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That is the sort of invaluable, fundamental information provided by Harold McGee in his 684-page volume On Food and Cooking: The Science and Lore of the Kitchen (Scribners; $29.95). Gathering data from experiments of others and performing many of his own, McGee has put together an exhaustive account of foods of all sorts with facts on their chemistry and physical properties, translated into correct cooking methods...
...Regan. Later, visiting Reagan in his hospital bed, Regan told him, "Mr. President, you've got to tell George to stop picking on me," before showing Reagan the story and assuring him that there was nothing to it. Regan's joshing approach defused in advance any suspicion that the account might have aroused...
...Florida jury acquitted him on federal charges of embezzling money from a secret military fund that he administered in 1975-78. The Justice Department had accused Collins, 55, of tampering with the interest on $450,000 in U.S. Government money while he transferred the sum from one Swiss bank account to another. The jury rejected the prosecution's contention that the general had pocketed $19,000 in interest for himself...
Collins testified that the account was a CIA spy fund that financed covert operations in Asia. The general said that he personally had made only two withdrawals: a payment of $8,654 to purchase intelligence from an informer and an unspecified sum that went to a clandestine U.S. base at which East bloc weaponry is evaluated. Collins, a much decorated war hero who flew 104 missions over North Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos in 1969-70, had described the fund as "a political time bomb," set to go off if its existence were ever made public. The secret account...
...July 4, 1985, Richard Nixon sits in a low-back armchair, his legs crossed on an ottoman, his hands contributing to his account of the past 40 years of atomic diplomacy by drawing circles in the air, playing an absent piano, shooing away a wrong idea, coming together in an arch or making points in precise order: one, two, three, four. It is shortly after 8 a.m. Two mornings back to back he has been discussing the effects of Hiroshima on the world and on the presidency in his office in a federal building in downtown Manhattan. The building...