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...asked Scott Meredith, who is both Mailer's and Abbott's literary agent. "Every conversation I had with Jack, we talked about the future. Everything was ahead of him." John Dockendorff, director of the halfway house, was "absolutely baffled how Jack got the knife and how he hid it." Abbott had been "cooperative" and had even appeared for one of the attendance checks after the murder, before vanishing into the streets...
...threw me against a concrete railing," she said. The entire crash sequence took only 15 seconds. Edgarton, above the lobby and off to one side, had his back turned when the bridges crashed. Instead of seeing the havoc, he saw the startled expressions of the witnesses. Said he: "People hid their faces and turned away...
Strange things showed up. Subcommittees dominated by special interests issued lopsided reports that hid their prejudices behind clouds of turgid prose. They were, concluded Stockman, designed to discourage understanding. The cargo preference bill report in 1974 was a panegyric to the glories of forcing more oil imports into American ships. The inflationary impact from the higher rates was largely an untold story. Stockman unraveled it and alerted the Republicans. Though the bill passed, President Ford killed it with a pocket veto...
...visitor knows this. Still, the Spruce Goose is a surprise. The mind is ready for a ponderous bad joke. The funny name suggests this. So does the knowledge that for more than three decades Hughes hid the enormous wooden flying boat, with its 320-ft. wingspan (it is the largest plane ever built), behind security so tight that some of his hangar maintenance men never got to see the aircraft. The big hangar itself, a cantilevered, air-conditioned marvel on Terminal Island at Long Beach, Calif., is being demolished now, sold off by what is left of Hughes' Summa...
Temporarily frustrated when the president jumped into an elevator and rushed into his fourth-floor office, a group of students followed in other elevators. As Mackey hid inside, the demonstrators continued their verbal assault in the hall and pasted "Mackey Mouse" stickers on the walls. Minutes later, someone spied the president escaping out a rear exit, and the crowd followed him outside the building, where an unmarked police car rescued him and sped away...