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There is the trace of the fighter in the face of Donald Regan, the urbane stockbroker polished by the Cambridge Latin School and Harvard. But nevertheless there are the wary eyes, the cleft chin, the crooked nose. It goes even deeper. Inside there are the battle traces from Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Guam and Okinawa. He admits it. "No training for anything except fighting," he says, recalling 1946, when he left the Marines to take on Merrill Lynch. He won that engagement too, rising to the jobs of president in 1968, chairman in 1971. Now he is sitting in the large, sunny...
...people away just for the hell of it." Chief Gates of Los Angeles takes a somewhat broader view. "We've lost a whole generation," he says. "Totally lost. No selfdiscipline. Total indulgence. Drugs. Lack of respect for the law. Lack of respect for values. A whole generation thumbed its nose at everything that was held sacred in this country. America has to take a look at its heart and its soul...
...really bothered to use or learn his first name: Students and teachers alike called him simply "Lippert." Even his parents sent mail to "Lippert." Standing a stocky 5-ft., 8-in., with wispy medium-length blonde hair wire-framed glasses and a long flattened nose he didn't look too unusual. Nor did his soft-spoken voice seem strange except for its eerie detachment...
...that defense! How'd he get those guys to play the same swarming, aggressive, steal-the-game-from-under-your-nose defense he taught at Memphis State...
Pantuzzi: He's been kissing ass so long, he wipes his nose with toilet paper...