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...Cubans began clamoring to leave, and Castro decided to let them go, he publicly berated them as criminals, derelicts and misfits. Cuban officials did their best to bear out such charges. Anyone boasting a prison record could get priority passage out of Cuba: indeed, some Cuban officials did a brisk business in selling forged prison papers...
Novelist Rogin is the managing editor of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, a magazine in which bright, brisk conflicts get resolved by the end of the fourth quarter. Albert's world is more bewildering, achingly inconclusive. He lives in a Greenwich Village brownstone, two flights up from lis "semi-ex-wife" Violet, who has resumed life with her first husband, a functioning dipso poet named Skippy Mountjoy. Albert drops by to walk their dachshund every day. His girlfriend is a youthful, frantically athletic woman whom he calls the Human Dynamo. She telephones lim at night from New Canaan, Conn., to wonder whether...
Sergeant Doe, now Africa's youngest strongman, became enraged at Tolbert during last year's rice riots. A brisk, jaunty, slightly built man, he is the son of an impoverished farmer from the small Krahn tribe. He left school after the eleventh grade and joined the army. Last year he took an advanced training course from a U.S. Army special forces detachment in Liberia. Like Flight Lieut. Jerry Rawlings, 33, who led a coup in neighboring Ghana last year, Doe has a flair for the dramatic. During his first TV address as head of state, he wore sunglasses...
...shirt, t-shirt..." implored a blond moppet missing a front tooth. He and his family were hawking marathon shirts for $2. The toddler sold out. Down the street a hot dog stand ran a brisk trade; pretzel vendors catered to the crowd, and ice cream trucks jingled by to catch the attentions of the pre-school...
...brisk February day shortly thereafter, Howard Hunt and I had lunch with a physician retired from CIA, an expert on what Hunt called "the unorthodox application of medical and chemical knowledge." Hunt introduced me under my operational alias, "George Leonard." We lunched in the Hay Adams Hotel, just across Lafayette Park from the White House. The purpose of the luncheon, Hunt had explained to me previously, was to prepare, for the approval of Hunt's "principal," a plan to stop columnist Jack Anderson. Hunt and I often used the term "my principal" rather than identify our superiors...