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Ingenuity & Spirit. Even with reservations, there is always the threat of fog and canceled flights. One Cape Cod-bound CBS executive set off for Boston, landed instead in Burlington, Vt., because Boston was socked in. The airline provided a limousine for the 220-mile drive to Boston; fog still ruled out the flight to Provincetown, so he rented a car and drove another 115 miles, arrived at midday Saturday only to set off again Sunday for the return trip, just as the fog rolled back...
Noting that King Bhumibol of Thailand had visited Massachusetts' Martha's Vineyard as a child, Lyndon Johnson allowed to the monarch during his recent visit to the White House that "some members of my Cabinet-some members of my staff-have been known to disappear into the fogs of the Vineyard for long stretches of time. Some of them even claim that the fog obscures not only land and sea but also the sound of the White House telephone." Added L.B.J.: "Secretary Katzenbach, I am carefully observing your reaction...
...most celebrated Cape Cod commuters are the Kennedys, and except for fog, they have the problem pretty well licked. All it takes is their in genuity, their spirit-and their private plane. Every weekend, all summer long, the 18-seat Caroline makes the Washington-Hyannis Port run with a full load of assorted Kennedys, Shrivers, their staff members and house guests. The crunch comes when it is time for the flight back to Washington. The size of the original entourage is often swelled by guests who made it up to the Kennedy compound on their own, and there is often...
...Modern Library prose. We owe her much thanks for her hardihood, but it is refreshing to find out every so often that Dostoevsky really didn't write that funny way. The Loeb Repertory Company has staged a collection of scenes from Crime and Punishment that pierces through the Garnettian fog to something close to the original electricity of Dostoevsky...
...Walker can move toward climax and depth in the confines of a single scene. But little holds the scenes together, and when in the third act the play enters its third hour at the same time as the pace of the scenes goes a little too slow, a new fog of fatigue creeps over Dostoevsky...