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...highest-paid executive in Hawaii, collecting $174,000. Though he can afford better, he lives in a less than fashionable subdivision on the rainy windward side of Oahu, and has given up golf in favor of gardening and mowing his lawn with a small tractor. Explains Walker: "I crave solitude at times, and golf is a competition amongst men. I get enough of that in eight hours of work every day." But Walker may one day have to give up his enviably relaxed life-style on Hawaii. By the end of 1974, the company will consolidate several of its operations...
Come now, gentlemen, your love is all I crave...
...high school teacher, glued himself to the tube from noon to nightfall. Eventually she started watching the games herself. "We got our first color television set when I was pregnant," she recalls. "I can't say whether it was the TV or the pregnancy, but I started to crave football games...
...Connally has only one big prize left to crave: the U.S. presidency. Many of his intimates believe that his quest for that position is what led him back into Government. He realized that the chances of a liberal Democratic Party choosing as its candidate another Texan?especially one who is more conservative than Johnson?are dim indeed. For the moment, all he can do is play out the hand that Nixon has dealt him and wait to see what happens. Connally has told friends that he and Nixon have never discussed the possibility of his taking the No. 2 spot...
Vogel himself exhibits no memory in the usual sense. He seems to be an uneasy collection of disparate traits acquired from the men who have been most central in his life. He seems, indeed, to crave other people's personalities in much the way the Pedersens craved morphine, whisky and candy. Neither the author nor the reader is ever quite sure just what Vogel is-a series of conditioned reflexes linked to some sort of life force; a mechanistic particle of personalities; a maddened poseur. Only Vogel's wife suggests that her husband consists of "real units...