Word: chatted
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North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms stepped off Flight 015. He was part of an official six-man congressional delegation representing the U.S. at a conference in Seoul to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the mutual defense treaty between South Korea and the U.S. Helms stopped to chat with a young Australian couple and their two daughters from Flight 007. "She was reading to those beautiful little girls," he recalled later, through tears. "It was the most marvelous thing you could have seen." With Helms was Idaho Senator Steve Symms. They looked for Georgia Congressman Lawrence P. McDonald, who was scheduled...
Faced with a standoff, the Herut caucus finally asked Meridor to have a confidential chat with Begin. Since the Prime Minister was thought to favor the more experienced Shamir over his young and relatively dovish rival, any word from Begin would have broken the deadlock. But the Prime Minister told Meridor that "in the matter of choosing a successor, I do not want to interfere." Sharon then declared his support for Shamir. One reason: he may have been offered an important post in a Shamir government, possibly as chairman of the Ministerial Committee for Settlement Programs...
...script also called for Congressman Silvio Conte to get a phone call from Ronald Reagan, the admirer who had a portrait of the parsimonious Coolidge moved into the Cabinet Room 2½ years ago. The chat between John Coolidge and Reagan will be beamed out over the lawn. John thought he might tell the story of his father's taking his two boys to stand in front of a bank. "See if you can hear anything," Coolidge admonished. They could not and so reported. "I thought if you listened carefully you might hear your money working...
...actually I'm very shy and humble." On this warm summer day, sitting over lunch at the Ivy, an old theatrical restaurant in London's West End, he is none of those things, however. He is instead the Gielgud his friends say they see, the irrepressible Mr. Chat, full of observations, anecdotes and gossip. "You needn't say a word when you're with him," says Ralph Richardson, a close friend for 53 years. "Sometimes I will say yes or no or really? Afterward he will tell someone, 'I had a wonderful talk with Ralph...
...pick of the single-volume books, a guide to the bests: ski areas, tennis clubs, museums, music festivals, language schools, even flea markets. Birnbaum provides detailed sightseeing itineraries as well as separate entries on 34 major cities. Written in a brisk, chummy style, Europe 1983 is like a long chat with a peripatetic friend whose tastes you share...