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...laundry, while George-no one calls him Mr. Bush-lent me swim trunks and my choice of at least a dozen pairs of running shoes. All this on the day after the Nashua, N.H., debates, when his political fortunes were taking a nosedive." Barrett found Reagan a gracious host in his Pacific Pali sades, Calif, home, but characteristically controlled: "He says virtually the same thing in private as he does from the podium." Only through extended exposure to the candidate was Barrett able to penetrate the reserve. For example, Reagan talked candidly with Barrett last week about the abrupt firing...
...service to Islam became a main theme in Karmal's diplomatic overtures toward Iran. He fired off a telegram to "Gracious Brother, Most Reverend Imam," the Ayatullah Khomeini. Karmal's message almost reverently appealed for an Afghan-Iranian revolutionary entente based on "Islamic brotherhood" and a shared hostility toward "American world imperialism-the No. 1 irreconcilable enemy of all the people of the world." Karmal promised that his government "will never allow anybody to use our soil as a base against Islamic revolution in Iran"-adding that "we expect our Iranian brethren to resume a reciprocal stance...
When Emma Jane Stockton was a little girl, she looked forward eagerly to spending Christmas holidays with her grandparents in Trenton, N.J. They lived in a mansion called Ivy Tower that was on a charming street in New Jersey's bustling capital. She remembered the gracious way of life, and although E.J., as her friends called her, lived with her parents in nearby Yardley, Pa., she always considered Trenton her home...
...documentary, The War at Home, produced and directed by Glenn Silber and Barry A. Brown, brilliantly reveals just what happened on Madison's tree-lined avenues and gracious hill-top campus. The film traces the development of the anti-war movement at the University of Wisconsin from the earliest demonstrations in 1963 to the fall of Saigon in 1975. Using rare, archival film obtained from the State Historical Society and authentic US Army combat footage, Silber and Brown carefully parallel the growth of the anti-war movement with the escalation of American involvement in Viet Nam, from the sparsely attended...
Larsen was a gracious, inquisitive and gentle man who accommodated himself to Luce's abrupt and sometimes difficult style. Said Time Inc. Chairman Andrew Heiskell: "Roy fitted himself to Luce's personality and complemented it totally...