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...ANNOUNCEMENT THAT HAD BEEN expected since December finally came last week: the Princess of Wales has reluctantly agreed to a divorce from the heir to Britain's throne. It signaled an end to a failed marriage as famed as any in history, the unexampled source of sustenance to the tabloid press and a wish-book chronicle that has nourished the fantasies of people on several continents for 15 years. The Establishment lost no time in expressing suitably pious sentiments. Said Lord St. John of Fawsley, a constitution expert and an unquenchable royals commentator: "My main feeling is relief. Insofar...
...national scene. Lugar's message, emphasizing foreign policy and a national sales tax, never caught on with voters. The Indiana senator's best result came Tuesday in Vermont where he captured 14 percent of the vote.ALBANY, N.Y.: Jack Kemp endorsed Steve Forbes this afternoon, saying that the publishing heir and flat-tax champion best embodied "progressively conservative" ideals. Kemp compared the GOP today to the splintered party unified more than a century ago by Abraham Lincoln. He added that Forbes' "platform of inclusion" was the most likely to position the party for long-term strength. Kemp tempered his endorsement...
...what else does he stand for? Where Malcolm Forbes was famous for collecting Faberge eggs and toy soldiers, Steve Forbes' writings show him to be a collector of policy fetishes that range from mainstream to downright odd. The one constant is their angle of vision, which, as befits an heir, is decidedly a view from...
...billionaire Ross Perot used his tremendous wealth to fund a serious campaign for the presidency. Malcolm "Steve" Forbes, Jr. is the latest super-rich prodigy to capture the attention of American voters. Polls show the magazine fortune heir leading former frontrunner Senator Bob Dole in New Hampshire, the site of the first Republican primary...
...BECOME A CHAMPION, DECLARES A plaque in the private gym that John Eleuthere du Pont built to train world-class athletes, "you can't just take it to the top. You have to take it over the top." Last week the sports- and gun-loving Du Pont, an heir to his family's chemical-company fortune, appears to have done just that. Starting on Friday afternoon and stretching into the weekend, the 57-year-old crack marksman held off police, who had sped to his mansion near Philadelphia to arrest Du Pont for the shooting death of Olympic wrestler Dave...