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...sense, For the Record was preordained the day Don Regan stormed out of the White House. As he rode through the February darkness along the Potomac to his Mount Vernon estate, he brooded about what had happened and determined to write a book. He had his meticulous notes put in a word processor and then brought in Novelist Charles McCarry, who helped Alexander Haig write his memoir, Caveat, to restructure the material...
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, BOB (NBC, May 16, 8 p.m. EDT). On the occasion of his 85th, America's Mount Rushmore of comedy, Bob Hope, is feted in a three-hour prime- time special...
Last week in the New England Journal of Medicine a team from New York's Mount Sinai School of Medicine warned that the procedure can lead to miscarriage of all the fetuses. Four of twelve pregnancies analyzed in the study were lost entirely, though the technique was clearly to blame in only one. Others have fared better: Dr. Ronald Wapner of Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia has treated 18 women with no complications...
...leaders. One of his informal advisers had been Frank Wells, a former vice chairman of Warner Bros., who had taken time out from show business to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents (he had to turn back 3,000 ft. below the summit of Mount Everest, the only one to frustrate his ambition). Wells clearly had the right stuff, especially as a financial man, but his most emphatic advice to Roy Disney was to hire Michael Eisner, president of Paramount Pictures. In eight years as the No. 2 man at Paramount, Eisner had been the wunderkind...
...survivor of the first round is Chirac or Barre, he will almost certainly find himself still trailing Mitterrand in the polls. But with the gap as narrow as the 4% shown in the Le Point poll, there may be time in the two weeks before the second round to mount a credible come-from-behind campaign. If not, Mitterrand will be the first French President to serve a second term since -- who else -- Charles de Gaulle...