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...When he is in Beverly Hills he does the food shopping, to the frustration of his maid Bertha Kanafil, and cooks often ("I've ruined a lot of good food," he admits). He is apt to spend four nights a week with his girlfriend Kathleen Carey, 33, a slight, pretty blond woman who works in the music business signing songwriters for Warner Bros. Music. "She has taught me that there's a life after movies," he says...
...some months, Carter was denied even the minimal daily briefing reports that are provided to a hundred or so top officials in the Government. He endured it for a while and then asked his former press secretary, Jody Powell, to complain. After Powell threatened to go public with the slight, the briefing papers began arriving in Plains...
When Claus von Billow appeared in Newport, R.I., last week to hear himself sentenced to 30 years in prison, he had a new lawyer on his team, a slight, bespectacled fellow with reddish brown, frizzy hair, seen by some as a cross between Woody Allen and Bozo the Clown. But Von Bülow knows that Alan Dershowitz, 43, is no joke. He got the Harvard law professor out of bed at 7 a.m. six weeks ago to ask him to handle his appeal. Why Dershowitz? To be sure, he is smart, energetic and an expert in criminal...
...uncertain effect on Reagan. Put on the defensive by a debate on nuclear war that it neither expected nor welcomed, the Administration has been forced to modify the tone, and to a lesser extent the substance, of the approach to arms talks that it would probably have preferred. Several slight substantive modifications can probably be attributed to Reagan's desire to counter the negative imagery which has portrayed him as less interested in negotiations than in preparing for an "inevitable" Armageddon. Examples include his promulgation of the "zero option" in Europe over some internal Administration opposition, and the fact that...
...point, there seemed to be only a $3 billion difference between the Republicans and Democrats on spending for social programs. Reagan argued that this margin was slight. "It may not seem like a lot of money, Mr. President," grumbled Boiling, "but it means a lot in terms of human suffering." Erupted an angry Reagan: "My program hasn't hurt anybody. No one has been thrown out in the snow...