Word: golde
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...large man but a nimble first baseman in his 13 years in the major leagues, White seven times won the Gold Glove, which signifies pre-eminence at a position. In his happiest period, from 1959 through 1965 with the St. Louis Cardinals, he hit as much as .324 and regularly managed 20 home runs and 100 runs batted...
...completely free hand. George Bush says he "loves the foreign policy aspects" of his job, and Bush, obviously, is the boss. But the two men have a unique relationship. "They are as close to being equals as any President and a subordinate have ever been," says writer Victor Gold, who has been close to both of them for two decades. Baker may not be Deputy President or Prime Minister, but at the very least, he is first among equals...
...successful tennis duo at the posh Houston Country Club, and when Bush ran unsuccessfully for Congress, Baker's first wife, Mary Stuart, was an around-the-clock volunteer. Later, when Mary Stuart lay dying of cancer in 1970, George and Barbara Bush spent hours at the hospital. Says Vic Gold: "There is just no way to exaggerate the bond created during a crisis like that...
...Gold notes something else about the Baker method. "Bush is not manageable in the ordinary sense," says Gold. "You have to be extremely tactful to get him to go along with something. He likes his prerogatives. So down in Houston, Jimmy had a bunch of us there who agreed with him about George's dropping out. He didn't need us there, but spreading the burden was important for Jimmy's continuing relationship with George...
...this story in the chapter called "Triumphant Returns," Harvard Co-Captain David Berkoff completed yesterday at Blodgett Pool for the first time since his gold-medal performance in the 1988 Seoul Olympics, racing in the Crimson's dual meet against Cornell...