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WHALEN and O'Hara are good, hardworking cops, and largely unappreciated. We felt the same hostile sidewalk stares that they did. We saw few people thank them. We watched them grab a man who had his hands around the throat of a young woman in a barroom doorway. The woman called them pigs...
Shura, 37, a bearded artist in a faded sheepskin coat, a fur hat tipped to one side of his head. He beckoned toward a darkened doorway before speaking: "Lenin was the only one who thought about us; all the leaders who followed him were ambitious. That is why Brezhnev let us live our own lives; he lived a pretty nice one himself, eh? I have a friend who knows people in the Central Committee. He says that Gorbachev knows what he is about, that he is with it. Say, let's sneak off for a drink. Why huddle here discussing...
...Stolichnaya vodka from Mother Russia to wash down Chesapeake blue crabs out of Chef Henry Haller's imaginative kitchen. Old Grom can demolish succulent rolled veal, served on Lyndon Johnson's china and set off with a California wine. Finally, Gromyko will be escorted to the diplomatic doorway in the back of the White House for his exit, far from probing cameras and obstreperous reporters. It is a vantage point with a magnificent panorama of the Washington Monument and the Jefferson Memorial. On a clear autumn day the air seems to rustle with the presidential whispers that have...
...gets regular briefings from Spokesman Larry Speakes, which the pool shares with the rest of the press traveling on a separate "zoo plane." There is an unwritten agreement that Reagan is not photographed at unguarded moments, although a picture of him wearing sweat pants and standing in a doorway was transmitted by U.P.I, this week, despite White House requests that it be withheld. Vice President George Bush avoids the situation entirely: his staff has decided to allow no reporters on his plane...
...parallel bars with relief and Retton came to the vaulting horse, her pet pony. A loud bear, Bela Karolyi, the defector who instructed Comaneci and Szabo and now teaches Retton and Julianne McNamara, quietly watched the team ceremony two days earlier and listened to his old anthem from a doorway. "I coached Szabo from the time she was five, [Lavinia] Agache from the time she was six," he said. "I'm feeling happy for Mary Lou and Julianne and the same thing for my former girls." Little Szabo looks like she would sooner fall off the balance beam than neglect...