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...ambassadors enjoy almost instant backup from Washington, which sometimes cuts into their freedom of action but also relieves them of weighty decision-making beyond their official competence. More often than an ambassador may like, someone senior to him (including the Secretary) may jet practically into his embassy's backyard. And when he picks up his phone, that voice on the other end may come across in a familiar Texas drawl...
...them on less than $2,000 a year, and I'm proud of it. You ain't poor until your spirit goes, and I think it goes if you keep on taking handouts." One impoverished ex-miner in Pennsylvania has a freezer loaded with vegetables from his backyard garden-and a shotgun in the kitchen to pepper the pants of any welfare worker who wants to check up on just how much he possesses...
...York, only very much better," says one admirer. "Greenwich Village has gotten too garish. Old Town is less jammed together and touristy. I think artists really live there." So do lawyers, doctors, publishers, ad men and all manner of confirmed city dwellers who want a bit of backyard and individuality along with the common comforts of home...
...Goodbye Backyards. Manry had dreamed of sailing the Atlantic ever since he first heard about open-ocean sailing as a small boy in India, where his father was a Presbyterian missionary. He bought the 36-year-old Tinker-belle six years ago for $250, completely rebuilt her, taught himself navigation, and practiced long-distance sailing on Lake Erie. "There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard," he told his wife...
...task. A new air of confidence pervaded the week's decisions, a new professionalism was apparent as American forces deployed from the Delta to Danang on air strikes and ambushes, perimeter sweeps and bold airborne swoops. No longer were the Americans at Bien Hoa merely probing their own backyard. Last week, in little more than 24 hours, a full brigade was airlifted 250 miles to the Central Highlands to play a critical role in the relief of beleaguered Due Co (see below). Even as 2,800 new U.S. marines arrived in the enclaves along the Vietnamese coast, other marines...