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Hugh Sidey loved ceremony but hated pretension. He had excellent perspective, but also had an eye for the telling detail: Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower, George H.W. Bush's penchant for e-mailing racy jokes to friends, Richard Nixon's love of classical music. He came to Washington in 1957 to cover the second Administration of Dwight Eisenhower for LIFE, switched to TIME to cover J.F.K. and reported on every President since then. He went to Dallas with J.F.K., to China with Nixon, to Moscow's Red Square with Ronald Reagan. Yet he returned as often as he could...
...Hugh was first and foremost a storyteller. He had, all through his long career, a great eye for the telling detail and the humorous, often incongruous anecdote that illuminated the humanity of the powerful. I loved watching him regale a group with tales of everything from Lyndon Johnson's hydra-headed shower to the old Yale baseball mitt that the first President Bush kept in his desk in the Oval Office. People-important people, ordinary people-liked to tell Hugh things. He was trustworthy and fair-minded, and they could sense that. For all his time in Washington, Hugh never...
...described the book as a "polemic." In his acknowledgments to The Plot he uses the word again, but this time it is even more applicable. Carefully researched, with introduction by Umberto Eco, reference notes and an afterward by a professor of political science, The Plot examines the history and hydra-like endurance of a repeatedly confirmed forgery that purports a worldwide Jewish conspiracy...
...expedition, the scientists disclosed last week in Marquette, Mich. Using a pair of tweezers, a biologist plucked a red spot from a stone that had been taken to the surface and placed it in a vial of water. Immediately the spot sprouted tentacles and unfolded into a hydra, a primitive invertebrate. "We were expecting that at these depths Lake Superior would be a biological desert," said Team Member John Krezoski, a biologist at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. "We're coming away dazed and astounded...
...Enemies of God and the Prophet"--is. Consequently, there can be no talk of the Geneva convention with his captors or of visits from the Red Cross to make sure he is being well treated or is even alive. He has simply been swallowed by some element of the hydra-headed insurgency--a missing man in the hands of a ghostly enemy...