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...rambling house, Paulson likes to take his children walking to see woodchucks, mallards, chipmunks and an occasional fox. They feed pheasant on their lawn. The Paulsons attend church ten minutes away in downtown Minneapolis, and in the summers vacation on the thickly wooded shores of sparkling, uncrowded Gull Lake, 2?? hours north of the Twin Cities. "I feel fortunate," says Paulson, "that we can still taste the things that 50 years ago people took for granted...
...Washington, the first glamour event of the week, a "Salute to the States," opened at the Kennedy Center. It was aimed at the nation's Governors-40 of whom showed up. To accommodate the almost 5,000 other guests-including Pat Nixon, daughter Julie, and Mamie Eisenhower-a 2??hr, show ran simultaneously in two separate halls. Eminent emcees Frank Sinatra and Bob Hope scrambled on and off stages in an admirable attempt to provide equal time to all. Breaking out of his retirement once more, Sinatra came up singing Fly Me to the Moon, while Hope kept up patter...
...people who gave her support when she needed it. Two years ago, Beverly was approached with flattering offers by a top-ranking New York manager?the same manager who, a decade earlier, had kept her cooling her heels in his outer office for 2?? hours before telling her he could not use her. Now Beverly cut him off with one clean stroke. "I'm not interested in working with anybody." she said, "who keeps a singer waiting 2?? hours...
...billion in this year's first half. Workers have won many extortionate wage raises?labor costs have been rising more than 7% annually?but since 1968 the real weekly earnings of the American wage earner have inched up from an average $90.67 to only $91.96. In the past 2?? years alone, inflation has cut the value of the dollar by 12¢ and the once-prized greenback is now the weakest major currency in the world...
...Adviser Henry Kissinger was understated, underpublicized and played with such casual routine that the press, as well as other interested observers, were all but lulled to sleep. As Kissinger moved from Saigon to Thailand to India, the reporters who greeted him had little to write home about. So the 2?? days that Kissinger was missing and presumed ill in Pakistan raised scarcely an eyebrow...