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...along with dozens of Prime Ministers and several potentates, including a few Kings. The Secret Service will airlift the President's bulletproof, armored Lincoln Continental on an Air Force transport from Washington, but foreign dignitaries will have to make do with rented limos. Fugazy, New York's largest limousine purveyor, offers cars equipped with flag holders, but the company reports that only six such autos have been requested. Few heads of state, it seems, are eager to alert terrorists by announcing their presence. Bracketing most official cars are station wagons filled with security agents carrying Uzi submachine guns...
...story of Leonard Stern sounds like something out of Capitalist Times. Son of the founder of Hartz Mountain Industries, Stern, 47, is the chairman of the world's largest purveyor of pet products. Intense and blunt-spoken, he may be worth as much as $1 billion, but only his accountant knows for sure: Stern's company is privately owned and he rarely talks to reporters. Now he will have trouble avoiding them. Last week Stern bought the Village Voice, the crusading, leftish weekly whose brand of political and cultural journalism shaped a generation of underground newspapers...
SEEKING DIVORCE. Joe Frazier, 41, former world heavyweight boxing champion and unretiring purveyor of the smokin' left hook; and Florence Frazier, 42; after 23 years of marriage; in Philadelphia...
Well before his formal accession, Gorbachev and the managers of his image had launched a campaign to present him as someone with whom the West could do business. Horelick predicts that Gorbachev will be a "smooth, persuasive purveyor of antihistamines for our nuclear allergies," that is, proposals in arms control that will appeal to nervous Europeans and perhaps nervous Americans too, while not compromising the objectives of Soviet policy...
...Business School--surely a case of art imitating life imitating art, if ever there was one Ernest Flatford, B-School student with a taste for sentiment and bad prose, is rudely awoken by colleague and rival (and, inexplicably, object of his desire), the ghastly Prudence Tomb (Martha Coffin). Rabid purveyor of the go rich-quick-after-B-School American Drench, Martha, ever the killjoy, nags at Ernest to do his reading between intermittent snatches of an idiotic love duet. Just as we begin to feel at home, the Devil appears once again, in a new guise, armed with a repertoire...