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Bill Bradley has usually had the good fortune to be underestimated. As a basketball player, he was widely regarded as too short and too slow, yet he wound up in the Hall of Fame. As a politician, he is often dismissed as too plodding and too pure. Yet this week, if as expected the Senate passes a < radical and sweeping overhaul of the tax system, Bradley will be able to take pride in the fact that, as he laconically notes, "I kind of suggested the idea...
Romance? Aline Griffith, 63, recruited into the OSS while in college and ; sent to Spain as a code clerk, wound up marrying a Spanish grandee to become the Countess of Romanones. Festooned with diamonds and emeralds, she smiled knowingly as she reminisced: "I hate to say it, but war is fun." High times? Eugene Sherman was 19 and en route to a guerrilla base 100 miles from Canton when Yale-trained Psychologist William Morgan, an OSS major, intercepted him. Sherman remembers that the two repaired to a restaurant and drank much too much at a party that ended when Morgan...
From Amy, 200,000 New Yorkers, nine deep in some places, wound up Manhattan's West Side and over the George Washington Bridge to New Jersey. A 50-yd. stretch near Newark threatened to be the first gap, but at the last minute people in line stopped a commuter bus; the 40-plus passengers all cheerfully piled out to fill the hole. The first breaks developed in Pennsylvania, but the line wound south to Washington, where it was routed through the White House. Persuaded at the last minute by his daughter Maureen to take part, President Reagan stood somewhat stiffly...
...swagger of fearless charm, and a rock symphony swells in the parking lot on prom night? "I think he's still trying to be popular at school," says Jon Cryer, who played Duckie, the geeky dervish in Pretty in Pink. "And more power to him. I mean, he wound up marrying a cheerleader (Nancy, his wife of 16 years). And now he's got the Porsche...
...odds with itself last week over the prickly issue of refugees from Central America. In Florida, Perry Rivkind, the district director of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service, said that he would not deport citizens from Nicaragua who seek political asylum in the U.S. In Arizona, the Justice Department wound up its prosecution of eleven church workers accused of smuggling aliens from El Salvador and Guatemala into the U.S. -- even though these illegal immigrants also claimed that they feared persecution in their home countries...