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More important, Bush and Gorbachev are men of totally different upbringing, education, habits and turn of mind. Bush loves sports and entertaining friends. Gorbachev is far more formal. Says one U.S. official who studies him closely: "He's not at all stiff, and he's able to make an occasional wisecrack, but he rarely takes his jacket off or puts his feet up." When Ronald Reagan told his patented funny stories, says one American who attended their summits, "Gorbachev would roll his eyes, and you could see him thinking 'Oh, no, not another story!' " The Soviet President enjoys discussing...
...Angeles Times correspondent David Lauter has invented "The Poppy," an award bearing Bush's childhood nickname. It will eventually be bestowed upon the reporter who maintains the lowest ratio of paragraphs published to miles traveled with the President. The home offices may bristle, but competition so far is stiff...
...more immediate concern, should they have a drink while waiting? Perhaps not. After all, a leading contender was known to be Timothy S. Healy, a Jesuit priest. Sure enough, when the door opened, the big, bulky man who entered was wearing a Roman collar. Silence. He walked into the stiff assemblage and said in a gravelly baritone, "Anybody got a light...
...Ulsan 10,000 riot police battled striking shipyard workers. In Seoul 2,400 police arrested union militants at the headquarters of KBS, the national broadcasting network. Workers at several other companies staged brief sympathy strikes. The latest outbreak of labor unrest was a stiff test of the government's new resolve to deal forcefully with strikers to keep South Korea's faltering economy out of trouble...
Americans have bought 55 million copies of the 1952 version, and several million New R.S.V.s should be snapped up this year alone. But the newest U.S. Bible will face stiff competition from other popular texts that use more traditional, noninclusive wording. For example, the New International Version (1978), the Evangelical favorite, has sold as many copies as the old R.S.V. in only one-third as many years. Other competitors include the perennial King James and the "New" King James (1979). What of the old R.S.V.? The National Council of Churches had originally planned to kill off its 1952 version once...