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...towering pinnacle of bridge success, Charlie Goren has plenty to keep him busy, aside from playing bridge: his syndicated column (he writes it himself, in longhand), a regular department in SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, trips abroad as a sort of U.S. ambassador to overseas bridgedom, 10,000 letters a year from bridge fans (many include ticklish bridge problems, but with the help of his staff he answers them all), and a venture called Goren Enterprises, which licenses manufacture of such items as a card-table cover with rules of the game printed on it and cocktail napkins decorated with cartoons and useful...
...closed-circuit TV screens, the crewmen could see an upward-pointed camera-eye view of an ice pack, lit up by the Arctic's 24-hour-a-day sunlight, like a translucent cloud racing by. In his cabin, a slim U.S. Navy commander wrote out in longhand a couple of messages-one addressed to President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the White House, Washington, the other to his crew. His ship, he wrote in the crew's message, was about to achieve "goals long sought by those who sail the seas...
...potential though difficult underwater commercial trade route that remakes the map of the world. And as Anderson flew on from Washington at week's end to reboard Nautilus and take her into harbor at Portland, England, he left behind with President Eisenhower the letter he had written in longhand at the big moment. "Dear Mr. President," it read. "I hope, sir, that you will accept this letter as a memento of a voyage of importance to the United States. Signed at the North Pole at 2315 EDST...
Pursuing his own line toward Khrushchev, De Gaulle wrote his reply in longhand, had it typed, then carefully corrected it in his own hand. He accepted the idea of a summit session in principle, but pointed out that such a conference could not "succeed except in an atmosphere of objectivity and serenity." Citing blustering passages in Khrushchev's invitation, he asked: "Why compare [the U.S.-British intervention] with the aggression once committed by Hitler against Poland? Hitler, alas, was not alone...
...Tower, Herbert Hoover keeps busy up to 16 hours a day, keeps two of his three fulltime secretaries on hand seven days a week. He has just published a thoughtful biography and tribute to his onetime chief, The Ordeal of Woodrow Wilson (TIME, April 28), is now working in longhand on a series of five other books called Forty Years of Fighting Famine...