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...marathon is a frightening contest of wits between Shaw and speeding cars and trucks. On back roads, under a sultry sun, he frequently got enmired in melting tar. Also, everywhere, there are dogs, yelping and nipping at the rolling hero as if he were absconding with the Alpo. He carries a rosary in his left pocket. "I do pray a lot when I'm out there on the highways," he says. "Anything can happen out there." Vehicles are continually bearing down on him, and eluding them requires a special dexterity and alertness. Says Shaw: "Anyone who thinks...
Three times during the course of the marathon negotiations, U.S. officials disclosed, the shuttle talks wobbled on the verge of collapse. The first occasion was on Saturday, May 18, when Kissinger was attempting to work out lines of disengagement. Momentarily convinced that the task was hopeless, he ordered his entourage of 62 aides, security men and newspeople to board the U.S. Air Force Boeing 707 in preparation for a flight from Jerusalem to Cairo. But the Secretary flew back by way of Damascus for one final talk with Assad, who suddenly agreed to Kissinger's "blue line" demarking the cease...
...Henry Kissinger's Middle East marathon was a grueling chore for him, it was also something less than a honeymoon for his new wife Nancy. Like her husband, she was constantly shadowed by a hovering clutch of Secret Service men on the breathless course from Algeria to Egypt to Jordan, and back and forth between Syria and Israel. One of the agents even swam parallel with her, stroke for stroke, when she came down to the pool from the sixth-floor apartment that she and her husband occupied at Jerusalem's King David Hotel...
Some venturesome souls achieve fame by scaling the world's highest peaks or plumbing the oceans' deepest bottoms. Their feats faithfully find their way into the Guinness Book of World Records, as do the odysseys of marathon smoke-ring blowers, balloonists, goldfish swallowers, grape eaters, yo-yo spinners, Scrabble players, prune devourers, face slappers, Pogo-stick jumpers, leapfroggers, barrel jumpers, needle threaders and record breakers in 10,000 other Record-worthy categories. For the past two weeks, in a guerrilla assault on Guinness, 200 young Californians assembled in Los Angeles to topple records or immortalize themselves...
Chautauqua Troupers. The transcripts posed a different problem for TV and radio. The text seemed to offer little chance for visual excitement, while its sheer bulk prohibited complete on-the-air coverage (some noncommercial radio stations across the country have been staging marathon readings, however). By Tuesday evening, just hours after the release, all three networks had produced sharp analyses of key presidential conversations, particularly the March 21 meeting between Nixon and Dean...