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...Nina Straight, a Washington socialite, agrees that he has held something back from the world: "I don't think Gore wants people to know what a sterling character he is and how hard he works. He has not had a happy life, but he's never dwelt on it. He just put certain things aside and concentrated on the writing. I know it sounds Horatio Algeresque -he will vomit to think I'm putting him in that category. But it's true...
...coughing bouts and picked up small squares of gauze to daub his lips. He used no notes, charts or maps and talked through the entire hour and 50 minutes. He was informed and up to date, moving the discussion through Europe, the Middle East, and Asia. He dwelt on the major forces at work, the people and events, his concern about the Soviet Union. If his mouth would not always obey his commands, the Americans detected nothing wrong with his mind...
...Busch has said that he would reopen the case only if a court directed him to do so. Sirhan's attorney has been preparing an appeal for two months, and plans to file it soon. Skeptics have long been troubled by the fact that Sirhan's trial dwelt on his motives and mental state when he pulled the trigger and not on the other evidence. But unless a new inquiry turns up facts more convincing than those that have inspired the current renaissance of doubt, Sirhan will probably retain the grim distinction of being the sole assassin...
THERE ARE TWO things about Nate Shaw's life that are striking and dominant: work and race. The two are on every page, dwelt on more often than people less outspoken than Shaw would feel comfortable with. Shaw was born poor and spent all his life trying to make a living by farming while white people tried to take his money and crops away from him. His life was a struggle from beginning to end, and his courage in remaining fiercely independent is striking. He was something of a pariah in his community because of his belligerent attitudes towards whites...
...find Ford parallels in Harry Truman. Ettore Delia Giovanna, 61, Italian television's version of Eric Sevareid, has been presenting the President as "a noble expression of the average American-that average American which has made America great and powerful." Like many U.S. newsmen, European editors have dwelt more or less heavily on Ford's supposed lack of intellectual heft...