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...Pen used by J.F.K. to ratify the nuclear-test-ban treaty...
PARIS: Talk about pounding the pavement. Angling for votes to add to his National Front party's surprising 15 percent returns in last Sunday's first round of elections, fiery right-winger Jean-Marie Le Pen found himself instead in a slugfest with some 30 hecklers in the crime-plagued Paris suburb of Mantes-La-Jolie. In the tumult, Le Pen wound up striking one youth who had shoved him and lunging after others in the jeering, egg-hurling crowd. One man who may wish he had been there, sticks and stones in hand, is endangered president Jacques Chirac. With...
...prize catches in Gateway, the iconoclastic Sioux City outfit whose packaging bears the black-and-white markings of a cow's hide but whose burgeoning revenues are 100% filet mignon. Few know or even suspect just how close Pfeiffer came. The contracts were ready, and Waitt had the proverbial pen in hand before he evidently had a cathartic flash and rejected a nearly $7 billion takeover by Compaq. Gateway's current market value is $4.8 billion...
...political mess is another man's teaching aid. As Joseph P. Kennedy II suffered the fallout of his annulment, Father Michael Smith Foster, associate judicial vicar with the court that awarded it, took the opportunity to pen an article for the local Catholic newspaper, the Pilot, in which he addressed 13 "misconceptions" about the practice. No. 4: "Declarations [of nullity] render children illegitimate." This is simply not the case, Foster explained. No. 2: "Declarations cost thousands of dollars." In fact, the fee in Boston is only $450. No. 13: "There are too many declarations granted...
DIED. MIKE ROYKO, 64, caustic Pulitzer-prizewinning columnist who ruled the Windy City from his Page 3 pulpit; after surgery for an aneurysm; in Chicago. From high-society dames to low-down pols (a frequent target was former Mayor Richard J. Daley), no one was safe from Royko's pen, including himself, as he learned when minorities protested his tactless quips. But Royko remained unrepentantly irreverent in his column...