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...unique way with horses, one that combines sporting instinct with clerkish fussiness on a corporate scale. He describes it as "horribly businesslike." At the core of his operation is a first-rate staff. Irish Trainer Vincent O'Brien, 65, for instance, is one of those souls who commune with Thoroughbreds somewhere beyond speech. O'Brien's canny ways brought the team its first big season in 1977: the $200,000 stallion The Minstrel won four major European races and was syndicated at $9 million. Pat Hogan is Sangster's "salt of the peat" conformation expert, which...
Indeed, Shultz represents something quite new in a modern Secretary of State. He is a composite of experience instead of the product of a single discipline. He is a Princeton football player who studied economics at M.I.T., immigrated to the prairie intellectual commune at the University of Chicago, went in and out of Government, academe and politics, and finally contended in the international corporate arena. Kissinger was a pure academic. The blue blood of the Council on Foreign Relations coursed through Lawyer Cy Vance. Ed Muskie of Maine was the pol in striped pants. And Haig was the general...
Patrick says he got down off the platform, let the guy have a look, and went to crash at a nearby commune of militant lesbians who kept a stash of rifles in their attic...
...over the depth of personal contact, which could lead to what the Chinese press decries as "spiritual opium," meaning corruption from abroad. Two years ago, officials were stunned and alarmed by the case of Steven Mosher, 34, a Stanford University graduate student who lived for nine months in a commune in Guangdong province. Mosher collected extensive interviews, photographed thousands of documents shown him by village officials and took intimate pictures that provide a detailed and-from what Mosher has published so far outside China-unfavorable look at village life. Chinese authorities claimed that Mosher bribed villagers to get his material...
...White House banquet honoring China's Vice Chairman Deng Xiaoping, Shirley MacLaine enthusiastically recalled a trip to the People's Republic and a meeting with a nuclear physicist. Since being sentenced to a commune to grow tomatoes, she told Deng, the scientist said he felt much happier and more productive. Replied Deng politely: "He lied." Such rosy reports have been as predictable as the years of the Monkey, Pig and Goat, but from time to time, a Dengian antidote has been offered. Fox Butterfield's China: Alive in the Bitter Sea and Richard Bernstein's From...