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Reagan, of course, had planned it that way-or so claimed his detractors. After all, he dined with Yaleman William F. Buckley Jr. Unbaitable and well read in his homework, Reagan fielded questions with aplomb and wit. Asked whether he felt homosexuals had any place in government, he drawled: "Well, perhaps in the Department of Parks and Recreation." Queried more querulously about Selective Service Director Lewis Hershey's suggestion that draft dissenters be reclassified, Reagan admitted that "emotionally I could go along with him" but "intellectually I realize we can't make military service punitive." The anti-Johsonian...
...soon getting on famously with both. The reputed intellectual lightweight, who was once expelled by Harvard because of hanky-panky on an examination, turned out to be a glutton for legislative homework. The big (6 ft. 2 in.), brown-haired freshman proved agreeably reticent on the floor and eager to develop good working relationships with such crusty barons as Mississippi's James Eastland, chairman of the Judiciary Committee. In two years, Kennedy was chairman of Judiciary's Special Subcommittee on Refugees and Escapees...
...account of cryptography and the security agency's role yet published. A tribute to Kahn's thoroughness-he took six years to write the book-is that NSA officials have been astounded by his knowledge of the agency's operations. "He's certainly done his homework," said one awed expert. Foggy Bottom and intelligence types, who have made the book a bestseller in Georgetown bookstores, have only one real complaint: it costs...
Boston's heroes immediately began plotting revenge. Soon after the game, Fenway Park was the scene of a vignette that would have brightened the eyes of any mother whose kiddies hate their homework. While most of the other players were sipping beer in the locker room, there in the batting cage stood Boston's idol, the man they call Yaz-Tremendouski, taking batting practice, while Coach Bobby Doerr called "Keep your hands high! Quick, now! Snap those wrists!" For 30 minutes it continued before Yaztrzemski was sat isfied. "Tomorrow," he said, "I'm gonna get three hits...
...touring Governors spent only 31 days in Viet Nam, were exposed to formal briefings for only a few hours. (Oddly enough, one of the two State Department escorts for the tour was Jonathan Moore, now Romney's foreign policy adviser.) The fact is that Romney had done no homework on Viet Nam be fore his arrival there; he conceded that he had never read a book about the country. If he was really brainwashed, suggested one correspondent who covered the tour, it could have been because he brought so light a load to the Laundromat...