Word: von
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Lady, it is not so much in a class by itself as the latest addition to a long, groaning shelf. Deaver. Haig. Stockman. Speakes. Regan. Even two Reagan children, Patti and Michael, have written slap-and-yell books about the First Family. And more are on the way. Helene von Damm, once Reagan's personal assistant and later Ambassador to Austria, has reportedly penned something less than a valentine to the First Family, and a new book by former White House Aide Martin Anderson describes Reagan as resembling a "Turkish pasha, passively letting his subjects serve...
...number-one doubles, Kumar and Soni recorded a 7-6 (7-5), 6-2 victory over Ted Von Hoene and Begner, while Engle and Leschly captured a 6-4 triumph in the first set. The second set wasn't even close, as the Crimson duo cruised to a 6-0 triumph...
...Violinist Henryk Szeryng. The Polish-born master, dressed in shirt-sleeves, first listened dispassionately. When she had finished, he walked to his closet, donned a coat and tie and announced, "Now you can say hello to Uncle Henryk." Something similar happened when, at 13, she auditioned for Conductor Herbert von Karajan. After hearing her play a dazzling Bach Chaconne and some elegant Mozart, Karajan said, "We shall do a lot together." And they have, including many concerts and recordings of such staples as the Beethoven and Brahms concertos. "Playing with Karajan, there is an experience of sound...
...likelihood of some kind of penalty. The goal is to cut down on the flow of drugs into the country by curtailing domestic consumption. "If people know they will be arrested for bringing a gram of coke into this country, they will think twice," says U.S. Customs Commissioner William von Raab...
...deposits, analyzing muscle structures and creating special effects for Hollywood films. With the spread of supercomputer networks, high-speed computing power is available to anyone with a personal computer and a telephone hookup. "The world will never be the same," says Doyle Knight, director of the John von Neumann National Computer Center in Princeton, N.J. "Soon every industry, every science, every walk of life will in some way be touched by supercomputing...