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...Kaye, 57, a disciple of Thera's since 1963, becomes worried in mid-1979 because he has disappeared. For 13 years they have been lovers. As she recalls the moment when he reached across his kitchen table to touch her for the first time, "I could feel a bolt of energy pass through my body...
...greatest asset was his credibility with the American people. If they wished to doze off through the '50s, they counted on Ike to wake them when anything important came up. Reagan, for all of his crinkling swell-guy charm, says things that tend to keep people sitting bolt upright, with sweat on their palms...
Loman is also worried about certain aspects of his job. "In the last couple of years, we've had to maintain our B-52s on cannibal status - borrowing parts from some so others could fly. I used to be able to get a certain bolt right away, but now it takes as long as three weeks. Standards are still met, but it's getting harder to meet them." He worries about the new recruits ("They just can't hack it") and thinks the Air Force is losing too many skilled mechanics too fast, thereby burdening those...
...lawn chairs sipping Michelob until the tear gas gets too thick and they retreat to their glassed-in-porch. After the first rush, there seems little hope of gaining the site, but scattered charges at the fence continue. As fast as the grappling hooks are attached, troopers with bolt cutters cut them off the fence, often sending those on the other end reeling backwards, losers in a one-sided tug of war. One hook is cut loose and comes flying off the fence straight at the head of a New Hampshire trooper--he is knocked unconscious. The authorities, with...
...step down. Even so, they were not expected to seriously split the party. After the vote, Fukuda insisted that he had warned his faction members against such a move. "It was a big miscalculation," he said. Later, however, he refused to rule out the possibility that he might bolt and form a new conservative party...