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...principal item of business was tying up some odds and ends on President Reagan's proposal for a sharp reduction in strategic nuclear arms. Several of the participants noted that there was something unusual about the meeting: it was not contentious. And that, they realized, was because Secretary of State Alexander Haig, even while arguing his department's position forcefully, seemed uncharacteristically at ease. Instead of thumping the table to emphasize his feelings, he viewed the problem with almost philosophical detachment. When a presidential decision went against him, he actually seemed to accept defeat gracefully...
...rummages in closets for these revelations. Kierkegaard's fancy about being a police spy is a dark, shiny little item: a melancholic's impulse toward sneaking omnipotence, the intellectual furtively collaborating with state power, committing sins of betrayal in police stations in the middle of the night. It is not far from another intellectual's fantasy: Norman Mailer once proposed that Eugene McCarthy, the dreamboat of the late '60s moderate left, might have made an ideal director of the FBI. McCarthy agreed. But of course, McCarthy had a sardonic genius for doubling back upon his public...
Other rare treats include one of Charley Finley's orange baseballs, autographed by Vida Blue and an autographed glossy of Reggie Jackson in an Orioles uniform an item the itinerant slugger himself lacked until Kelly gave some...
...complete set of Fleer Ted Williams cards, all autographed highlights the three wall shrine dotted with framed newspapers and magazine covers marking milestones in the Splendid Splinter's career. Perhaps the most valuable item is Ted Williams official birth certificate, which Kelly secured through "intricate methods." Williams himself plans to stop in later this summer. Kelly says, because among other things, be wants to see the clock with his portrait on it. "It's one of the things he's never seen." Kelly explains...
...volleys into the air. "It sounded like there was a huge demonstration approaching the embassy and people were firing volleys into the air [in an unsuccessful attempt] to hold them off," Swift remembers. "We didn't think we'd make it through that one. It was a tiny news item in papers over here--what you didn't know was that it was one block away...