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Ronald Reagan sought the seclusion of his hilltop home in Pacific Palisades to prepare for the rigors of the Republican Convention in Kansas City. For an actor-turned-politician, he is a surprisingly solitary figure, and the campaign has not changed him. Shy and reserved, he protects his privacy and that of his wife Nancy. Reagan is happiest puttering around his ranch in the Santa Ynez Mountains or reading political memos and position papers in his book-lined study in Los Angeles...
...water systems powered by horses, paddle wheels or even windmills, but they have usually proved inadequate. Boston and Philadelphia still depend on a random collection of pumps and wells, and only the small Moravian settlement of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, can boast an efficient system, which pumps spring water to a hilltop reservoir and then uses gravity to pipe it down through the town...
During the predawn hours of Feb. 18, 1970, on a jungle hilltop near the village of Chu Lai, South Viet Nam, an outgoing shell from a U.S. Army howitzer accidentally struck a treetop and exploded above the men of Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, Americal Division. Six were injured, two were killed. One of them was Michael Mullen, 25, the fifth generation of his family to farm the same fertile Iowa acreage. Michael was pierced by a small crescent of steel that tore a hole in his heart. He was sleeping and died instantly...
...rundown section of Atlanta's main drag, Peachtree Street. Visions of towers danced in his head. One by one they rose to form Peachtree Center-a complex of five office buildings, two hotels, a theater, restaurants and a shopping arcade. Atlantans who visit Portman's hilltop house now joke that he installed a picture window and then built the view to be seen through...
Improving Relations. The Soviet delegation is housed in a Draculesque castle on a forest-trimmed hilltop three miles north of Luxembourg City; the mission is protected by two stone walls equipped with television and other electronic surveillance devices. The embassy's first secretary and press officer, Anatoli Meshcheriakov, lamely justifies the mission's size on the ground that his government is interested in improving relations with Luxembourg...