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...girl who died of lockjaw? That she was tightlipped. And tongue-tied. That she loved Mao and Che, and brown rice sprinkled with soybeans and sunflower seeds. And me. She never told me what the order was, which somehow still bugs me. Family tradition was always to be numero uno, don't you know...
...early spring we were ready for a trip to the family manse in New Jersey. Myrna and I planned to get married. Behind the great iron gates, everything seemed in order. The gardeners lowered their tommy guns in silent homage to the next numero uno; the killer dogs snarled welcome. Two Congressmen and three mayors walked out of the front door...
...ritual five-minute recitation at midnight from the Little Red Book, she had given up radical politics altogether. I suspect that she would not have survived at all without wheat germ and a Spiro Agnew voodoo doll. Still, it was worth it. Come graduation, I was, once again, numero uno, besieged by offers of $100,000-a-year partnerships from nine Wall Street accounting firms, invited by Melvin Laird to bring cost accounting back to the Pentagon, and asked to lunch at Nedick's by Ralph Nader, who wanted me to find out how much General Motors really makes...
...punch, that after he had been counted out he bounced back to his feet. What did matter to the sellout crowd of 13,000 at Madrid's Sports Palace was that Spain had its first European heavyweight champion in 37 years?and at last Spanish sport had a Numero Uno to lead the nation out of the doldrums of bad bulls and mediocre matadors...
...most widely admired and envied Italian industrialist-the Numero Uno-is Giovanni Agnelli, the head of automaking Fiat. Turin-based Fiat, which has produced four out of every five cars on Italy's roads, has done more than any other Italian firm to shape the country's new affluence at home and influence abroad. "Agnelli has a mythology not unlike President Kennedy's," writes British Journalist Anthony Sampson in The New Europeans. "Clearly his presence fills some kind of psychological...