Word: interview
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DeButts is a large man with a relaxed, almost weary manner that reduces his tendency to lecture during the interview. He is clearly comfortable with the responsibilities of running AT&T, responsibilities that he believes extend to maintaining close personal contact with elected officials in Washington...
About halfway through the 90-minute interview in Tobruk, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was interrupted by a military aide who handed him a note. The revolutionary who heads Libya's government paused in his bitter denunciation of the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty just long enough to read the message. Then he smiled wanly, shook his head and waved the aide away with the back of his hand. The note informed Gaddafi that live TV coverage of the White House signing ceremony was beginning in the next room. Gaddafi clearly preferred to talk about the treaty rather than join his staff...
...interview, Gaddafi went into an adjoining room where a wide-screen color television was still carrying the live broadcast from the White House. Sadat was speaking. The colonel's entourage stepped back respectfully, leaving Gaddafi to stand alone in the middle of the room. He watched and listened for a few moments, then turned and walked out. On his face was the same wan smile as there had been earlier when he was given the note. It was a smile that connoted grim satisfaction, the "I-told-you-so" smile of someone who has just witnessed an ugly scene...
...majority of the P.O.W.s had apparently resisted the brainwashing. At one interview attended by the reporters and 14 senior Chinese army officers, a Vietnamese staff sergeant defiantly denounced "the reactionary Peking clique" and accused China of using "gas" against Vietnamese hiding in caves during the war. "What kind of gas?" asked a reporter. "Poison gas," came the angry and loud reply. At this point pandemonium broke out. A Chinese officer jumped up and bellowed something at the interpreter, who in turn shouted at the Vietnamese sergeant. The reporters were quickly ushered out of the room...
...average for humor, imagination and character. On the printed recommendation form, the low checks stick out from the high ones like a long, thin nose. "A rating of average usually means the guidance counselor thinks there is something seriously wrong," explains Admissions Officer Paulo de Oliveira. Mary's interview with a Brown alumnus was also lukewarm, and worse, she has written a "jock essay," i.e., a very short one. Rogers scrawls a Z, the code for rejection, on her folder...