beren didn't take much time to mutilate Dirk Long...
Until the new smaller cars from Detroit's Big Three arrive, the American auto picture will remain gloomy. Ford's North American auto chief, Harold ("Red") Poling, says pessimistically: "The outlook is not good. In 1981 there will be some pickup but not a big one, and there is some chance of resurgence in 1982 or '83. I think we are going to be going through a very tough period." With management and assembly-line personnel slashed, the dealer base eroded and consumer loyalty dissipated, it may be another few years before spring blooms again in Detroit...
This largely buried argument is all that connects the book's welter of anecdotes. A Chicago teen-ager named Harold Rubin is limned practicing self-abuse over photographs of nude women. He is joined in the narrative by the newly married Hugh Hefner, who wanders the streets and gazes at apartment windows where women might appear. Hefner makes room later for John Bullaro, a married Los Angeles insurance executive who bicycles to Venice Beach on Sundays to ogle sunbathers...
...mark his birthday last year, friends roasted Allen Harold Neuharth, 56, with a bogus interview printed under the logo of the Cocoa (Fla.) Today, a newspaper he helped launch in 1966. "We're pushing for a Pulitzer this year," the fictive Neuharth remarks at one point. In what category? "Profit. Er, make that 'progress...