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DIED. Christopher George, 54, jut-jawed actor who played men of action in the TV series The Rat Patrol and The Immortal; after a heart attack; in Los Angeles...
...counting houses, which dates from 1811 and shows off the simple charm of the period. The Museum Block, in contrast, includes 14 buildings in a medley of styles, all exuberantly restored. By next summer "Pier 17 Pavilion" will be installed. The Victorian-style steel-and-glass shopping arcade will jut into the East River alongside the four-masted sailing ship Peking and other craft in the museum's flotilla. Also to come are more outdoor cafés, commercial offices and an apartment house...
...sober-sounding topics, like the one argued in the fifth round: "Armed neutrality is ineffectual at best." Off-the-cuff military analyses? No, Swarthmore's Grant Oliphant and Chris DeMoulin want to argue pop psychology. Speaking first, Oliphant launches an elaborate attack on stoicism, celibacy, alienation and the jut-jawed manner of one of his tournament hosts. Oliphant's rhetorical ripostes ("Will we sentence ourselves to joyless purgatory?") and practiced voice glow with persuasive charm...
Haig got on well with Mubarak. Both are military men, jut-jawed and plainspoken. At the end of the talks in Cairo's baroque Uruba Palace, Mubarak shook hands with Haig and said simply, "Well, I think we are finished." Haig grinned jauntily and replied, "No, see you in Washington." Mubarak arrives in the U.S. for a state visit on Feb. 2, though he may in fact see Haig again in Cairo a few days earlier. Ali assured reporters that Egypt welcomed Haig's participation in the peace process and promised to "intensify" the autonomy negotiations...
Buckley embroiders this story with subplots and uneven characterizations of such personages as Allen Dulles, J. Edgar Hoover, Dean Acheson, Nikita Khrushchev and Charles de Gaulle. The results are mixed. The author's portrait of Hoover, for example, seems a weak parody of old newsweeklies: "Jut-jawed, beefy, all business...