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...longtime friend, "about the only man I know who wears both button-down collars and a collar pin"), works and lives quietly, avoids Washington's social swim. In the office from 8:30 to 7:30 p.m. six days a week, he often goes home to a brace of martinis and dinner, then straight to bed. He smokes sporadically, munches Life Savers to cut down on the weed, carries his head at a peculiar starboard tilt (he says he picked up the habit while trying to dodge low-slung overheads aboard ship). Gates has not had a full-fledged...
...Sultan used to slip from his dull capital of Johore Bharu across the strait to Singapore, where his pursuit of wine, women and song was so uninhibited that annoyed British authorities established a 10 p.m. curfew for the young monarch's own good, and set a brace of policemen on his heels to enforce it. If a car had the temerity to pass him on a Johore highway, the Sultan would improve his marksmanship by shooting its rear tires...
...WARRIORS (242 pp.)-A Glenn Gray-Harcourt, Brace...
...PRIVATE AFFAIR (192 pp.) -Edmund G. Love-Harcourt, Brace...
...FATHERS AND I (253 pp.)-Eric Linklater-Harcourt, Brace...