Word: franticness
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...Carter and Richard Nixon had already signaled the White House that they wanted to attend the funeral. Reagan decided to make it a full house. White House staffers tracked down Gerald Ford in New York, and he eagerly signed on. Then the White House and State Department began the frantic and difficult job of selecting the rest of the official party and assigning the 52 seats for guests and crew on board SAM (for Special Air Missions) 26000. (The code name Air Force One is reserved to any Air Force plane with the incumbent President aboard.) The aircraft...
...Force dispatched two Jet-Stars and a C-9 transport to gather the Presidents. Joe Canzeri, the White House's wizard on transportation arrangements, began a frantic 48 hours of orchestration. Secretary of State Alexander Haig was official leader of the party, so he got the "Presidential Suite" on board 26000 ("The diplomatic way out," joked Haig). Irony flashed through the minds of the arrangers. Two cabins behind Haig would ride Nixon and former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, for whom Haig had worked as a lesser aide. Such is the span of fleeting power...
...central provinces, where the outbreak was most severe. At one point, it was reported that strawberries and green vegetables might be responsible. Sales of asparagus and strawberries plummeted, and thousands of pounds of both had to be destroyed. Other rumors blamed birds, dogs and cats for the contamination, and frantic families put hundreds of pets to death. Because the first cases were reported near the U.S. airbase at Torrejon de Ardoz, people even talked about an accidental leak from American chemical warfare weapons which they be lieve are stored at the base. Spanish officials laughed off such charges. Said...
...Tattoo You, which is at once an admission by the Stones that, no, they don't have any new ideas and a reaffirmation that they do their old ones better than anyone else. They're still singing about what it's like to look back on the frantic nights when they cruised London and New York with willing and nameless young women; it all seems to be getting more and more distant. Jagger has always thrived on irony, and he is in top form on the latest album, using his own retreat from hard living to keep the Stones driving...
...brief moment last week, it looked as if the two years of chaos in the world's oil markets were ending. Saudi Arabia appeared about to force its moderate pricing policy on the 13-nation Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. But then, after a week of frantic negotiations behind closed doors in Geneva's luxurious Intercontinental Hotel, the oil ministers broke up in deadlock. Instead of agreeing to a compromise formula that would have reunified OPEC's crazy quilt of prices, which range from a low of $32 per bbl. to a high...