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Gates visited one Senate office after another Monday trying to lather on a little of his personal charm. But even his escort, Vin Weber, a former Congressman who's now a full-time Washington fixer, couldn't smooth Gates' prickly edges. "It was like fingernails on a blackboard," said a participant in one of the meetings. "You'd think with all that money he's paying to his advisers they'd tell him how to behave in front of a U.S. Senator...
...public loudly cheer or jeer. Usually this means William Randolph Hearst and whatever foreign personage happens to be visiting. But last week it meant Charles Spencer Chaplin and Albert Einstein. All of Hollywood's police reserves turned out to make tunnels through the populace so that Mr. Chaplin could escort Dr. Einstein to see the first new Chaplin film in two years...
...Near week's end, [President] Kennedy flew into Manhattan, aged his Secret Service detail ten years by forgoing the usual motorcycle escort into the city. At one of ten midtown traffic lights that stopped the presidential limousine, an ambitious female camera bug rushed up and fired a flashbulb at Kennedy's side of the car. Moaned a New York police official: 'She might well have been an assassin.'" --Nov. 22, 1963, date of issue on sale the week Kennedy was shot in Dallas...
Under the Court's order, Elster cannot return to Harvard without the escort of his attorney, Kenneth F. D'Arcy '58, or the police. He must remain 150 yards away from the woman who pressed charges against him, and he cannot leave Massachusetts without permission of the Court...
...Cincinnati Country Day School have set up round-the-clock tech-help desks in the hallways, assisting schoolmates in fixing crashed hard drives and finding lost files. And no one is more enthusiastic about laptop learning than parents; in communities like Washington Heights they have organized safety brigades to escort kids carrying computers from the school buses to their homes. In Little Falls, Minn.--a working-class district that distributed 276 laptops last year--parents volunteer and provide tutoring at local schools to defray the cost of their kids' machines...