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...President kept the letter, but left open his invitation that Vance reconsider. The Secretary agonized about the decision throughout the week, going over the pros and cons of resignation with Aides Peter Tarnoff and Anthony Lake. Meanwhile, the raid had occurred?and failed...
...mellow" might even be the word. With the exception of upcoming airplane trips, ("I hate flying," he says earnestly. "I just can't believe something that big can fly."), his lack of definite future plans seems not to bother him at all. He hopes to be drafted by the pros again, but says, "I'm not banking on baseball. I'd love to do it, and at this point I just don't have a contingency plan...
...argument over the pros and cons of judicare, there is agreement that too many of the nation's poor still go without legal help. As WVLSP Attorney John Kemp puts it, "The problem is choosing who will get help. It's like being in a lifeboat. We have more people in the water than we have seats in the boat...
...these and other mystics gained Brown's ear, the Governor's political pros resigned, including Finance Chairman Anthony Dougherty and Campaign Chairman Thomas Quinn, one of Brown's most trusted and able aides. "Jerry began to believe he was the founder of a new movement, a messiah of sorts," says one former staffer. "He sat around with these people all hours of the night talking about his role as the only person who could prevent nuclear war. He seemed to lose sight of the fact that a successful political operation calls for organization and money." Says former...
...that man the slow way, working up through the ranks during golfs boom era. The son of a wealthy Kansas City insurance broker, Watson decided to make golf his career before he graduated from Stanford in 1971. By then the PGA had established a qualifying school in which the pros have to survive a hair-raising Shootout before earning the right to compete on the tour. After that they become "rabbits," harried journeymen who must scramble through early morning rounds to qualify for each individual tournament. Freedom from this grind is granted only to those who win a tournament...