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Those daily briefings and meetings and handshakings and constant questions from the press. Presidents generally enjoy the rituals of office?otherwise they wouldn't be Presidents?but there also come times when they yearn to escape. Calvin Coolidge used to flee to his father's farm in Vermont to enjoy the tranquillity of the haying season. Herbert Hoover cast flies into Virginia's Rapidan River. Harry Truman swam off the beach at Key West, and Dwight Eisenhower drove golf balls through pine-edged fairways in Colorado...
...evening of the second day, the radio began broadcasting the commandos' communiqué, calling for National Guardsmen to arrest their superiors or flee with their arms. Next morning, 45 hours after it began, the siege ended peacefully. A bus drew up to the National Palace and one by one the Sandinistas walked out, leaving their captives behind, and clambered aboard. "With the black-and-red Sandinista flag flying from the bus and the guerrillas waving their rifles, it looked like a victory parade," reported TIME Mexico City Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich from the scene. "All along the eight-mile route, thousands...
...productivity. Staffers are still close enough to Manhattan to run in for a Broadway play but are spared the drudgery of daily commuting. They no longer wander in late because of railroad tie-ups, and they tend to stay to clean up the day's work rather than flee at the stroke of 5 p.m. to catch the next train. Some firms have even been able to lengthen their formal work week. The Olin Corp., whose 1969 move from Manhattan to Stamford led off the exodus to Fairfield County, cut its lunch period from one hour to half...
...when the waters of Narragansett Bay finally begin lapping over the bubble-topped conning tower of the S 250 at Jacobson's practice site in the lee of Prudence Island, all common sense and lessons learned temporarily flee. The student has just bolted himself in with four screw bolts that clamp the bubble to the conning tower...
...that Peking's embassy in Hanoi had hired agents provocateurs to roil Viet Nam's 1.2 million Hoa (ethnic Chinese) and induce them to leave the country. Hanoi produced two such alleged agents who "confessed" that they had plotted to promote "chauvinism" among the Chinese and persuade them to flee. One Radio Hanoi broadcast accused Peking of exploiting the refugee issue: "In the eyes of the Chinese authorities, the lives and property of the Chinese people in Viet Nam are only a political means, a pawn and a sacrificial lamb in their dark plot...