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...enough for one person. As it was, he couldn't pitch his tent properly or use his stove. The tent fabric whipped back and forth in 35-40 m.p.h. winds and the Harvard senior occasionally worried about dehydration--since he couldn't use the stove, he was unable to melt snow for water...
...often intimidates his staff. Not long ago, he coldly dismissed an Assistant Secretary, a man whom he had talked into coming from California to join him, with barely a word. Stories about his superiority complex are numerous. "I saw him melt the stars off a four-star general, one at a time," remembers an aide with awe. The aide recalls something else: a Schlesinger mean streak that sometimes puts people into paralysis. One night a Schlesinger bodyguard noticed as he drove his boss to a formal dinner party that the Secretary had forgotten to put on his black...
...position [Bishop Abel] Muzerewa was in Rhodesia a year ago. Open that society up, and let them all talk freely--let Mandela come off Robben Island prison tomorrow and say that Buthelezi is a no-no, which he would--and Buthelezi's support would melt like the snow in summer...
Suppose it's raining and you're afraid to melt, or suppose you live in either Chapel Hill or Pittsburgh; then I guess you may as well tune in Channel 5 for the Pitt vs. UNC football battle. Undoubtedly some of you may stay home for the NBC baseball game of the week. Football starts at 1:30 and baseball at 2:00 for you shut...
SAFETY. Only a handful of hysterics believe that a conventional nuclear plant could explode in a mushroom cloud and wipe out a city. But many fear less dramatic accidents, including "melt down," which could occur if a reactor lost the water used to control the temperature of its core, ruptured and released radioactive gas and other material. Many also worry about radioactive contamination and fear that those living near nuclear plants may be subject to constant and eventually deadly exposure to radiation...