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...arrogance typical of Harvard administrators and professors. Self-deprecating and affable, Verba talks in terms of which issues he has to "worry about" rather than "tackle" or "resolve." His workload often depends on what things suddenly "fall on my desk," he says, looking around his cluttered Coolidge Hall hideaway--a sharp contrast to his stately University Hall digs...
...rewards of being a successful farmer. They included two Porsches, a Datsun, three four-wheel-drive pickup trucks, a redwood home perched on a hilltop in Northern California, a three-bedroom house with an outdoor Jacuzzi near the beach in Los Angeles and a custom-built vacation hideaway in Hawaii. Then he opened up a plastic bag and pinched out a sample of the crop that has made his fortune of nearly $1 million: marijuana...
...money's worth. The main building, 600 yds. long with its two 150-yd. wings, had 2,000 rooms and could house 1,000 noblemen with their retinues. In 1687, Louis felt the need for a bit of privacy and built the Grand Trianon, a modest 72-room hideaway of pink and green marble, a mile and a half away. That edifice, in turn, inspired the Petit Trianon, a 30-room cottage that Louis XV built for his mistress Madame de Pompadour in 1762. When Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette fell victim to the French Revolution...
...salvage the Administration's proposal to sell AW ACS radar planes to Saudi Arabia, Baker carefully choreographed the President's lobbying effort, even deciding details like which Senators should ride together to and from the White House. A special telephone in Baker's Capitol Hill hideaway-White House extension 806-gives him a direct line to the President. "I've got one at home too," says Baker with a smile. His other direct line to the White House is through Senator Paul Laxalt of Nevada. Because of Laxalt's close friendship with Reagan, some...
...former Actor Tony De Marco, were asking for about $1 million a year, but would settle for a package reportedly totaling $850,000. Los Angeles is willing to pay $350,000. Unable to bridge the gap, the lefthander picked up his glove and went back to Fernando's Hideaway in Mexico. Said Valenzuela, who earned $42,500 last year: "We are flexible. Why can't they...