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He is still notably opaque for a man in public life. The private personality behind the long face, doleful eyes and resonant voice is known only to his family and a few close friends, though one crony insists: "There is no such thing as an off-the-record Scoop. What...
As the new year began, moreover, the American manufacturers were surrounded by doleful statistics: 14 assembly plants shut down; almost 300,000 assemblers, clerks, accountants, designers and middle-level managers-20% of the industry's work force-laid off; 1.7 million unsold cars sitting in factory and dealer lots...
On the other hand, he introduced me to a political science teacher, a smiling, unpretentious, gentle-seeming man with a doleful tale of student criticism. "I used to not take much account of specific students, and they criticized me," he said. "Some in class, some after class, some with posters...
These are not the best of times for President Nguyen Van Thieu. Since the 1973 Peace Accords were signed in Paris, the opposing sides in South Viet Nam have methodically killed each other at a doleful rate of 4,000 a month. What makes the fighting utterly futile is the...
Centennial is intended as Michener's 200th-birthday present to the U.S. His setting is a small, fictional town, first called Zendt's Farm, then Centennial, on the eastern slope of the Rockies along the South Platte River in Colorado. His aim is to use the territory around...