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...case puts out of commission one of the main characters in Wall Street's takeover whirl. Jefferies' prosperous firm, which he started in 1962, specializes in trading huge blocks of stock outside the New York and American exchanges. His deals have often helped corporate takeover artists to amass their holdings. Last week Jefferies, 56, resigned as chairman of his company, agreed to stay out of the securities business for at least five years and said he would plead guilty to two felony counts that could bring him as much as ten years in prison. Jefferies was the only individual...
Most women can only dream of leading a life as glamorous as hers, but these days Nastassja Kinski's dearest wish is to be an ordinary mom. Once the darling of the jet-set whirl, the lissome actress has been living quietly near Geneva with Ibrahim Moussa, her husband of 1 1/2 years, and their two children, Aljosha, 2, and Sonia Leila, 3 months. Kinski has no plans to resume her movie career for the time being. Instead, she watches over her children, occasionally flying to Rome, where Moussa is co-producing a 90-min. made-for- TV movie directed...
...restaurants are featuring meals from the plan's menu; grocery stores are posting signs touting approved fruits, vegetables and other foods. So popular has the plan become that an estimated 70,000 residents, about 10% of the city's population, are now rotating feverishly, caught up in a mad whirl to "Melt-a-Million" pounds collectively by mid-May. They are hoping to create a whole new category for the Guinness Book of World Records...
Kerri Green, as a transfer student from another school, is the fair maiden. Initially, she is drawn into a summer friendship with Lucas, sharing his love of classical music and biological oddities. But, alas, she becomes distant as she is caught up in the whirl of high school activities once classes begin...
...infamous Hurricane Gloria last week proved far more than attention getting. They were downright intimidating. Bringing accounts of fiendish 150-m.p.h. winds--and coming three weeks after capricious Elena had given the Gulf Coast states an ugly bashing--the National Hurricane Center warnings made plain that Gloria might whirl and dance up the heavily populated East Coast like some catastrophic dervish...