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...century style, many for the local theater. He took me backstage with him. I was fascinated." Giorgio's parents diverted him from dreams of the lively arts and into medical school, which he endured for three years before surrendering to the inevitable military service and a three-year hitch as a medical assistant. Back in civvies in 1954, he took a job, "almost by accident," with La Rinascente, one of Italy's largest department-store chains. He helped put together a series of ambitious window displays "showing quality products from countries the ordinary Italian couldn't visit...
While every track is vintage Reed, two in particular stand out. One could spend hours trying to figure out "The Heroine," a bare, haunting song that features only a guitar and Reed's voice. At first, it seems a tale of adventure on the high seas that sports one hitch: the hero is a woman. But the cut takes on added significance when one remembers the Velvet Underground sang "Heroin," a violently direct song about drugs. All at once, the drug imagery emerges...
...clipboard and whistle will earn him an estimated average annual salary of $280,000 over the next six years, making him the highest-paid employee on any of the nation's campuses. Sherrill breezed through his third 11-1 record in a row this past season, but his hitch in College Station, Texas, may be bumpy. Texas A & M scraped through a 7-5 record last year. Life at home should be smooth. Says Sherrill: "When I returned home from Texas, my wife Daryle said, 'I always wanted to marry a millionaire...
...poll, conducted behind the closed doors of the Security Council's chambers, gave the necessary minimum of nine votes to Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 48, a Harvard-educated Iranian citizen who was the U.N.'s High Commissioner for Refugees from 1965 to 1977. But there was one hitch: his detractors included Soviet Ambassador Oleg Troyanovsky, who, because he represents one of the council's five permanent members, was entitled to veto any candidate. This he did, considering Sadruddin too pro-Western. That opened the way for the runner-up, Pérez, who had won eight votes...
...first brandished it against Washington politicos. "I went through a terrible period... my opponents were screaming bloody murder, accusing me of cheating." While most of Washington officialdom are now converts, rumor has it that president Reagan doesn't play the game because he hasn't figured out where to hitch his horse on the court.