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...aground is a mystery. The accident occurred in extremely calm waters, and the captain, Joe Hazlewood, had been plying the area for a dozen years. Frank Iarossi, president of Exxon Shipping Co., said the tanker was a mile off course even though its navigational systems were working. Dan Lawn, spokesman for the Alaska department of environmental conservation, said the captain's effort to steer the Exxon Valdez back into the narrow shipping lane was like "trying to park a Cadillac in a Volkswagen spot...
...something I did when the lights were on in the playground just because I liked it." He was Lew Alcindor then, a bookish Harlem Catholic constructed of high-tension wires connected at right angles. He developed a hopping hook shot, calling to mind a praying mantis assembling a foldout lawn chair, out of early necessity: all his straightforward attempts were being blocked. He made a style of coming at things from a different angle...
...course, had a raft of contingency plans in case of a nuclear attack. One called for the emergency evacuation by helicopter, from the South Lawn, of the President and the 50 or so people who made up the heart of the Government. They were to be whisked to the Blue Ridge Mountains and secreted in a command post under 600 ft. of stone, from there to run the war and the nation. Some newsmen were to be included to send out dispatches on presidential decisions, should any printing presses or broadcast facilities be left standing. We were ordered to stay...
When the crisis had passed, a Kennedy insider told the following story: When the President and his inner circle were briefed on the plans to hurry to the South Lawn for the helicopter lift, one aide was deeply troubled. This fellow went to the President and told Kennedy that he did not plan to leave the White House and his family, attack or not. Kennedy reportedly looked up with that wry smile on his face and said, "That's O.K. Neither do I. I'm staying right here." So much for the doomsday scenario...
...Muttering among camera operators, early morning on the South Lawn, waiting for some sign of life in the Bush White House: "Where are all those kids and dogs? Get 'em out here. We gotta have some action." Warning: if kids are used to get a President elected, he'd better keep them around for slow news days. Suggestion: an "urchin mobile," first discovered in China by Richard Nixon in 1972, a van that carries cute kids from camera position to camera position with changes of sweaters, hair ribbons and jump ropes inside...