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Harper handed over a 1-in. stack of papers consisting of the title pages, tables of contents and first chapters of documents he had copied, as a kind of sample of what he had to sell. After ascertaining that the KGB would pay handsomely for the actual documents, the Pole invited Harper to the meeting in Warsaw in June...
...office of Law School professor Arthur Miller looks crowded and seems hectic. As he signs a stack of letters behind a desk covered with files, his secretary tells him his vest is being tailored in New York for "Good Morning, America" and that Channel 5 wants to know what his segment for their newscast that night is about. One of two nearby assistants comments that this week's episode of the nationally syndicated "Miller's Court" looks especially good. Commenting on his contributions to several television programs, Miller says "I have to avoid being captured by the medium...
...getting rid of the ball, he may be tossing it to older brother Bob, the starting split end, who has eight receptions so far. Or he might be handing off to tailback Duckworth Grange (3.4 yards per carry) or fullback Richard Jenkins (3.7 yards), neither of whom really stack up to the opening-game status of Crimson rushers Mark Vignali (six yards per carry) and Robert Santiago (seven...
Last week, however, a stack of Carter campaign documents was found by Gergen in his own files, in a section labeled "Afghanistan." They were released by the White House to Washington reporters just two hours before Reagan's press conference, along with the final briefing book presented by the Carter people, Reagan's final briefing book and a few memos. The surprising quantity of the material helped prompt the flurry of questions. Reagan remarked later to aides that he had fumbled his answers about the ethical implications of using an opponent's confidential papers...
...decline in America's smoke stack industries is sparking a boom in books proposing cures. Industrial Renaissance (Basic Books; 194 pages; $19) places the blame for America's ills squarely at management's door. According to William Abernathy and Kim Clark, two Harvard business school professors, and Alan Kantrow, a Harvard Business Review editor, the problems are not due to a sluggish economy, overpriced labor or predatory competition from abroad, but to managers who "view their work through a haze of outdated assumptions and expectations." The book is an expanded version of a controversial 1980 article...