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...being unable to best ABC's Good Morning America, NBC's Today retook the morning ratings lead for two weeks. Last week should turn out to be the third in a row, since Today pulled off something of a programming miracle. Responding to the network's shrewdly written (in Polish) request, Pope John Paul II gave NBC extraordinary, although not unprecedented, access to the Vatican as part of the show's week of live broadcasts from Rome. The Pope extended a personal welcome to the NBC crew at his general audience and expressed his hope that the media exposure...
...stylemakers offer to shape, polish and crease almost all aspects of a person to achieve success in the corridors of corporate power. Emily Cho of New York City, who wrote Looking, Working, Living Terrific 24 Hours a Day, is one of the industry's top consultants. She specializes in helping women assemble a complete business wardrobe...
...fighters" are defeated, their countries will be irrevocably lost behind an Iron Curtain of Soviet domination. And democratic tradition, said the President, because to support "our brothers" in revolution is to continue--"in Afghanistan, in Ethiopia, Cambodia, Angola . . . (and) Nicaragua"--200 years of American support for "Simon Bolivar . . . the Polish patriots, the French Resistance and others seeking freedom...
...post as Secretary of the Treasury. In the White House, Baker often counseled compromise. Regan conceives his job to be one of making sure that the President's will literally becomes law. To see that this gets done the old Marine lieutenant colonel is shaping a hierarchical, spit-and-polish organization...
...screen was silver in her day, and she gave it unforgettable polish and shine. Now Ava Gardner, 62, is bringing her glow to the phosphors of the TV screen for the first time. In three weeks Gardner will star on NBC's A.D., a Christians vs. lions mini-series in which she plays Agrippina, Nero's manipulative mother. Last week brought the start of her seven-episode stint on Knots Landing, in which she portrays the wealthy Ruth Sumner, another manipulative mother and one of those prime-time soap characters like J.R. and Alexis who manage to drub everyone...