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...courthouse has, like the town, achieved an overcharged notoriety. For starters there is a prize surname: Herbert ("Peter") Pulitzer Jr., 52, who filed suit to dissolve his six-year marriage to the former Roxanne Dixon, nee Ulrich. Peter is one of Newspaper Publisher Joseph Pulitzer's flock of grandchildren. He has money and local roots old and deep enough to prompt invitations to the oligarchs' parties and all the charity balls. Then there are the grounds for the divorce action. So far Pulitzer or his witnesses have testified that Roxanne, 31, went to bed with a local real...
Earlier, my secretary, Susan Clough, had brought me some photographs of Begin, Sadat and me. They had already been signed by Sadat, and Begin had requested that I autograph them for his grandchildren. Knowing the trouble we were in with the Israelis, Susan suggested that she go and get the names of the grandchildren, so that I could personalize each picture. I did this, and walked over to Begin's cabin with them. He was sitting on the front porch, very distraught and nervous because the talks had finally broken down at the last minute...
...photograph, repeating the name of each grandchild. His lips trembled, and tears welled up in his eyes. He told me a little about each child and especially about the one who seemed to be his favorite. We were both emotional as we talked quietly for a few minutes about grandchildren and about...
...process is a little like the custom of nominating obscure favorite sons at political conventions, not because they have any chance of being nominated or elected. God forbid. It is just nice to hear the name boom in the hall, to have the transient thrill, something to tell the grandchildren. The mere proposal of a constitutional amendment amounts to national billboarding for an idea, and perhaps even a way of drawing the poison out of certain issues by bringing them briefly into the hypothetical presence of the sacred text...
...people in the park have hope, at least while they are singing. The hopes lies in their fellowship, a solidarity among devout elderly ladies and their irreverent grandchildren not choreographed for 700,000 living rooms. The food that the minister has located probably will not feed all the hungry listening in the park. But its presence shows that he feels that the church must provide for the community. Though strangers perhaps to each other, the people are together, behind the chain-link fence...