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...trailers and socialize in a tent usually called the G-top (because it is often used for gambling). Carnie youngsters are told to play with each other rather than with outsiders, and while unmarried carnie women are no longer forbidden to go into town without a male carnie escort, they are discouraged from getting to know anyone in the towns they visit. Carnie protectiveness toward women can take some odd forms: Although male carnies permit their wives to perform as strippers, they are unwilling to let other carnie men ogle them; thus girlie shows are off limits to carnival...
...Senate, chairman of the National Council on Indian Opportunity and a regent of the Smithsonian Institution. But Agnew rarely visits his office in the Senate; he usually goes to Capitol Hill only when his vote might be needed to break a tie or when he is called on to escort a foreign dignitary. Despite his Indian council post, he played no part in the sensitive Wounded Knee negotiations, and he rarely attends council meetings. Agnew aides note that he likes to keep busy, but one of them admitted: "He does have bad days. He'll say, 'What...
Each morning at 7:45, a black Mercedes limousine with a police escort arrives at the Bucharest mansion of Rumanian President Nicolae Ceauşescu and whisks him to his office in the columned Central Committee Building. "At 8:01 the President's advisers and ministers must be ready to receive a call from him," says an aide. The call could be about almost anything, since Ceauşescu (pronounced Chow-shess-cue) insists on passing judgment on all manner of problems, from the working conditions in a coal mine to the decor inside the capital...
...would make either faux pas these days, for Gough (rhymes with cough) Whitlam is stirring things up more than any Australian leader in years. Until recently, Australia resembled a sort of waltzing Matilda, content to glide through life on the strong arm of a big, steady date. To her escort-first Britain, then the U.S.-she was complaisant, undemanding and faithful. In short, Australia could be taken for granted, and often was. No more. The waltz is ended. Australia has started to rock, and to a beat that is her own. To the dismay of officials in Washington, imitation...
Captain Michael H. Collier left the Castle--which he had entered early in the morning while protesters guarded the nearby University Placement building -- at 5 p.m. exactly, with a forceful police escort and B.U. vice-president Daniel Finn for added safety...