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...work between 7:30 and 8 a.m. He puts in twelve hours and returns home with a full briefcase for postdinner consideration. He lives in a $750,000 town house near Washington's Embassy Row with his wife of 38 years, Jane; they have two children and two grandchildren. His tireless approach to studying defense problems has generally impressed Pentagon brass. Observes one senior official: "It's impossible to snow Cap." Says another: "He has been briefed and rebriefed and rebriefed, and each time his questions are more sharply focused." The Secretary is also praised for keeping his meetings...
...that he has had to divide it between two rooms. Says he: "Theater for the home is already here. A media room becomes a focal point for the family. You make your own popcorn, make sodas at the fountain, drinks, barbecue. I have over my sons and daughters and grandchildren. It's total information. It's total entertainment...
...delightful to me as the culture of the earth." Now he had the chance to prove it, every morning after breakfast. Dinner, served at 4, constituted the social hour. The patriot gathered his clan about him: his daughter Martha, who ran the household, plus a varying assortment of twelve grandchildren, as well as random aunts, sons-in-law and omnipresent house guests...
...Service, and his current project is a thorough study of 500 old people in the Oxford area. Though his picture of failing memory is stark, Rabbitt points out that the description hardly fits everyone: 5% to 10% of people in their 70s have memories just as reliable as their grandchildren...
...lower circles of show-business purgatory, they are chiseling epitaphs on epitaphs. They haunt cemeteries of frayed hopes and failed jokes; they rob graves of moldering bits of business; they read the requiem for popular entertainment. They are the children of television, the nephews and nieces of Vegas, the grandchildren of baggy-pants burlesquers-and they have turned on their elders with the fury of a patricidal Greek...