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...someone tried to shoot me, but my guys got him and sent him to the gas chamber," one boy wrote. Another, Carmine Esposito, described a chilling scene: "The next day I wanted to see and ride in my bulletproof car, which cost $100,000. When I saw the car I fainted. The car was a black funeral hearse. I saw a coffin. It said, 'Reserved for President Esposito...
...Scranton irked the Arabs by blocking a resolution that had been laboriously watered down precisely to avoid a U.S. veto. Israel was infuriated by a well-intentioned aside uttered by Scranton just before beginning his opening speech in the Security Council debate. The new ambassador looked around the chamber and invited "any of you and preferably all of you" to consult informally with him about the situation in the Middle East. Perhaps oversensitively, the Israeli government decided that Scranton's remark implied formal U.S. acceptance of the Palestine Liberation Organization, and it ordered Ambassador Simcha Dinitz to protest...
...stump in Florida, Ford claimed credit for helping Orlando land the 1978 International Chamber of Commerce convention. He promised that Brevard County would get "excellent consideration" as a site for a federal solar-research center. By funny happenstance, too, just before last week's election, the Air Force awarded an Orlando company a $33.6 million contract for missiles, and the Department of Transportation granted $15 million to launch a rapid-transit system for Dade County. In addition, Ford courted the Cuban vote by ordering more immigration officials to Miami to accelerate naturalization proceedings. He wooed conservatives by strongly suggesting...
...Genial, pipe-smoking Democrat Mike Mansfield, Montana Senator since 1953 and his party's majority leader since 1961, can be sharp-tongued when he needs to be. But in 15 years of Senate floor leadership - the longest tenure of any floor leader in the history of the upper chamber - he is legendary for almost never having lost his temper. Other majority leaders, like Mansfield's predecessor, Lyndon Johnson, bullied, threatened and arm-twist ed recalcitrant colleagues. The Montanan soothed, persuaded with calm reason and took the quiet...
...seat Lyttelton, where the company will make its debut, is a traditional proscenium arch house with the subdued intimacy of a room one might associate with chamber music. No ticket holder can complain about his point of vantage. The raked, beige, tufted seats offer sight lines of geometric clarity. It is as if the air had been filtered for purer vision. The particular largesse of the Lyttelton is a side stage sealed off from the main stage by a soundproof door. A visiting company from the provinces or abroad-and Hall intends to invite them -can mount...