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REVERENTLY I TRUDGED down the well-worn stairs to the basement of the sacred Rat. To Boston rockers, the beer-soaked carpet of the Rathskellar is hallowed ground: it bears the libations of scores touched by a wayward muse. This particular night, the faithful fixtures at the Rat included familiar faces. Musicians, regulars on the local scene, conferred in the dark corner near the mixing board; groupies, punks and curious bedazzled figures crowded the tables. At the bar a gauntlet of black leather elbows lifted steins in homage to the spectacle on stage...
...university administrators seeking big names for their faculties brought death and destruction to millions of people around the world, teaching them to hate and fear the U.S. Among other things, Kissinger can be held responsible for the expansion of the Indochina War into Cambodia in 1970, the Christmas carpet bombing of Vietnam in 1972 and the CIA-supported coup in Chile...
...reunion, from boudoir to boudoir. A taciturn character by nature who oozes ennui from every pore, Carroll is everybody's darling, from his rags-to-riches dad who hasn't received a letter from his prodigal son in three years to the older women who roll out the red carpet for this slightly bewildered conquistador...
...power-Carter tends to use it only for ceremonial occasions and special meetings. Most of his day is spent in his adjacent small study, which is connected to the Oval Office by a short passageway. The room is sunny, the decor simple yet elegant; long curtains, gold carpet, white couch, two green easy chairs that are prime candidates for recovering. His personal secretary, Susan Clough, sits in an office adjacent to the study. When she is not typing letters or penciling in the almost constant changes in Carter's daily schedule, she is feeding the President's Panasonic...
...were very compleat anglers. We were compleat with a $300,000, 46-ft. Heli-Home, which consists in effect of an S-58 Sikorsky helicopter mated to a Winnebago motor home. The ultimate in Arvees (recreational vehicles), it is a cross between a magic carpet and a pasha...