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...Dillon is a pragmatic, liberal Republican who holds down one of the most sensitive jobs in a Democratic Administration (not all Republicans can forgive him that). He can coldly and calmly approve a $6 billion deficit for the nation; he can also fret over the health of the honey locust trees near his home. Steeled in Wall Street's rough and tumble, Dillon preserves a diffident professorial manner, and revels in tastes that few of his countrymen share: vintage wines. Savile Row suits (from Henry Poole & Co.). fine paintings and finer porcelain...
...lunch while standing, thinks she looks a fright, watches her weight (periodically), jabbers over the short-distance telephone with the next-door neighbor. She runs a worn track to the front door, buys more Girl Scout cookies and raffle tickets than she thinks she should, cringes from the suburban locust-the door-to-door salesman who peddles everything from storm windows to potato chips, fire-alarm systems to vacuum cleaners, diaper sendee to magazine subscriptions. She keeps the checkbook, frets for the day that her husband's next raise will top the flood of monthly bills (it never will...
...could make a basketball look like a BB shot in his vast paws), Martin began pole vaulting on a dare. Challenged by seventh-grade friends to enter the event in a school meet, Martin did-"and I was terrible." Humiliated, he walked into the woods, cut down a young locust tree and, using it as a pole, began practicing...
...thus insulated from the Nasser virus. The Soviet Union, through pudgy Ambassador Nikolai Pegov, has lately purred friendship and slyly supported Iran's claim to Britain's oil-rich Bahrein Island. The Soviet Union sent its dancers and acrobats, sponsored joint Russian-Iranian projects such as locust control on the border, even promised junketing President Kliment Voroshilov would come to Teheran next month in repayment for the Shah's 1956 visit to Moscow. But all Iranians remember Stalin's attempt to grab Azerbaijan in the north after World...
Little White School. Almond was born in Charlottesville on June 15, 1898, the second of the five children of a Southern Railway locomotive engineer who retired, after a 1901 head-on collision, to his 250-acre family farm in rolling Orange County. There, near the tiny village of Locust Grove on the Chancellorsville battlefield, just four miles from the Wilderness thicket where Stonewall Jackson was mortally wounded by his own men, Lindsay Almond grew up. Lindsay did farm chores, worked nights with his mother at the kitchen table, learned to read and write even before he trudged...