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...describes as "a nouveau-riche Jewish ghetto" filled with returned World War II veterans eager to get ahead; he recalls the "sense of identity" he got from that ethnic community and the loss he felt when, at age 13, his parents moved further north to the wealthy and Waspish suburb of Winnetka...
Legal fees are probably Milken's biggest regular expense right now. For a tycoon, he lives a relatively modest life with his wife Lori and three children in a five-bedroom house in the Los Angeles suburb of Encino. When Milken was the most powerful financier in America, a bodyguard drove him to his office by 4:30 a.m. in a limousine. But those days are behind him. Under terms of the settlement, the Government has permanently barred Milken from the securities business. Yet if Milken ever does run a little low, he could always call on his brother Lowell...
...headquarters in Brussels, dealing with the codes and secret signals that masked the classified information of the Western alliance. No one questioned his reliability. Two weeks ago, however, his cover was blown. Acting on a tip from West German intelligence, Belgian police searched Werner's home in a Brussels suburb and found transmitting devices and false- bottomed suitcases, as well as top-secret NATO documents. Werner is suspected of having been a spy since 1969, relaying the workings of NATO and Bonn to his masters in East Berlin...
...represent either of them. Dawley gave Charles a list of four defense attorneys and suggested that he go to a nearby phone booth and call one. Instead, between 9:30 and 10 o'clock that night, Stuart checked into Room 231 of the Sheraton-Tara in Braintree, a Boston suburb. The clerk remembers that he had no luggage, used a credit card and asked for a 4:30 a.m. wake-up call...
...Stuart family seemed an unlikely source for a monster like Charles to spring from. Charles and his siblings grew up in Revere, a blue-collar, predominantly white suburb north of Boston. Charles Sr., an easy, gregarious man, tended bar at a tavern called the Dublin and often served as toastmaster at Knights of Columbus banquets. He had two daughters by his first wife. Charles Jr. was the first of four sons of a second marriage. Always attractive and popular, Charles was never much of a student. He went to Immaculate Conception school, and then Northeastern Metropolitan Regional Vocational in nearby...