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...candidates' styles could not be more dissimilar. Danforth, an uncommonly shy campaigner who appears on the stump infrequently, is an ordained Episcopal priest and an heir to the Ralston Purina dog-food and cereal fortune. He is emphasizing his efforts to help two beleaguered groups-the state's auto workers (with increased tariff protections against imports) and its farmers (with rural enterprise zones). But, as the first Republican elected to the Senate from Missouri since 1946, Danforth is de-emphasizing his ties to the Reagan economic program. One of his political ads urges voters to forget the Republican...
...charity balls. Then there are the grounds for the divorce action. So far Pulitzer or his witnesses have testified that Roxanne, 31, went to bed with a local real estate salesman, a French baker, a Belgian race-car driver, the beautiful young wife of a handsome old Kleenex heir, an alleged drug dealer and a supernatural trumpet. That's right, trumpet. There are charges of drug use. And menages a trois. And incest. And death threats. "It doesn't sound very American or normal," admits a rich young acquaintance of the Pulitzers, a Palm Beach resident for more...
...charge that he once flew a load of marijuana from the Bahamas to Florida on board his plane. He also said in pretrial testimony that twice he joined in a drugs-and-sex frolic with Roxanne and Jacqueline Kimberly, 32, the third wife of James Kimberly, 76, an heir to the papermaking Kimberly-Clark fortune. But most of the time, according to Peter, his wife and Mrs. Kimberly carried on their love affair without him. Roxanne claims that two years ago, Peter gave Jacquie a gift-wrapped ounce of cocaine (value: $2,000) for Christmas. In a pretrial deposition Peter...
...Claude ("Baby Doc") Duvalier, 31, Haiti's dictator and President for Life; their first child; in December. Early last month, Haiti's First Lady made a secret predawn flight to Miami for an amniocentesis test, which revealed that Baby Doc's baby is a boy, an heir apparent to the Duvalier dynasty...
These ideals will make the November general election an ideological clash. Cuomo's opponent is Lewis Lehrman, 44, a drugstore-chain heir who pumped $3.7 million of his own into a record-setting $7 million primary campaign. Lehrman, a supply-side conservative who backed Ronald Reagan, champions the gold standard and, unlike Cuomo, believes strongly in capital punishment. Said Lehrman after last Thursday's primaries: "Now it will be a choice between two points of view, two ways of looking at the world...