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WHAT AILED VINCENT? "I am either a madman or an epileptic," wrote Painter Vincent Van Gogh. Certainly the facts of his life seem to bear him out. In his last years he cut off part of his left ear, drank kerosene, ate paint, and was in and out of a French asylum. In 1890 he shot and killed himself...
Reagan's pace early last week was less frenetic, but it was urgent. He roamed from the Oval Office to the Cabinet Room to the Roosevelt Room, persuading, listening, editing. He breakfasted and lunched and dinnered with friends and adversaries and sent memos and made phone calls and ate an estimated 112 jelly beans. Even as he grew weary in those hours before the speech, he grew more exuberant and certain, bolder and more determined...
Despite the harassment, Jones' stay in the chancellery was fairly comfortable. He exercised daily, voraciously read westerns, science fiction and history and ate "steak, chicken and a heck of a lot of hamburgers," all from the embassy commissary, which was well stocked at the time of the takeover...
Reagan did not arrive late with trumpets and spotlights. He was there as scheduled. He ate dinner, waited his turn behind Senator John Glenn and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger to give his speech, which was nice but not notable, and then slipped out so that he would not paralyze the after-dinner festivities. Nobody was dazzled, but even the loyal opposition felt a little warmth toward the man for displaying such natural dignity...
While Reagan and his guests ate lunch at the Capitol building and marched in the inaugural parade, about 500 protesters gathered at the Elipse, a park across the street from the White House, to hear speeches against racism, the draft, and U.S. support for the military junta in El Salvador...