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...quite a different task from following Kissinger. Talbott remembers how much Kissinger liked holding airborne seminars for reporters and taking them into his confidence. He even enjoyed arguing with correspondents. At other times, recalls Ogden, "Kissinger would come to the back of the plane, perch on your armrest, pick cocktail nuts off your tray and tell outrageous and fascinating stories about officials he dealt with-all off the record, of course...
After that kind of grind, Vance tries evade the diplomatic cocktail circuit. He and Grace?she too is an intensely private person?turn down numerous invitations, preferring to spend their evenings at home. They may go to a movie together, but rarely watch television unless a news event demands attention...
...Washington, D.C. cocktail party where economists are present (which is most of them), the main topic of fretful conversation these days is inflation. It is a strong tide that may momentarily ebb with an occasional optimistic statistic, only to rise again when new reports are issued. Echoing almost all the experts, as well as the public opinion polls. Federal Reserve Chairman G. William Miller told the Senate Budget Committee last week that inflation is the nation's No. 1 economic problem. He also warned that it is growing worse...
Untrue. Washingtonians can see him almost any day whizzing around town, often on foot. Tall, slim and elegant in his dark suit and white mustache, Strout avoids the cocktail circuit, preferring the evening company of Wife Ernestine and his longtime mistress, the printed word. "I read, read, read," he says. "You can't read enough. You can't know enough...
...testified that Khatemi's ownership of Air Taxi was common knowledge in Iran, and that this fact had been called to the attention of top executives of Textron's Bell Helicopter division in the mid-1960s. The executives, however, testified that they had considered the talk "cocktail-party rumor," unworthy of reporting to Miller. That seems plausible enough. At the time Bell officials were allegedly informed of Khatemi's interest in Air Taxi, Iran was a very minor client. Bell had sold only 15 helicopters to all of Asia during a four-year period...