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When it is polished to a sheen, the written material goes to the puppeteers and the live actors, who customarily work on separate days??except for Oscar and Big Bird, who mix readily with humans. Five tape machines are used to record and edit the showand to mix in the animation that was done earlier in Hollywood. About two weeks later, the show is aired, bloopers and all. Indeed, Producer Jon Stone is rather proud of the bloopers. When a kid on the show asked Folk Singer Leon Bibb in mid-chant, "How come you're sweatin...
...finally hired as a trainee at Bache & Co., where he soon noticed that letters requesting sales brochures were piling up unanswered while salesmen concentrated on person-to-person contacts. By getting in touch with the writers, Stein built a rich commission business. "I was insufferable in those days???arrogant, ambitious and aggressive...
...deliberation of Richard Nixon's presidency, which sometimes makes the White House seem like Miltown Mansion. But last week, for a change, the people's business was humming at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and on Capitol Hill at a tempo brisker than any heard since Lyndon Johnson's happiest days???and the tune was pretty much the President's. Nixon returned to the capital early in the week from his round-the-world tour with stops in Asia and Rumania; six days later, he flew to California for a month's vacation on the Pacific oceanfront, with a state dinner...
After his son's death, Eisenhower returned to duty, burying his grief in work. The rewards were scarcely commensurate with the efforts. Ike's rise up the promotion ladder was painfully slow. In 1922, he was transferred to the Canal Zone?an inhospitable place in those days???where he became executive officer to Brigadier General Fox Conner, commander of the 20th Infantry Battalion. Next to Eisenhower's parents, Conner was probably the strongest influence in his life, introducing him for the first time to the serious study of military history and strategy. At West Point, Eisenhower remembered with distaste, this...
...Debby?Max Steels. 2. The Wall? John Hersey. 3. Burmese Days???George Orwell 4. The Egyptian? Mika Waltari. 5. The Naked and the Dead?Norman Mailer...