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...participants returned to the conference room to recalculate the interest owed the Iranians. Bank of America, which held the largest amount of Iranian funds, was arguing the hardest. Their work was somewhat slowed because few of the bankers had brought calculators, and some ended up doing their math longhand. Eventually, the bankers agreed to pay almost 17% annual interest. They were generally pleased when they concluded work...
...lone clear message conveyed by his prose--only once does he refer to himself as "an underdeveloped novelist with an overdeveloped typewriter." Yet he does take the poor machine out of it agony for the last half of the epilogue; he writes the "mystery of love" section in longhand. At least that last desperate gesture lends credence to his first sentence--emphatically, it couldn't be done...
Finally, on Monday, April 21, Vance retreated to his private office on the seventh floor of the State Department building to write out a letter of resignation in longhand on official stationery. He asked his wife Grace to drive in from their home to lunch with him, and he read her the letter. After making a few changes, he carefully copied it over in his tight, slanting script. That afternoon?as the C-130s were being readied and the Nimitz was steaming into position?Vance delivered the message to Carter in an eight-minute private session in the White House...
During his travels in America, John Paul delivered 49 speeches, prayers, greetings and homilies. The major speeches he wrote himself, in longhand, always in Polish, sometimes breaking into song as he worked. Once aides translated the texts into English he revised the speeches again before delivery. The style was consistently genial and polite, often rhetorical, at times passionate, invariably authoritative. As these excerpts show, the Pope always sounded as if he meant exactly what he said...
Thomas was at Yale at the time and maintained a house in Woods Hole, Mass., where he and his wife retreated on weekends. He used the driving time from New Haven to consider ideas; then he spent the weekends writing his column longhand on ruled pads, finishing it by the time he was ready to drive home on Sunday night. "I wrote three or four pieces this way," says Thomas. "Then I called Ingelfinger and told him that I thought I had done enough. He said that he wanted me to continue and persuaded me that I should...