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Whatever its size, Reagan's private income enables him to pursue his goals. And as is often the case with candidates for major office or the heads of major corporations or labor unions, there always seem to be a battalion of aides to fetch a car for him, pay a restaurant bill or see that his suit is pressed. Often these outlays are covered by an expense account. Reagan's close friends insist that he would prefer a simpler, even rustic living standard. Yet he has grown to accept the perquisites he receives. Above all, they allow...
...flourishing black market. An example is Heavy Sand, by the popular adventure and mystery writer Anatoli Rybakov. Despite the large printing (150,000), readers could not get enough of this bathetic story of love and death among Jews in the Ukraine during World War II; copies now fetch $150 on the black market...
...qualities mark her fiction. One is a skill in writing about white-collar work. James is almost 60 now, and has spent her life in the British civil service. She understands the lower and middle levels of bureaucracy, and she takes the nurses, supervisors, administrators and the people who fetch their tea and coffee seriously. Though she often describes routine, her novels can be very refreshing: she is someone who writes about offices without ridicule, irony or condescension. She knows the regimen of a hospital as well as Jane Austen knew the rigid cycle of the Assembly Rooms at Bath...
There was a mood of euphoria mixed with anxiety on the Endeavor as it slipped out of Little Torch Key. Aboard were two Cuban Americans from Miami who had paid the boat's captain $5,000 to take them to Cuba to fetch 17 members of their families. It was 18 miles from the Cuban coast that the first faint harbinger of trouble surfaced: a small runabout wallowing out of gas. We secured a line and towed it in. At Mariel, the harbor gradually took on the look of a water-bound tent city: laundry fluttering from the tethered...
...managed to rid his country of hundreds of dissidents and slightly relieved the demand for food and other goods in an already strapped economy. For much these same reasons he opened Camarioca, 65 miles east of Havana, as a refugee port in October 1965 and invited Cuban Americans to fetch relatives and friends. By the time he closed the port, about a month later, some 3,000 Cubans had exited by that route. That operation paved the way for the "freedom flights," sponsored by Washington, that eventually brought 270,000 Cuban refugees...