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When he was Secretary of State, Edmund Muskie tucked a hand-penned message into Jimmy Carter's evening reading "to keep the personal touch." In secret deliberations when the tide seemed to be running against the interests of President Kennedy or Johnson, Secretary Dean Rusk often would scribble a short plea on note paper and slip it unobtrusively to the man beside him. The message: "Don't make a decision now, Mr. President. Let me see you later." Henry Kissinger had a pact with Gerald Ford to meet at least a half-hour every working...
Reported by Edmund Outran/Belfast and Arthur White/London
...bands played, and no crowds cheered, as 593 Argentine soldiers returned home under tight security last week aboard the British ferryboat St. Edmund. The diesel-powered vessel discharged its human cargo, the last of some 11,000 prisoners taken by Britain in the Falkland Islands war, on a windswept dock in out-of-the-way Puerto Madryn, 650 miles south of Buenos Aires. One of the first down the gangplank was General Mario Benjamin Menendez, army commander in the Falklands, who saddened many of his countrymen when he surrendered to Britain's Major General John Jeremy Moore. Military authorities...
Into this lion's den came the Christian, the Rev. Billy Graham, newly back from the Soviet Union and impressed by the religious freedom there. A fellow evangelical, the Rev. Edmund Robb, was also on the program, assuring Graham, "I love you, I believe in you" but insisting that Graham had been "very naive." Will and Donaldson felt no need to establish whether or not they love Billy Graham...
...wife Helen kept Princeton abuzz with gossip because she so openly scorned the role of faculty wife. When her husband told her that he had invited T.S. Eliot to dinner, she said, "Tell him to bring his own chop." During an erratic ride to a local restaurant, Edmund Wilson criticized the driving of Allen Tate: "Thank you uh uh, thank you Allen for uh for uh for an interesting and hazardous experiment in uh what it's like to drive on the wrong side of the road, an experiment hohoho which I uh I want never to repeat...