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Jackson knows how to keep clear of all of baseball when he wishes. In fact, his life is so busy off the field that he says, only half in jest, "I play baseball as a sideline." A typical day off begins in midmorning when Jackson climbs out of bed in his penthouse apartment overlooking downtown Oakland. (Later this year he will move into an $85,000 condominium in the Berkeley Hills.) Once he has selected the day's outfit from three oversized closets that contain 100 shirts and pairs of pants, twelve leather jackets ("I've got every...
...argument is often heard from high-powered lobbyists in Washington -and not in jest-that the best way to stay warm this winter would be to burn the environmental protection laws. Under those laws, particularly the Clean Air Act, new curbs were put on emissions from factories and power plants: cities were told to improve air quality; the automakers had to launch a $1 billion program to clean up auto exhausts. When the Arab oil embargo hit, lobbyists for the auto, oil, coal and other industries stepped up their drives to ease the laws, citing the need to save...
...people seized the Beaver II - with the permission of the Boston authorities - and threw empty oil drums into the harbor to protest the petroleum industry's failure to head off the fuel crisis. As a final ingredient in the Watergate-laden atmosphere, many Bostonians noted only half in jest that the site of the original tea party has now been filled in. It is occupied by the head quarters of the Sheraton hotel chain, a division of ITT, a company that has been deeply implicated in the Administration scandals...
...next day, Spiro's longest day, included a luncheon meeting of New York builders. Even on the brink of ruin, Agnew could not resist opening with the bitter jest that he had considered holding a "provocative discussion on the relationship of architects and engineers to the political fund-raising process." Later in the afternoon Spiro Agnew met as Vice President with President Nixon for the last time. For 40 minutes, the two men were alone in the Oval Office, sitting in chairs beside the fireplace beneath a painting of George Washington. When they were done talking about the bargain...
...Jest ain't what she should be when you're not here...