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Serious students of Middle Eastern affairs dismiss Erdman's scenario as wildly improbable, but his book is still being bought by many people who do not ordinarily purchase thrillers. Known readers include many of the corporate executives who attended the Time Inc. Energy Conference in Williamsburg, Va.; Saudi Arabian Minister of Industry and Electricity Ghazi Al-Qusaibi ("I thought it was fun reading, but I certainly don't take it seriously"); and some diplomats at the Iranian embassy in Washington. The book is banned in Iran itself, but Western visitors keep being asked by Iranian friends to bring...
...management. If you vote for me, I'll make the union great again." Having delivered that pitch, Harry Patrick, one of three candidates for president of the United Mine Workers, wipes the sweat from his brow and circles the spartan bathhouse of the Eccles mine near Beckley, W. Va., looking for another hand to shake. The miners, encrusted with coal dust and bathed in the harsh glare of mercury-vapor lamps, eye him as they change shifts at midnight. "Don't make no difference who gets elected," grumbles Jim Pavlik after Patrick passes by. "They all promise...
Burford, now 47, still lives with his wife Fern in a subdivision house in Elkins, W. Va., but is planning a six-bedroom chalet at Snowshoe, a big new ski resort near by. He owns that...
...real estate agent in the county. A bachelor, he inhabits some fancy real estate of his own in Newport Beach and several days a month jets off to wherever sun or snow may beckon. Byers' secret has been to specialize in selling fellow veterans relatively inexpensive homes with VA-guaranteed loans. Says he: "We sell an average of 100 houses a month in the $60,000-and-below market. We make money on volume, not high-priced individual units. We're kind of like McDonald...
Brick mason; Charlottesville, Va...