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...after he returned to New York, he learned that a woman who had served in the U.S.O. on Adak was living in Manhattan. He asked her out for dinner and nightclubbing. They began the evening in midtown and drank their way to Harlem. As Hammett got drunker, he became louder, ruder, and more talkative. Finally, at nearly five in the morning, his date had had enough, and she asked him to call her a cab so she could go home. When he refused, she hailed a cab herself. As she was entering the - car, Hammett begged her 'Please...
...with the finesse of an ambassador; he concluded that his foreign policy was in pretty good shape but admitted that his Washington policy needed some repairs. He sees the Soviets as even more concerned than the U.S. about nuclear war. The creaking and groaning heard round the world (nowhere louder than in Washington) as the U.S. changes its attitude about the use of power were to be expected. Beneath the grumbling, Haig claims, there is solid respect, if not endorsement for American policy, particularly from China, which is a force to be used cautiously in our efforts to discourage more...
...more than $500,000 a year in lieu of taxes. (It is charged substantially more for water, sewer hook-ups, and similar services.) Politicians have grumbled about that fact for years, but in the wake of the massive tax cuts stemming from Proposition 2 1/2, their protests are getting louder, A bill filed with the state legislature this year sought to end exemptions for universities from the property tax; though it was given little chance of passage, it was enough to draw President Bok to Beacon Hill, where he argued forcefully that taxes would force the closing of dozens...
...rolling along with the sounds is also a form of aural self-defense for some, such as New York TV Producer Anthony Payne, 34. "There are buses, airplanes, sirens," says Payne. "You have to replace them with something louder, by force-feeding your own sounds into your ears." Manhattan Computer Executive Michael Starr, 43, suggests that the private concert "is a great way of snubbing the world. Can you imagine if Philip Roth had had one growing up? He'd never have written Portnoy's Complaint. He never would have heard the nagging...
...finally learned not to rely on the media, which has a liberal bias anyway. So we bypass them by mail and TV and go directly to the voters. Democrats don't like that, and they're crying." Viguerie predicts the Democratic screams are going to got louder. "Jesse has an army out there," he says. "and he talks to them almost weekly by mail. We're years ahead of the Democrats in the technology." So powerful is Helms' club back home that the North Carolina Republican Party has become a weak appendage...