What happened on July 26, 1987

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New York City's Little Bookshops Reflect a Variety of Character ROLAINE HOCHSTEIN, Hochstein is a Tenafly, N.J., free-lance writer .
Wild West Is Alive in West Germany FRANK RILEY, Riley is travel columnist for Los Angeles magazine and a regular contributor to this section
United Airlines Flies the Turbulent Asian Skies PETER S. GREENBERG, Greenberg is a Los Angeles free-lance writer
When the Smoke Cleared, the Boys Had Become Gentlemen BOB O'SULLIVAN, O'Sullivan is a Canoga Park free-lance writer.
Agencies That Push Some Products TONI TAYLOR, Taylor, an authority on the travel industry, lives in Los Angeles
A Weekend Brushoff JUDITH MORGAN, Morgan, of La Jolla, is a nationally known magazine and newspaper writer
B&B in NYC
Rattle on the QE2
Appreciates Columns
Experienced Travelers
What's a Rip-off?
Canada's Capital City Offers You Waves of Tulips With Love BEVERLY BEYER and ED RABEY, Beyer and Rabey are Los Angeles travel writers .
High Kicks in Athens Stan Delapane, Delaplane is a San Francisco Chronicle columnist
Free Hawaii Coupons With Auto Rentals JACK ADLER
Tea at the Ritz
Champions Fly at Reno on a Wing and a Prayer JIM LEVEQUE, Leveque is a Lindenwold, N.J., free-lance writer.
It's Anchors Aweigh for Santa Catalina Island MICHELE GRIMM and TOM GRIMM, The Grimms of Laguna Beach are authors of "Away for the Weekend," a travel guide to Southern California.
Searching for That Offbeat Sunset SHIRLEY SLATER and HARRY BASCH, Slater and Basch are Los Angeles free-lance writers
Big Sky Country Has Man-Made Wonders, Too SAM HALL KAPLAN, T imes Design Critic
Sitting Safely in Saunas DR. KARL NEUMANN, Neumann is a Forest Hills, N.Y., pediatrician who writes on travel-related matters
Bicycle Tour Pioneer
Washington's San Juan Islands JERRY HULSE, Times Travel Editor
Holiday Cruising to the Caribbean, South America HANK KOVELL, Kovell is a veteran journalist in seniors' interests.
Basel Offers Pay-By-Age Hotel Plan LUCY IZON, Izon is a Canadian travel journalist covering youth budget routes.
A Lake Built by a Dam HORACE SUTTON, Sutton is a New York City syndicated travel columnist
Shows Free and There's No Pressure to Buy at Paris Fashion Houses JENNIFER MERIN, Merin is a New York City free-lance writer.

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OPINION

Pool Painting
Petals in the Soup
Shultz's View
The Elites Are Slipping
Democrats Finesse a New Way to Lose Votes Kevin Phillips, Kevin Phillips is publisher of American Political Report and Business and Public Affairs Fortnightly
Middle America Knows the Score : Critics Smirk, but Millions See Their Own Values in the Norths ROBERT COLES, Robert Coles is a child psychiatrist who teaches at Harvard University. He is the author of "The Moral Life of Children" and "The Political Life of Children," both published by Atlantic Monthly Press.
Honesty
Miniskirts
Reflagging of Oil Tankers
Health Care Must Be a Priority in Solving the Problem of Homelessness Michael R. Cousineau, Michael R. Cousineau is executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Health Care Project
Phone Surcharge
Graffiti
Why the Rush to Give Up on Sanctions? HOWARD E. WOLPE, Howard E. Wolpe (D-Mich.) is the chairman of the Africa subcommittee of the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
Moscow Plays a Different Tune in Asia, Pacific Richard N. Haass, Richard N. Haass is on the faculty of Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.
A Scholarship Out of the Barrio, a Ticket to Burn-Out RICHARD RODRIGUEZ, Richard Rodriguez, a graduate of Stanford, Columbia and UC Berkeley, is associate editor of Pacific News Service. His latest book, "The Protestant Reformation," will be published by Viking.
Reflagging of Oil Tankers
Reckoning With a New Soviet Union Arthur Macy Cox, Arthur Macy Cox, secretary of the American Committee on U.S.-Soviet Relations, served as a diplomat and CIA official involved with Soviet affairs for 40 years.
Reflagging of Oil Tankers
Texas Does It Slowly
Farrakhan and the First
Reflagging of Oil Tankers
Seeing Red: U.S. Policy in Latin America Wayne S. Smith, Wayne S. Smith is author of "The Closest of Enemies: A Personal and Diplomatic Account of the Castro Years" (W.W. Norton).
Reflagging of Oil Tankers
Reflagging of Oil Tankers
Mayor Bradley's Effectiveness
Reflagging of Oil Tankers
Some Familiar Echoes in Financing of Angola Rebels Steven Mufson, Steven Mufson, who reported on South Africa for Business Week, was recently expelled from that country

BUSINESS

REAL ESTATE

What happened on July 26, 1987

ENTERTAINMENT

ALL-STAR PLAYERS : A Scouting Report on 50 of the Town's Top Agents : OLD GUARD : Talk about hustle, "Broadway Danny Rose," move over. MICHAEL CIEPLY

Life With Lucie And Arthur E llen Farley

Mtv La Bamba Party--adman's Coup PATRICK GOLDSTEIN

Love & Hate In Duesseldorf WILLIAM WILSON

The Quest For Agent Faces DAVID FOX

Queen Of Solitude CHRIS WILLMAN

Losing His Bite Pat H. Broeske

Hills Are Alive With Plays JANICE ARKATOV

Daltrey And The Who--who Knows? DENNIS HUNT

A New Role For Theater: 'They Are Us' DAN SULLIVAN

Answers PATRICK GOLDSTEIN

Losing His Bite Charles A. Johnson

* * * * Great Balls of Fire * * * Good Vibrations * * Maybe Baby * Running on Empty : : 'BABBLE'--A BAZOOKA STEVE HOCHMAN

A Taste Of Thai Jane Greenstein

PLISETSKAYA : In America, the Bolshoi's Outspoken Individualist Lives Up to Her Reputation ROBERT GRESKOVIC

* * * * Great Balls of Fire * * * Good Vibrations * * Maybe Baby * Running on Empty : : HOOTER MISS DUNCAN STRAUSS

* * * * Great Balls of Fire * * * Good Vibrations * * Maybe Baby * Running on Empty : : VERLAINE'S VISIONS RICHARD CROMELIN

Check 'em Out: From Elvis To L.l. Cool J ROBERT HILBURN

When Kings Collide Pat H. Broeske

* * * * Great Balls of Fire * * * Good Vibrations * * Maybe Baby * Running on Empty : : 10,000 MANIACS = ONE INSPIRED BAND ROBERT HILBURN

The Gardens Tour RUTH REICHL

A Howling Failure Leonard Klady

Dr. Billy Taylor Never Rests LEONARD FEATHER

SAY GOOD NIGHT TO NBC RADIO, GRACIE : A Golden Era Spanning 60 Years Has Come to a 'Routine' Close JAY SHARBUTT

Kubrick's Cinematic Eye Is Brilliantly Negative MICHAEL WILMINGTON

Reclaiming The Darker Side Of Bond CHARLES CHAMPLIN

Moca To Host Exhibit Of Murray Paintings ZAN DUBIN

RESTAURATEUR DeMORI EXITS NAMESAKE SILVIO'S COLMAN ANDREWS

007: Bonding Fact And Fiction LEONARD KLADY

The Moscow Sessions HERBERT GLASS

The Replacements--still Standing On The Ledge CHRIS WILLMAN

Perkins Palace May Rise Again JEFF SPURRIER and STEVE HOCHMAN

Ruthless Money Leonard Klady

POWER PLAYERS : Hollywood's Love-Hate Relationship With Agents PAUL ROSENFIELD

* * * * Great Balls of Fire * * * Good Vibrations * * Maybe Baby * Running on Empty : : BOCEPHUS RELAXED RANDY LEWIS

Tour Of Duty Pat H. Broeske

The Offal Truth BILL STERN, Stern, a Los Angeles food writer, now spends half his time in Europe, where he oversees the dubbing of American films into four languages

The Book On John Chelew DUNCAN STRAUSS

BOOKS

Breaking the Glass Ceiling: CAN WOMEN REACH THE TOP OF AMERICA'S LARGEST CORPORATIONS? by Ann M. Morrison, Randall P. White, Ellen Van Velsor and the Center for Creative Leadership (Addison-Wesley: $15.95; 229 pp.) Susan Warfel, Warfel is a business reporter for Investor's Daily in Los Angeles.

Manufacturing Matters: THE MYTH OF THE POST-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMY by Stephen S. Cohen and John Zysman (Basic: $19.95; 320 pp.) James Risen, Risen is the Detroit bureau chief for The Times. He writes frequently about American manufacturing

Time Wars: THE PRIMARY CONFLICT IN HUMAN HISTORY by Jeremy Rifkin (Holt: $18.95; 263 pp.) John Balzar, Balzar is a Times staff writer. His most recent article on the subject of time was published in the journal of the Precision Measurements Assn.

Letters to Ms., 1972-1987 edited by Mary Thom; introduction by Gloria Steinem (Holt: $18.95; 264 pp.) Mary Ellen Donovan, Donovan is co-author of "Women and Self-Esteem" (Penquin)

Who Wrote the Bible?by Richard Elliott Friedman (Summit: $16.95; 244 pp.) James A. Sanders, Sanders is author of "From Sacred Story to Sacred Text" (Fortress, 1987) and president of the Ancient Biblical Manuscript Center, Claremont

Jasmin's Witch by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie; translated by Brian Pearce : (George Braziller: $17.95; 222 pp., illustrated) Jeffrey B. Russell, Russell, professor of history at the University of California at Santa Barbara, is the author of six books on witchcraft and diabology.

August Picks Are Sturdy Bunch KAREN STABINER

NONFICTION : HICKORY CURED by Douglas C. Jones (Holt: $16.95; 224 pp., illustrated). C.A. Wedlan

CHASING THE MOON TO CHINA by Virginia Overton McLean (Redbird: $15.95; 35 pp., illustrated). LINDA MATHEWS

Deer Fence Wang Wei

Puss in Boots by Ed McBain (Holt: $15.95; 248 pp.) Skip Cooley Pedigo, Pedigo is a former magazine editor who is currently an owner/partner in a Newport Beach public relations agency

The Supercomputer Era by Sidney Karin and Norris Parker Smith (Harcourt Brace Jovanovich: $19.95; 336 pp., illustrated) Ken Fermoyle, Fermoyle, a writer/editor in the aerospace industry, contributes to a variety of computer publications and is a desk-top publishing consultant.

Traitors & Heroes A Lawyer's Memoir by Martin Garbus (Atheneum: $19.95; 352 pp.) William Blum, Blum is a Los Angeles lawyer who has lectured and written widely on constitutional issues.

NONFICTION : THE SEARCH FOR OMM SETY by Jonathan Cott (Doubleday: $17.95; 236 pp., illustrated). Dick Roraback

Hemingway The Life and the Work by Kenneth S. Lynn (Simon & Schuster: $24.95; 659 pp.) Richard Eder

Conducting Bodies by Claude Simon; translated from the French by Helen R. Lane (Grove: $7.95, paperback; 192 pp.) Thomas Christensen, Christensen, an editor with North Point Press, has translated works from French and Spanish, including Julio Cortazar's "Around the Day in Eighty Worlds."

Sex and Power by Donald Meyer (Wesleyan University: $35; 640 pp.) Jane S. Jaquette, Jaquette is professor of political scinece and director of the Core Program in the Liberal Arts, Occidental College, she is also chair of women's studies and is working on a book on women and power.

Why People Buy by John O'Shaughnessy (Oxford University: $19.95; 207 pp.) Daniel Wiener, Wiener is a practicing psychologist, clinical professor and author of "Albert Ellis: Passionate Skeptic," to be published by Praeger in spring, 1988

Patriot Games by Tom Clancy (Putnam's: $19.95; 540 pp.) Arend Flick, Flick is a lecturer in English at UC Santa Barbara

NONFICTION : MODERN DRAMATISTS: BERTOLT BRECHT by Ronald Spiers (St. Martin's: $19.95; 190 pp., illustrated). : MODERN DRAMATISTS: TENNESSEE WILLIAMS by Roger Boxill (St. Martin's: $19.95; 186 pp., illustrated). Lionel Rolfe

To the Sargasso Sea by William McPherson (Simon & Schuster: $18.95; 491 pp.) John Rechy, Rechy teaches fiction in the master's degree program at USC. His next novel, "Marilyn's Daughter," is forthcoming from Carroll & Graf.

Homage to Barcelona, the City and Its Art 1888-1936;introduction by Marilyn McCully (Thames & Hudson: $22.50; 328 pp.) Hugh Thomas, Thomas is an English historian. The most recent edition of his history of the Spanish Civil War was published in 1986 by Harper & Row

Gay Spirit: Myth and Meaning by Mark Thompson (St. Martin's: $18.95; 320 pp.) David Curzon, Curzon's most recent novel is "The World Can Break Your Heart" (Knights Press)

Long Beach and Los Angeles: A TALE OF TWO PORTS by Charles F. Queenan and Stephen Sato (Windsor: $24.95; 208 pp. illustrated) : The Southern Pacific, 1901-1985by Don Hofsommer (Texas A & M University: $44.50; 373 pp. illustrated) Martin Ridge, Ridge is co-author of "Westward Expansion" (Macmillan)

MAGAZINE

L.A.'S ROYAL ROMANCE : Club Owner Mario Oliver Is Princess Stephanie's New, Local Love. But Can He Play the Palace? NIKKI FINKE, Nikki Finke is a Times staff writer.

Controversy at the Cosmetics Counter : Beauty Firms and the FDA Debate How Anti-Aging Products Can Legally Be Marketed PADDY CALISTRO

The 24th Ward--a Dossier JOEL KOTKIN and YORIKO KISHIMOTO

The Japanese Are Banking on Los Angeles : And It Means You May Never Use An American Bank Again JOEL KOTKIN and YORIKO KISHIMOTO, Joel Kotkin is West Coast editor of Inc. magazine. Yoriko Kishimoto is managing partner of Japan Pacific Associates, Palo Alto.

The Graduate : A Diploma, a Report Card, a Yellowed Newspaper Column . . . Clues to Whatever Became of Beulah Jeannette Brode, Class of '15 Jack Smith

Botanically Speaking : A Tour of the New and Rare Collections of Southern California's Lesser-Known Botanic Gardens ROBERT SMAUS, Robert Smaus is an associate editor of the Los Angeles Times Magazine.

Aerial Protection or Just High-Flying Harassment? Ellen Alperstein

Del Mar: The Short Form Linden Gross

Sky Cops : Hovering at 500 Feet, Searchlights Glaring, Airborne Lawmen Have Their Own Perspective on Crime ELLEN ALPERSTEIN, Ellen Alperstein is a writer and editor based in Santa Monica.

Working the Other Side of the Track : Del Mar's Gates Open Wednesday. Here, a Tale From the Inside. MICHAEL FESSIER JR., Michael Fessier Jr. is a Southern California writer.

Liquid Fire : Brandy, Grappa, Aquavit and Cognac, Those Crystalline Distillations Called 'Waters of Life' ROBERT LAWRENCE BALZER

Quintessence of Kitsch : Harry Segil Leads L.A.'s '50s Design Revival Bevis Hillier

FOOD : Bistro With a California Accent : Bistango Chef Dale Payne Celebrates the French Spirit ROSE DOSTI, Rose Dosti is a Times staff writer.

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