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...from Switzerland when he was one, became convinced of the "inevitability" of America's struggle in Indochina and wanted to play a part. Recalling his graduation from Quantico, he says: "I stood there in my dress whites and cried like a baby when they played The Star-Spangled Banner. I cried out of pride...
...book Eye on Nixon, which chronicled his China travels. The former President was simply recalling how his "Ping Pong diplomacy" with a previous Chinese team nine years ago helped reopen relations between the U.S. and China. The visiting gang of eight presented Nixon with their team banner. He responded with a gift that may result in excess baggage charges on their flight home: autographed copies of the coffee-table tome edited by Daughter Julie Eisenhower and written by former Nixon Speechwriter William Satire. Observed the ex-President of his visitors' abiding interest: "For such a small ball, it packed...
...siders as Economist Arthur Laffer and Consultant Jude Wanniski have been putting the gold bug in politicians' ears for the past several years. Republican Congressman Jack Kemp of New York, co-author of the Kemp-Roth tax-cut bill, says that he plans to take up the gold banner as soon as he has completed his drive to lower taxes. Republican Congressman Ronald Paul of Texas and Republican Senator Jesse Helms of North Carolina have introduced bills that would restore some version of the gold standard. Says Laffer: "President Reagan is going to have a lot of trouble...
Tenants in the 65-unit building on the corner of Mt. Auburn St. and University Road hung a banner from the front of the building yesterday reading "Save our Homes." A tenant spokesman, Meredith Scammell, told the Cambridge City Council last night that "Cambridge cannot afford to have a building as big as ours sitting empty...
...grand style. There were ruffles and flourishes when Reagan and Nancy strode out of the White House to greet the Chancellor's limousine at the diplomatic entrance. While guns boomed out a 19-gun salute, a Marine band played the German national anthem and then the Star-Spangled Banner. There was a flashy presentation of colors by an honor guard, and a bewigged fife and drum corps, wearing colonial dress, marched...