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...dictated a one-sentence letter of resignation -- "Dear Mr. President: I hereby resign as Chief of Staff to the President of the United States" -- and had it messengered down the hall to the Oval Office. Too late, the President finally called. After a strained exchange, Regan put on his coat and walked...
...expected to do almost routinely. Most Presidents have abhorred direct dismissals of high officials, preferring to arrange face- saving resignations when finally convinced that a once valued aide must leave. When Sherman Adams, Dwight Eisenhower's steely chief of staff, admitted in 1958 that he had accepted a vicuna coat and some blankets from Textile Manufacturer Bernard Goldfine, even Ike, who had vowed that his Administration would be "clean as a hound's tooth," took no action until Republican fat cats warned that party fund raising might suffer unless Adams left. Eisenhower let aides pass that worry along to Adams...
...what the hell are you doing here?" I asked, a hospitable gleam lighting up my cherubic face. The Dinosaur whirled, chains clanking softly against his leathery torso. A black leather coat--imbedded with steel plates and crusted with spikes--made up his armor; a gelled crest of blonde mohawk arced across his skull, calling to mind some genetically mutated stegosaurus. The Dinosaur...
Upstairs I dumped my coat under a portrait of His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami, known as Prabhupada--who was sharing wall space with a microwave oven--and shuffled barefoot into the ceremony room. In here, His Divine Grace was represented in 3-D form; a lifesize, full color lacquered statue sat meditatively at the back of the room, surrounded by leafy ferns and silky robes...
Another potential solution is being explored by Dr. Allan Goldstein at George Washington University. Goldstein has found that it is possible to use a protein from the core of the AIDS virus to immunize laboratory animals. This protein, unlike those in the outer coat, does not vary much from one strain of the virus to the next. Says Goldstein: "We think we've overcome the problem of a constantly changing virus." Even if he has, it remains to be shown that this or any other vaccine preparation can actually protect people from infection. Predicts Dr. Anthony Fauci, director...