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...often hard to tell when they're being serious. Says McNulty with a straight face, "I'm a much more talented runner than Felix is, but this really hasn't hurt our friendship...
...right wing was reassured with Clark as National Security Adviser, believing he was a check on White House "pragmatists." The new appointee, hardliner or not, will not have the longstanding personal friendship and easy way with Reagan that Clark did, and thus is unlikely to have Clark's degree of influence...
...graduated from neither college nor law school and who took the bar exam twice before passing, Clark formed a close friendship with then-Governor Reagan in 1966. In the following years, Reagan gradually elevated Clark to a position on California's Supreme Court. Donald Wright, then Chief Justice of that court and a Reagan appointee as well, said that Clark was "not qualified by education, training or experience" to serve on the state's highest bench...
Yolande Betbeze (1951) recalled to Miss America Chronicler Frank Deford just how silly the year could become. She was sent to Paris with a vial of water from the Hudson River. To symbolize Franco-American friendship, she was to pour it into the Seine. She remembered that "all the damn water ran out of the vial on the plane over, and I had to refill it with water from the faucet in my hotel...
...enough, spotlighting the young doctor Eduardo Plarr (Richard Gere), as he struts his way through a small Argentine town near the Paraguay border. The handsome drifter, Plarr is half English, half Paraguyan and not quite anything. Although he'd rather keep to himself, he gets thrown into an inadvertant friendship with the English consul Charlie Fortnum (Michael Caine), and entangled by the demands of two old friends, now Paraguayan revolutionaries, who pressure him to help them kidnap a visiting American dignitary. Playing on Parr's apparent feeling for his father, a political prisoner in Paraguay, the two convince...