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FOOTNOTE: *Weinberger actually distorted the legend of King Canute, who, to chide his sycophantic followers, showed them that the advancing tide paid no heed to his commands...
...deadlock continues, Reagan will eventually have to deliver on his repeated warnings that continued detention of Daniloff will sour all U.S.-Soviet relations. But for the moment, the President is acting like anything but the hip-shooting cowboy of liberal legend and his own past oratory. That he is willing to risk alienating his own bedrock conservative constituency for the sake of keeping the hope of an arms-control deal alive says much about the pressure of presidential responsibility in reshaping the attitudes of any occupant of the Oval Office...
...well-to-do Philadelphia cigarmaker, William Paley bought a chain of 16 struggling radio stations in 1928 and nurtured his enterprise into a communications colossus. By the mid-1960s, when he reached retirement age, Paley had earned the right to rest on his legend. Yet he decided to remain as chairman and chief executive, leading to the departure of the man who had long yearned for the job, CBS President Frank Stanton. In the years that followed, Paley put a succession of heirs apparent into the president's slot and, in a pattern that became painfully familiar, fired them...
...once more and prove himself the indispensable man. The recent events, according to some, have invigorated him. "He didn't like the way he was pushed aside," says an intimate. "It took him forever to get rid of Wyman, and now he's enjoying it." For an aging broadcast legend, it is a sweet last hurrah...
...Acura model line is one of Honda's boldest gambits. Honda has tried to give the car an upscale image by insisting that dealers for the new model keep their showrooms several miles away from regular Honda outlets. The Acura Legend, a sedan slightly bigger and more powerful than the Mercedes-Benz 190, sells in the U.S. for $19,000, around $10,000 less than the Mercedes, and has % been greeted with rave notices by U.S. auto reviewers. The Legend's smaller, sportier cousin, the Integra, is priced...