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...didn't disappoint them. "I feel just fine." he chuckled, waving aside the unmentioned fact that he is 68. Holding out his glass of tonic water, he said,"Look, not even a ripple"; and sure enough, the surface of the drink was as tranquil as the candidate's mood. He told a questioner that he had just spent his August vacation at his Santa Barbara ranch putting in 400 ft. of fence posts the size of telephone poles. "Age is not a major question," he said. "Maybe there is nothing wrong with a little maturity -someone who remembers...
...hand at Peking airport to meet Mondale, his wife Joan and daughter Eleanor, 19, at the start of the seven-day visit. The Chinese were expecting that months of diplomatic courtship on both sides finally would be followed by tangible aid from the U.S. The Vice President did not disappoint them...
...journalists and their employers respond to their increasing power and prestige? Halberstam's book will disappoint those expecting to hear the worst. The Post, for instance, was handed down from Eugene Meyer to his brilliant son-in-law Philip Graham. Eventually Graham used Meyer's money to buy out the competition and create a morning monopoly in Washington. According to conventional wisdom, that is the time when publishers kick out the reporters and make room for the advertisers. Graham did nothing of the sort; he used his newfound security to take on better journalists and increase his paper's authority...
Because so much has in fact been accomplished, the failure to meet the Dec. 17 deadline, while certainly disappoint ing, does not necessarily doom the Egyptian-Israeli peace process. As a result of the progress made during talks in Washington in October and November, Egypt and Israel agree on most points of a draft treaty. The unresolved issues are truly mi nor, although they relate to the crux of a major Middle Eastern diplomatic problem: How directly should an Egypt-Israel peace be linked to a general Arab-Israeli settlement? So far, the negotiating process has proved remarkably durable, surviving...
...funeral instructions, but the Cardinals quickly decided upon the style of simple, stately rites that had been held for Pope Paul VI eight weeks ago. They kept to an open-air Mass in St. Peter's Square, despite the virtual certainty of rain, so as not to disappoint the more than 50,000 people who, rain or shine, desired to attend. At one point during the Requiem, a downpour drenched the solitary coffin, and aides rushed up with umbrellas to shield the 90 white-mitered Cardinals...