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...downstage. The set also captures the play's ambiguity of place and time, for the background suggests ancient Greece on one side (Ionic columns), Elizabethan England on the other (attractive filigree) and in the middle, where there is a long dark hallway draped with curtains of a fleur-de-lis pattern, an unspecified land of mystery and romance...
During most of his stay at San Clemente in the past two weeks, Nixon vas closeted with his speechwriters and lis top domestic policy adviser, John Ehrlichman, working over rough drafts of the speech and receiving new ideas channeled west from Washington. Over he weekend, he headed for the presidential retreat at Camp David to continue the winnowing and polishing...
...antique grime cherished from the old Bick era. A dark blue rug covers the ungodly Bick tile, and a double set of glass doors throws up a space-lock between the dining room and the filthy sidewalk ecology outside. The fancy Shakespearean name and the fleur-de-lis table mats won't fool too many patrons: this place is about as Elizabethan as Dayton, Ohio...
Planning on last week's operation started in late July, with Habash and lis top lieutenant, Dr. Wadi Haddad, is the principal architects. They picked New York-bound flights and a weekend target date to ensure that many of their hostages would be vacationing American civilians. Fewer than half a dozen of the Popular Front's ranking leaders knew all the details, and individual skyjacking teams, who had been instructed in the rudiments of navigation and flight procedures, were not aware of one another's existence...
...where he dictates to his secretary for three to four hours. Weather permitting, he walks, at 11 each morning, around his property, occasionally carrying bread crumbs for his birds and chickens. He inspects his delicately manicured lawn and the garden, one segment of which forms a floral fleur-de-lis, the symbol of French royalty. After 40 minutes, the general is back at his desk in his book-lined study. As he edits manuscripts, he extends his right index finger along the contoured body of the fountain pen to its tip. To his right is an old-fashioned inkwell from...