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After half a block, there was indeed a bus stop. The KGB man leaped aboard a trolley as the door was starting to close. As it pulled away, the journalists caught a glimpse of the agent's face peering through a frost- rimmed window, pop-eyed with terror. He had been as frightened as the reporters...
Lowell and Wilson began arguing about Robert Frost, whom Wilson called a "dreadful old fake." So Lowell immediately telephoned Frost to invite him to the dinner too. "He told Mrs. Frost over the phone that I was a great admirer of Frost's." When the venerable poet arrived at the increasingly disastrous dinner, Lowell kept moving him from chair to chair, allegedly because Frost had a bad ear but effectively making "sustained conversation impossible...
Finally Lowell threw his harpoon. He "said to Frost that I wanted to ask him how his reputation had become so exaggerated." Wilson does not report how Frost responded to that -- perhaps he just gasped -- but adds that the victim "looked like a clever old elephant." And after dinner, Mrs. Lowell "went upstairs to her room and burst into tears...
...Mexico game and fish department officials believe the bears may be wandering farther afield this year in the wake of a late frost that killed off part of the berry crop they usually feed on. Hunters attribute the problem to overpopulation, the result of a shortened spring hunting season. Whatever the cause, scouts at Philmont are stuffing gunnysacks with food and other odorous goodies and hanging them on trees far from the tents. The name for these odd articles? Bear bags, of course...
...first of the 1,800 guests began taking their seats in the abbey. First Lady Nancy Reagan and Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher were in attendance, along with Opposition Leaders Neil Kinnock, David Owen and David Steel. So too were Actor Michael Caine, TV Host David Frost and Singer Elton John, sporting purple glasses and a ponytail...