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Once extremely private, Milken has sought to improve his public image by appearing at charitable functions and bidding reporters to "call me Mike." Last year Milken and his wife donated $198.1 million to the family's three charitable foundations, more than a sixfold increase from the previous year. Less than $15 million of these funds was actually disbursed, going to some 200 organizations. The remainder was invested by the foundations. That is perfectly legal, but the California attorney general's office began this month to investigate the Milken foundations' activities for possible irregularities...
Moments later, with his wife Mila and their three eldest children looking on, the Prime Minister declared on national television that Canada had embarked on an era of "openness to the rest of the world." Voters, he said, "have stated with a clear sense of their identity what they want to be and what they want...
...exclusive interview with chief executive officer of RJR Nabisco, Ross Johnson, accompanies the main story. Senior correspondent Frederick Ungeheuer and his wife were about to sit down to Thanksgiving dinner with 20 friends in Roxbury, Conn., when he received word that Johnson, who has refused all public comment since launching his takeover bid in mid-October, was ready to talk. Ungeheuer left immediately for Jupiter, Fla., where Johnson was spending a holiday away from the fray, for a one-hour talk about the megadeal. Ungeheuer has met other big dealmakers in his 25 years of covering business for TIME...
British agent Bernard Samson proved himself a good candidate for early retirement in Len Deighton's trilogy Berlin Game, Mexico Set and London Match. Samson's career was not advanced by his wife Fiona's defection to the Soviet Union or by the unreliability of the KGB operative Samson had enticed to the West. And, to top it off, field-wise Bernard found himself ill-suited to maneuvering inside the bureaucracy at London headquarters...
...emergency service to administer an antidote. Cost of the therapy: $1,200 to $2,400 a year. Robert Batts, 40, a former policeman in Hull, Mass., who became impotent nine years ago after fracturing his back while breaking up a fight, is enthusiastic about the injections. So is his wife Donna, who sometimes signals her mood with the question, "Have you had your shot today...