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...Eddie Murphy, 22. Coming off his Academy Award-winning performance in last year's An Officer and a Gentleman, Gossett is now working on a four-hour TV biography of Egypt's late President Anwar Sadat. The tough bootcamp bearing Gossett picked up during his stint in Officer should come in handy. For Sadat picks up the Egyptian leader's life when he was a junior military officer renowned for his rigid back and fierce determination...
Finnegan at a recent candidate's forum nervously joined in response to a reporters question that he was only a candidate of the "right people." And Kiley, a former deputy mayor under White, has been busy defending a former stint on the CIA and his reliance on Beacon Hill and Back Bay friends for campaign donations...
Carpenter and Cover Writer Claudia Wallis also banish tension with vigorous, twice-weekly squash games. Wallis came to TIME four years ago with credentials that included pre-med studies at Yale (1976) and a stint researching a series of science films...
Norden Laboratories (1982 sales: $148 million) already sells a wide variety of animal pharmaceutical products, including heartworm tablets for dogs and parasite preventives for horses. If the drug company can win Government licensing for the vaccine, it will open up an enormous new market. Cat lovers do not stint when it comes to medical care for their pets, spending about $800 million annually. Says Dr. Joan Arnoldi, president of the American Association of Feline Practitioners: "There is a need for this product. It is an excellent idea for feline fanciers of all sorts and a special boon to breeders...
When she showed up for work as a Chicago prosecutor in 1972, Patricia Bobb fought off a stint in juvenile court, the usual first slot for a woman. Bobb, fresh out of Notre Dame Law School, won assignment to criminal court. She kept on winning: a streak of 22 victories in cases that went to the jury. In 1977 Bobb drew "what we call a heater - a hot first-degree murder that produced a two-month trial and lots of publicity." Lapsing into the trial lawyer's habit of assessing courtroom opportunity, she recalls, "It had every thing, blood...