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...paid $24,000 for the Holt job. "Damn," says Reuben Frost, "will all this be in the papers?" Not a chance. For Frost, retired Wall Street lawyer and the dance company's board chairman, is also friends with N.Y.P.D. Detective Luis Bautista, who promises to "keep the lid on" until the case is solved. The pair met in Haughton Murphy's first novel, Murder for Lunch. In their second encounter, the Princeton-educated attorney and the Puerto Rican- born cop blend culture and crime as expertly as the bartender at Frost's private club mixes martinis...
...that O'Donnell's 1 1/2- hour presentation was "incoherent." At one point, Yunich reports, O'Donnell volunteered that he had been "kicked out of" Columbia Business School and thus had a weak grasp of finance. Says Yunich: "We couldn't figure out whether this person had flipped his lid or not." O'Donnell says he was merely passing on Claremont's unsolicited buy-out proposal and had thus done nothing wrong...
...taking a different tack to haul his economically and spiritually exhausted nation out of the quagmire. Most notably, the ramrod-straight Polish army general, who has lately tried to soften his austere image by mingling with factory workers and common folk, now seems prepared to pry loose the lid that clamped shut on critics of his regime after the military crackdown five years ago. Indeed, the Polish leader admitted last week that some actions recently taken by his own officials "were mishaps, like an elephant in a china shop...
...Administration's distress at being caught out in such an improbable and embarrassing situation was evident in the scramble of the White House to put a lid on the rapidly expanding story. Whereas only a few weeks ago the Administration had rallied its forces to defend the President's actions at the Iceland summit, virtually blitzing the media with press conferences, interviews and briefings, now there was a chorus of no comments, off-the- record observations, obfuscations and pointed suggestions of self- restraint, even repression of the emerging facts. President Reagan declared that the | disclosures "are making it more difficult...
...limits his exercise to walking. His wife, in contrast, is ferociously athletic. Five times a week, though less in winter, she plays singles tennis. Every morning she rises at 5 a.m. and makes the family breakfast. After posting the menu matter-of-factly on the inside of the toilet lid, she heads out for a 3 1/2-mile run or ten-mile bike ride; in the evening she takes a half-mile swim. She cherishes those hours as "private time." Still, she interrupts her running when she sees people stretching incorrectly, bellowing "Don't bounce...