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...England select stars Mike Gibbs (scrum-half), Nathan Koenig (fullback) and Jon Diorio (reserve prop) lead the long list of returnees from last year's 10-10-2 (4-5 fall, 6-5-2 spring) squad...
...than just a cozy little nest in the suburbs. The Reids' Colonial-style house has 15 rooms, including four bedrooms, a library and an exercise center. Stereo music can be piped into each room, and, using infrared remote-control devices, the family can operate the sound system and even select a track on a compact disc from any part of the house. The home also has 4 1/2 baths, six fireplaces and a high-tech exterior lighting system. But the really impressive part of the house is its price...
...vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board and onetime chairman of the Federal Home Loan Bank Board. Gerald Parsky, a Los Angeles lawyer who served as Assistant Treasury Secretary under Simon, is his old boss's general partner and contributes his initials to the company's anagrammatic name. A select group of international investors, including Italy's Fiat-making Agnelli family, has pledged $225 million in capital...
America's yachting heyday was in the early 20th century, when wealthy industrialists competed in creating elaborate waterborne palaces. Over the years, buying, building and chartering of yachts remained small and select, and in the late '70s, business hit bottom. Today the number of American-owned jumbos, over 100 ft. from stem to stern, is increasing from 80 in 1986 to 129, with the launch of 49 new yachts now under construction. More remarkable is that 33 of these yachts will be products of U.S. yards, rather than foreign competitors. Jumbo yachts sport a hefty price tag, ranging from...
...overnight the city became a symbol of the South's estrangement from the rest of the nation. Last week, 30 years later almost to the day, Little Rock evoked a radically different image: as a symbol of the kingmaker role that the South hopes to play in the selection of the next President. Eight candidates (six Democrats and two Republicans) traveled to the Arkansas capital to address the Southern Legislative Conference, a convocation of 1,600 legislators from 15 states. This was merely the opening rehearsal for the real show: Mega-Tuesday, coming next March 8, when voters...