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...electrifying: he often seems to be moving and speaking in slow motion. Unlike many men in public life, he looks his age, a weathered 67. His sense of humor is as dry as a prairie breeze. In the operating room of a hospital in the one- stoplight town of Hale Center, he listens to a doctor describe the type of anesthesia used there. "Most of this crowd," he says, casting a grave look at the press corps, "thinks I'm asleep already...
...write, as you feel the impulse -- but hold me long & close in your thoughts. I shall take up so little room, & it's only there that I'm happy!" She was then internationally renowned but also trapped in a long, misbegotten marriage to / Edward R. (Teddy) Wharton, a hale fellow and manic-depressive whom her good friend Henry James suspected of being "cerebrally compromised." On the other hand, the Harvard-educated Fullerton, some three years her junior, had drifted into his 40s without accomplishing much of anything except a string of ex- lovers, male and female. Yet she listened with...
...morning of the New York primary, Michael Dukakis flew back to Boston to pursue his favorite pastime: governing Massachusetts. As others sought out early exit-poll results, the Governor spent nearly two hours in his Beacon Hill office conferring with Top Advisers Hale Champion and John DeVillars. The gravity of the moment, however, was not lost on DeVillars, who was once Dukakis' student at Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. DeVillars later marveled at the incongruity of discussing health insurance with Dukakis as it "dawns on you that a year from now this man may be sitting in the Oval...
...they are natural to Jesse Jackson. But in fairness, it must be said that the reality of a Dukakis presidency would be more uplifting than its anticipation. As a pragmatic problem solver, Dukakis is often at his best reacting decisively rather than initiating boldly. "Michael likes to make decisions," Hale Champion, the Governor's chief of staff, has said. "He never stalls to get irrelevant information. His basic impulse is to get on with things...
...Brountas. As campaign chairman, Brountas, 56, is a lot like the candidate, always erring on the side of caution. But when staffers want to make a special appeal to Dukakis, they usually do it through his old friend. Should Dukakis win in the fall, Brountas, a senior partner at Hale and Dorr, would be a likely candidate for Attorney General...