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...comic, a crooked mortician, a couple of campy killers named Wint and Kidd, and two bikinied bodyguards who call themselves Bambi and Thumper. They strike a gymnastic blow for Women's Lib by effortlessly bouncing Bond, the sexist pig, off the four walls of a luxurious desert hideaway...
...time, Vermont was chic, and Alaska and Spain were favorite places to get away from it all. Nowadays those who really want to drop out head for Tobago, Sardinia and Pago Pago. One potential hideaway that until now has been completely ignored, however, is De Witt Isle, five miles off the southern coast of Tasmania* in the savage, blustery "Roaring Forties." Its assets are 4,000 acres of jagged rocks, tangled undergrowth and trees twisted and bent by the battering winds. Local fishermen call it the "Big Witch," and settlers have avoided it like the plague, but bandicoots (ratlike marsupials...
Meeting thrice weekly at 6 p.m. in the privacy of Nixon's hideaway in the Executive Office Building or in the White House Lincoln Sitting Room, Kissinger and the President plotted their elaborate exchange of signals with the Chinese. Kissinger concentrated on the broad strategy, while Nixon, says Kissinger, was "enormously ingenious" in originating about 70% of the secret ways of communicating with Peking. Although table tennis was hardly anticipated as the vehicle, Chou's willingness to invite Americans into China was not a surprise. After the table tennis team's visit, Nixon was ready with a response. He announced...
...obviously pleased with the E.O.B. hideaway and how it enables him to vary the mood and pace that he must maintain in the Oval Office. Walking back to the East Wing and the family living quarters, the President talks about his bowling (there are two automatic lanes in the E.O.B. basement). "I usually bowl for an hour about 8:30 or 9. I bowl 155 to 160. I have bowled a few games over 200. I could be a good bowler if I had the time...
...explosion occurred in the original section of the Capitol, begun during George Washington's term in office and restored after the building was burned by the British in 1814. Besides the damage to the men's room, the Senate barbershop and the back-corridor hideaway offices of Senators Everett Jordan, Caleb Boggs and John Sparkman were damaged. Architects and engineers will spend weeks searching for damage around the fragile west front of the building, which is already buttressed to support cracks in the sandstone facing...