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There was the comfortably familiar rattle of cups and saucers and the gurgle of hot coffee in Senate Minority Leader Howard Baker's office. Betty Ford nibbled a doughnut and declared it "delicious." Lynda Bird Johnson Robb told Richard Nixon she missed seeing his daughter Julie. "Henry, are you as mean as ever?" Nixon asked his former Secretary of State. "Yes," replied Kissinger, who had arrived with Nelson Rockefeller. "But I don't have as much opportunity as before...
...through our fingers." Later that day, Dayan told a press conference that Kamel's statement was like "holding a pistol to our heads" and the Egyptian should take such statements "back to Cairo with him." Thus even before Vance and the Foreign Ministers had taken their places around a doughnut-shaped table (its hole in the center decorated with three potted palms) in a ballroom of the Jerusalem Hilton, it was clear that the euphoria generated by Sadat's visit had all but evaporated...
...those who see the doughnut, this story illustrates that producers of necessities do not make fortunes because the costs of necessities can be low. For those who see the hole, it says that we are willing to reward those who produce the non-necessities...
Ectoplasmic Bagel. The magnetic containment devices most widely used in fusion experiments are called "tokamaks." Invented by Soviet scientists in the early 1960s, tokamaks are toruses, or doughnut-shaped chambers, surrounded by huge electromagnets. Gas is fed into the chamber and heated until it becomes a plasma. Powerful fields produced by the magnets hold the plasma and keep it from touching the chamber walls. The temperature of the plasma is raised closer to fusion temperatures by passing electric currents and shooting beams of high-energy atoms through it. With these techniques, tokamaks have come the closest of any magnetic device...
...week legislative committees agreed to assess 22 of his proposals. Said State Affairs Committee Chairman Tom Uher: "I'm setting these bills as fast as I can because I don't want to see Sam dying on us." During a committee meeting, Uher offered Hudson a glazed doughnut, but Hudson-who has consumed only orange juice and water since his strike began-refused. Still, he was encouraged by the committee's attention. Said he: "A few more days like this and I can go back to eating." The meal of his dreams? Well, mustard greens and dumplings...