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...Bradlee, now the executive editor of the Washington Post, had been a Georgetown neighbor and particular chum of Kennedy's. Working then for Newsweek, he would sometimes be asked by his editors to find out for competitive reasons whose face would be on the cover of TIME the following week. Bradlee would ask the President, who would find out and call back. Bradlee got one exclusive story about Kennedy's past personal life, involving a false report of an earlier J.F.K. marriage, when the President agreed to let Bradlee secretly examine for 24 hours all the FBI files...
...when we Georgians descended on Washington and were overheard whispering at embassy receptions, state dinners and Cabinet meetings about suppliers, shipments and prospects for the year's crop. This attracted the attention of gossip columnists and other riffraff. Soon Vidalias were appearing on the shelves of the Georgetown Safeway, the supermarket of the elite where you're embarrassed to shop if you're not wearing tennis togs or jodhpurs, depending on the season...
According to the special counsel's report, Studds first invited the page to his Georgetown apartment, and then later that summer took the boy on a two-week trip to Portugal. The ex-page testified that he bore no ill will toward Studds...
...still other cases, "traditional labels got mixed up," says Professor Louis Michael Seidman of Georgetown University Law Center. "Decisions that looked liberal are really conservative." Nuclear energy opponents hailed a ruling that federal law permits states to block construction of new nuclear plants for economic reasons, but the opinion reflected a conservative reading of legislative intent. Congress, the court reasoned, did not mean to displace traditional state powers...
...basketball players were about the size of say, Republican Senator Bob Dole, 59, who in his days at the University of Kansas was a guard when the school won the Big Six championship. Today the shoes would set you back $40 plus, and college basketball stars look more like Georgetown University's 7-ft. center Pat Ewing, 20. For the past two summers, Ewing has been playing down his awesome height in an attempt to assume the disguise of a mild-mannered intern with Dole's Senate Finance Committee. Like other interns, the sophomore runs errands, helps...