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...selling power of the book. Last week Montgomery Ward President Bernard Brennan announced that the last catalog will be mailed to its 5 million recipients in December. Said he: "It has a great history, but times have changed." Now Sears, Ward's rival since 1894, will have the oldest general merchandise catalog...
Although Gorbachev, 54, was the youngest man sitting at the round conference table (Bulgaria's President Todor Zhivkov, 74, was the oldest), he was clearly first among equals in a group that exists largely to endorse Moscow's foreign policy and buffer the Soviet Union's western flank. The military bands and effusive bear hugs, however, could not mask the fact that the Sofia summit resulted in little more than Kremlin posturing in advance of Gorbachev's November meeting with Ronald Reagan in Geneva. A 15-page declaration blamed the U.S. for aggravating the arms race and piously declared that...
...cable-news channel asked Coulter to audition for a spot as a commentator. She appeared on MSNBC its first day and quickly became one of its most loved and hated contributors. A few months later, she began writing for Human Events, among the oldest conservative publications in the country. (Coulter jokes in How to Talk to a Liberal that the journal "had to break a half-century 'no girls' rule to hire me.") In 1998, John Kennedy Jr. asked her to write a regular column for George...
Besides having a terrific wineshop, Breuer also offers the town's best digs. The Rüdesheimer Schloss is an 18th century hotel in the middle of the oldest part of town and features Internet access, excellent cuisine and a first-rate wine list. The oldest vintage dates back to 1704 (yours for a mere $3,227). More reasonable was a $36 bottle of 1989 Breuer Riesling from the Bischofberg vineyard. As I swirled my glass and dipped crusts of dense rye bread into my Riesling-and-cheese soup, an oompah band pounded in the distance--a perfect German winery experience...
...Bethesda Naval Hospital for a week to ten days of postoperative recuperation after that. Even after he returned to the White House, it might take as long as two months for him to regain his full strength, and there would be continuing concern about the health of the oldest man ever to occupy the Oval Office...