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...handwritten letter of resignation to President Carter, Cyrus Vance declared: "I look with pride and satisfaction at the many actions and new directions which have marked our foreign policy under your leadership." Then he listed the accomplishments for which he wants to be remembered. Yet even that recitation -by which Vance meant to console both Carter and himself-has a melancholy ring. It is a list of what may well turn out to be pyrrhic victories, noble failures and unfinished business...
...honors he had been awarded as the father of 1 Soviet hydrogen bomb, including three orders of Hero of Socialist Labor, the U.S.S.R.'s highest civilian decoration. A stickler for legality, Sakharov coolly complained that Brezhnev's signature on the document had been typed and not handwritten Sakharov was told that he would be exiled to the city of Gorky (formerly Nizhni Novgorod) for "subversive activities," and then was allowed to phone his wife. Given two hours, Yelena Sakharov packed up a few clothes and her ailing husband's heart medicine. By nightfall, police had whisked...
Beyond the fact that much less communication is handwritten now than it was in the days of the quill pen, experts point to several causes of scriptural sloppiness. Some blame a spreading weakness of will. Says Sam Toombs, a Houston psychologist: "Bad handwriting is a way of saying something and taking it back at the same time. People scrawl signatures on material for which they don't want to be held responsible." Others cite the hurried nature of modern society, in which speed is given a higher priority than clarity. Pen makers decry poor instruction: while courses in calligraphy...
...pictures of himself and one of his wife Laura. The menu and program for a lavish dinner the Tennessee Army veterans held at the Palmer House and the entire seating plan. An 1868 reunion ribbon, some handwritten notes, two pieces of wartime paper money. One memento to his future heirs was sealed with red wax and carefully labeled: "Cigar given to John McNulta by General U.S. Grant, November 14, 1879, must not be opened for 100 years and then smoked by some one of the descendants or by some soldier who has rendered good service to his country...
...Wright agreed to co-author the book shortly after DeLorean left. Wright interviewed the executive at length, got DeLorean's personal papers and says that "anything of a substantive or controversial nature is either on tape or appears in John's handwritten notes. It's airtight." But DeLorean backed out of the project; he has started an auto plant in Northern Ireland and may want GM's help in securing parts and dealers. After years of frustration, Wright took out a $50,000 second mortgage on his house and published the book himself. The work...