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...following the delivery trucks along Queens Boulevard, her hips rotating, arms pumping and legs jerking straight out in front, looking for all the world like a drunken ostrich on parade. Marian Spatz, a high school administrative secretary from the New York City borough of Queens, is totally unfazed by curious stares, for this is her daily exercise regimen. Not for her the heel-pounding, back-jarring effort of jogging. Instead, she, like many other American fitness enthusiasts, has taken up aerobic walking. If you think mere walking will not keep you in shape, listen to Marian. After three years...
...elaborations of such historic themes as World War II (A Bell for Adano), the Holocaust (The Wall) and the atom bomb (Hiroshima), has chosen the dialogue form for what seems a lighter topic: the pursuit of bluefish off Martha's Vineyard in Massachusetts. But as the book's insatiably curious Stranger talks informally with the knowledgeable Fisherman, a cascade of lore and documents, poetry and tragedy is netted along with the glistening quarry...
Reagan's activism in favor of the contras raised questions about his role in soliciting funds from third countries, an indirect form of support that Congress explicitly prohibited in October 1985. In a curious charade designed to avoid embarrassing nations that are friendly to the U.S., it was agreed that they would be cited only by a number. But it was clear that "Country 2" was Saudi Arabia, which had, at McFarlane's prompting, contributed $1 million a month to the contras since May 1984. In February 1985, the President held a meeting in the Oval Office with King Fahd...
...followed Kennan as director of policy planning -- s/p (for staff and planning) in the curious jargon of the State Department -- all had their brushes with epochal events. Paul Nitze, who at 80 is still active as President Reagan's arms-control adviser after service under eight Presidents, recalls a 1953 fight with Secretary of State John Foster Dulles to exclude a sentence on Chinese expansionism from an Eisenhower speech just before the Korean War armistice. (Nitze won.) In the summer of 1962 Walt W. Rostow and his staff predicted that Nikita Khrushchev would soon embark on high-risk foreign policy...
...uniquely American ritual. A concerned and curious citizenry gathers in an electronic version of a Colonial town meeting to watch their elected representatives grill Government officials, high and low, about a sorry episode in contemporary history. The viewing can be painful yet mysteriously exhilarating, boring at times yet somehow fascinating. It is an odd self- flagellation, but out of it can emerge a catharsis. The Government's secrets are exposed, its actions explained, condoned or condemned. The issue is faced. The nation moves...