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...Muse, as well as a wife, Mary clearly was hooked. At Finca Vigia, Hemingway's "charming ruin" of a house in Cuba, she typed his manuscripts, answered letters, checked receipts, and ran a household that numbered four gardeners, a cook, a butler, a maid, a chauffeur (not to mention the dogs and cats). On the Pilar, Hemingway's beloved 38-ft. yacht, she was his fishing buddy. Everywhere-in the bullfight arenas of Spain, on safari in Africa, at Toots Shor's celebrity saloon in Manhattan-she was audience to an endless cycle of war stories...
...valances. Preoccupied, Kelley told his driver, Agent Thomas Moten, to take care of the matter. Having served on Hoover's personal staff, Moten did as he had done in the past: asked the exhibit section to help out. When Kelley asked Moten how much the valances cost, the chauffeur replied: "What the hell, boss, it was only scrap lumber-forget it." Until last week, Kelley...
...during most of their public lives. Both novels contain lengthy descriptions of the Oval Office (in all of its awesome splendor), Airforce Two (Agnew), Airforce One (Agnew and Ehrlichman), and Camp David (Ehrlichman). The material spoils of power are given prominent places in both books: the authors dwell on chauffeur-driven limos, deferring butlers and maids, posh furnishings, fancy restaurants, sumptuous Government repasts (Agnew likes to show that he's a connoisseur by having Canfield comment on the quality of food and wine), and above all, alcohol. Booze, according to these novels, almost swirls down the gutters of Washington...
...nearby bushes detonated by remote control about 500 Ibs. of explosives hidden inside. The blast gouged a crater 10 ft. deep, hurled the Jaguar into the air and sent stones flying for several hundred yards. The ambassador and a secretary, Judith Cook, 25, were killed. Gravely injured were the chauffeur and Brian Cubbon, British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who had come from Belfast to confer with the new ambassador...
...point cynics called "Mandelbaum Gate"*: only intrepid souls risked it during periods of fighting when the final stretch had to be negotiated at nothing less than 70 m.p.h. Last week two American diplomats, Ambassador Francis E. Meloy Jr. and Economic Counselor Robert O. Waring, as well as their Lebanese chauffeur-bodyguard, dared the nightmare drive−and were gunned down somewhere between the front lines...