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...matters. For example, Haig is said to have regarded it as an affront that the helicopter carrying him and his wife Patricia from Heathrow Airport outside London to Windsor Castle was far behind the Reagans' chopper. According to White House aides, he upbraided Clark and Baker on the lawn at Windsor Castle, while Queen Elizabeth II was welcoming Reagan. "He went crazy," recalls one presidential assistant. Haig further annoyed Clark and Baker by theatening to abandon the trip and return to Washington...
Locals rent out their front yards for as much as $10 a day as park-and-party space. Spots go quickly. Liquor stores and Kentucky Fried Chicken stay open 24 hours a day, and people sit on lawn chairs, drunk, staring at the traffic streaming into town. On 30th St., across from one of the four gates leading into the raceway infield, you can walk the length of each block on the tops of mobile homes...
...especially hittable. By the sixth, Rappaport and co-Manager Mike Jones had to make room in the corner for Cutman Artie Curley, whose patchwork was inspected once by the physician at ringside. In the 90° desert heat, aggravated by the television lights, both men sprayed sweat like revolving lawn sprinklers. Holmes, 6 ft. 3 in. and 212½ lbs., and Cooney, 6 ft. 6 in. and 225½ lbs., looked equally fit. Cooney, who lad never before been required to answer a bell for a ninth round, displayed more stamina than even he expected. Afterward he admitted, "When...
...subway cars were to be put in service to ease traffic congestion. Churches and synagogues volunteered their pews and aisles as resting places for weary out-of-towners. The marchers planned to assemble near U.N. headquarters before walking more than two miles to Central Park's Great Lawn. There they were scheduled to hear speeches by Civil Rights Leader Coretta Scott King and New York Congressman Ted Weiss, and music by Jackson Browne, Linda Ronstadt and others...
Nixon knew enough about the rhythms of American opinion to predict, accurately, that his status would change. Indeed, his reputation has gained by a process of historical comparison and the sheer passage of time. Since he boarded his helicopter on the White House Lawn for the last time in August 1974, the impression of Watergate on the public mind has been blurred in several ways...