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...Thursday, Aug. 2, the President showed an active interest in his plans. He asked for some "oldfashioned blackberry juice." Towards evening the President seemed in good health. Mrs. Harding was reading aloud. Without warning a tremor shook his frame and he collapsed. Physicians announced that the President had died of cerebral apoplexy at 7:30 p. m., Pacific time...
Some of the lobbyists laughed aloud, but many greeted the remark with stony silence. Afterward, Panel Member Donald C. Alexander, a former Internal Revenue Service commissioner, called Watt's remark "inappropriate and irrelevant. Since I can't fit into the category dealing with religion, and I'm not black and not a woman, that leaves only one group, and I don't feel I should be left one group, and I don't feel I should be left out. I think the Secretary might have thought I'm mentally handicapped...
...visit, Weinberger wished aloud that Congress would permit the Administration to send more military assistance to the troubled Central American isthmus. Said Weinberger: "What is important is a steady supply of aid, and being able to plan ahead." He also expressed a wish to return to the area. Doubtless, if Big Pine II proceeds according to schedule, Weinberger will have that chance...
...successful Marxist revolutions in the small states of the isthmus could pull Mexico to the left, confronting the U.S. with a populous (75 million) enemy along a 2,000-mile, at present, undefended border. It is not only in Washington that this thought crops up. Soviet officials have mused aloud about how much easier their worldwide competition with the U.S. would be if American energies were diverted by a Western Hemisphere analogy to the threat the U.S.S.R. faces along its own border with a hostile China...
...eight stylishly dressed jurists huddled around a stark, white, rectangular table were sifting through endless snippets of yarn and swatch upon swatch of silk, rayon and linen. "We need to soften the yellow to almost a blond yellow," one mulled aloud, squinting at several fabric squares. A green swatch was rejected by one woman with a disapproving, "That's too much of a bathroom tile shade." Another tan square drew the comment, "Good. It doesn't have any shine, like a brown paper bag." It seemed for a time that no decisions would be reached, but after...