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...time. According to White House historian William Seale, people gathered at the Fountain Inn, a grand eating and drinking emporium in Georgetown. They shuffled down the dusty road to the White House site led by the Freemasons, who were followed by the federal district commissioners, and behind them came "gentlemen of the town and neighborhood" (as described in a Charleston, S.C., newspaper that provided the only written record of the event). There was a moving oration by the grand master; wet mortar was spread on a foundation block; a polished brass plate with the names of the dignitaries...
...events, which will be covered by an astounding 21,000 journalists. You can tell yourself you won't watch, but you will. Call it the Olympic spirit, call it the love of good television, call it being a sucker for a good race, game, match or fight. Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls--and the children we all become as we get lost in the spectacle--turn your attention to Sydney, where for 17 days this fall we will see one hell of a race. The human race...
...favorite were the two gentlemen standing among the trestles of a railroad bridge outside of Sabula, Iowa, who smiled and cheered when I confirmed that their railroad attendant shack had cable...
...thick blue vein down the side of his temple. The tufts of white hair around the back were inspired by photos of Sean Connery, among many others, while the sixtysomething scientist's aged pores and wrinkles have been drawn from thousands of images of lesser-known maturing gentlemen. Donald Sutherland got away lightly; all he had to provide was Sid's voice...
...communication lines and face issues, you can move on." Neil Koenig, a psychologist from California and author of You Can't Fire Me, I'm Your Father, has recently included among his clients a family-business owner who is 93, another who is 82. "Fifteen, 20 years ago, these gentlemen would not have talked to someone like me. They would have thought what I had to say was just a bunch of baloney...