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...Behind the folksy down-home style, though, is a tough, raw-hewn engineer. On his office wall hangs a laminated olive branch, a peace offering from a group of squabbling managers who once exasperated their chairman. When they could not reach a consensus at a meeting, Wilson slammed his folder shut and stalked out, telling them to see him when they had something to talk about. From the time he was in high school in Jefferson City, Mo., Wilson knew he wanted to sell airplanes. Even then, he had the knack for dramatizing issues. He once led a strike...
...meeting with Soviet Communist Party Chief Leonid Brezhnev. Administration officials were similarly excluded from Byrd's more-than-two-hour talk with Gromyko. This session began on an amiable note, with the Foreign Minister observing that his pile of briefing notes was thinner than Byrd's thick folder. "That's just my notebook," replied the majority leader. "I'm going to write down what you tell...
...committee passes around a thick application folder from "Mary." "Whoops!" says Rogers. "A 'Pinocchio'!" In Brown admissions jargon, that means her "guidance counselor has checked off boxes rating her excellent for academic ability but only good or average for humor, imagination and character. On the printed recommendation form, the low checks stick out from the high ones like a long, thin nose. "A rating of average usually means the guidance counselor thinks there is something seriously wrong," explains Admissions Officer Paulo de Oliveira. Mary's interview with a Brown alumnus was also lukewarm, and worse...
...application of a defenseman from Canada, Rogers reads his courses aloud: "English, auto mechanics, consumer math, shop ..." He looks for the essay. There is none; instead, the candidate has enclosed his team's player program, listing goals, assists, penalty minutes. Rogers shakes his head and starts reading another folder. "Bingo!" he cries. " A's and B's, 600 boards. You've got him." Several "weak but still breathing" candidates later, the coach anxiously states his need for ten forwards, five defensemen and two goalies. Rogers is good-natured about it, but he makes no promises...
...special White House working group, headed by Presidential Assistant Anne Wexler, met almost daily to pore over final details. Administration officials briefed hundreds of U.S. farmers, businessmen and labor leaders on the minutiae of U.S.-Chinese relations. Presidential aides issued a fat silver briefing folder in which more-or-less familiar Chinese names were rendered almost unrecognizable in Peking's own Chinese transliteration system: Teng Hsiao-p'ing, for example, became Deng Xiaoping...