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...Manhattan's Upper East Side. His Australian father had been a wildcat oilman in Texas until the 1929 Crash wiped him out. Later he fetched up as host of a Proctor & Gamble radio show, Captain Tim Healy's Stamp Club, on NBC. He had a short fuse and a robust disregard for social conventions and was a devout Catholic...
There is already evidence that the KGB is increasing, not cutting back, its espionage activity. Says Webster: "We see signs that the Soviets are more aggressive, more robust; there are more pitches being made." He adds that there is a greater Soviet effort to recruit agents both in the U.S. and in Europe. One recent Soviet defector has disclosed that the KGB's Department T, which specializes in industrial espionage, illicitly gathered 25,000 technical documents and 4,000 pieces of machinery from 1984 to 1988. Several African intelligence services are cooperating with the KGB in their countries in attempts...
OTHER PEOPLE'S MONEY. The robust, raunchily funny depiction of a hostile corporate takeover drew the limo-and-luxury investment bankers off-Broadway and is now on tour, currently in Chicago. If, in the changed economy, this is no longer a bulletin from the front, it's at least an instructive look back in anger...
...drawn the $2 million advance sale. Thus the crucial question is whether Turner, who debuted on Broadway in the lighthearted Gemini in 1978 and has not been back since, can handle the role. The answer is an emphatic yes. What's more, the production around her is a robust yet nuanced reading of the play...
...many respects, the erosion of the yen is driven by emotion rather than reality, since Japan's economy is still growing at a robust rate of about 4.5%. "It's really psychology, running in just the opposite direction of the underlying economic forces," says C. Fred Bergsten, director of Washington's Institute for International Economics. To prop up the yen, the Bank of Japan first tried intervening in foreign-exchange markets, spending $10 billion, or 17% of the country's currency reserves, to buy yen and dump dollars. Since that proved futile, the central bank last week boosted...