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Extra Kilometers. Meanwhile, Sadat appeared in Cairo in field marshal's uniform to hold a press conference for 350 Egyptian and foreign correspondents gathered to report the war. In a remarkably relaxed and genial mood,* he gave one reason why he accepted the ceasefire: "I would not fight the United States of America. I fought Israel for eleven days. They would have run out of ammunition in two [more] days. I am not ready to fight the U.S." Although he criticized Washington for giving aid to Israel, Sadat praised the U.S. for taking a "constructive position" on peace negotiations...
...plump, genial figure with the trademark family nose. Don Nixon is a businessman of varying interests who can win friends and influence people not by dropping a name but by bearing...
...genial man with a large pipe who liked to gather with friends and translate Icelandic sagas, Tolkien bore all this stoically. He worked away at other books (Silmarillion and Akallabeth, tales about the creation and early history of Middle-earth, to be published posthumously). But he did point out that literal-minded folk who object to fairy stories as escapist mistake the wartime escape of the deserter (bad) for the wartime escape of the prisoner (necessary and good). Fairy tales represent the latter, Tolkien continued, and correspond to the primordial human desire-in a world of poverty, injustice and death...
...Scapegrace's editor), this yarn is a thorough, almost scholarly pastiche of Victorian lingo and manners. It fairly reeks of historical authenticity-and of blood-for Flashman, in his early 30s, is still his old bully self, a lucky coward and a genial sadist...
Last week Melvin Laird, the new White House domestic affairs adviser, told the Washington Post that Ziegler might be replaced altogether as principal spokesman. That would mean more exposure -and heat - for Deputy Press Secretary Gerald Warren, 42, a genial sort who seems to have won the season's most dubious assignment. "This White House," says Victor Gold, formerly Spiro Agnew's press secretary, "could make Saul of Tarsus look like an idiot in two days, with the things they give their spokesmen...